Businesses
- Lagardère Publishing
- Lagardère Active
- Lagardère Services
- Lagardère Sports
- EADS
Key dates 2008/2009
February Creation of Lagardère Entertainment, which brings together Lagardère Active’s audiovisual production and distribution activities, along with a new segment devoted to live events plus management of audiovisual rights.
March Lagardère Active Radio International (LARI) continues its growth in Poland with the launch of the country’s fi rst dance-music radio station: Planeta FM.
April Lagardère Active acquires the Massin Group, France’s leading publisher of interior design magazines with two publications: Art & Décoration and Maison & Travaux.
May Lagardère Active acquires 100% of the Psychologies Group, thereby boosting its position on the women’s, lifestyle, health and wellbeing segments with a worldwide brand.
May Launch of Femina, the Chinese edition of Version Femina.
June Didier Quillot, Chairman of Lagardère Active’s Management Board, announces the appointment of Alexandre Bompard as Managing Director of Europe 1 and Europe 1 Sport.
July ELLE launches Elle Mobile, the first premium mobile-communications website targeted at women, featuring an exclusive range of mobile services.
September Lagardère Active introduces Dekio, a search engine exclusively dedicated to interior decoration.
January 2009 Hachette Fujingaho and Sumitomo Corp. conclude an agreement with a view to creating a new business unit devoted to e-commerce within Hachette Fujingaho (HFG).
Leading positions
- No. 1 publisher of leisure and entertainment magazines worldwide.
- No. 1 publisher of general-audience magazines in terms of 2008 paid circulation in France.
- No. 1 group of private music radio stations in Russia, Poland, Romania and the Czech Republic.
- Leading player in the music-channel segment.
- No. 2 media-buying agency in France, with 130 media brands (including Lagardère’s own brands and those of outside publishers).
- No. 2 audiovisual production group in France (drama and comedy, studio-based shows and animation) and No. 1 in drama and comedy.
Key figures 2008
- 51% of sales generated internationally in 2008 (excluding regional daily press)
- More than 220 periodicals published worldwide
- Global presence in 45 countries
- 42 editions of ELLE magazine worldwide
- 900 million copies of periodicals sold annually, including 145 million copies by subscription
- 29 radio stations worldwide (with nearly 44 million daily listeners)
- 10 special-interest television channels worldwide
- 16 networked websites with traffic exceeding a million unique visitors
The group's key figures
The group's financial results demonstrate Lagardère's stability. Net sales, earnings before interest and tax, employees: access financial information about the group and its subsidiaries from the past two years.
The Group's brands
