Le Groupe Espaces, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gesca Publishing Ltd., has been producing events since 1995. The list of events includes: the Montreal Outdoor Festival, Travel & Adventure Film Festival and the Quebec Tour of the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Le Groupe Espaces is also the editor of Espaces magazine - the largest media vehicle geared toward tourism,adventure and the outdoors in the province of Quebec - as well as Parabolik and Adventura magazines
and a collection of books. In the summer of 2009, it will be publishing the annual guide À la découverte des saveurs du Québec (Discovering the flavours of Quebec), with a press run of 500,000 copies.
As a communication group, Gesca publishes seven newspapers: La Presse, Le Soleil, Le Nouvelliste, Le Droit, La Tribune, Le Quotidien and La Voix de l'Est. Through its affiliate, Gesca Développement, the company produces television programs, including the Ricardo cooking show in both French and English, publishes books and specialty magazines and operates many websites (Cyberpresse.ca,
LaPresseAffaires.com, Technaute.com, MonCinema.ca, MonVolant.ca and MonToit.ca).
