Businesses
- Lagardère Publishing
- Lagardère Active
- Lagardère Services
- Highlights
- Activities
- Focus
- Press Releases
- Lagardère Sports
- EADS
Key dates 2008
11 February Inauguration of the 100th Romanian retail outlet.
27 February Sale of 80.2% of Virgin'capital to Butler Capital Partners.
1st March Acquisition of a majority stake in Australia's Purely group.
21 March Aelia opens a 1,275-sq.m retail space in the duty-free zone of Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport.
12 April HDS Digital introduces the ‘Eco’ flat-rate subscription, which offers unlimited magazine downloads via Relay.com.
26 June Sanoma signs a long-term partnership with AMP.
5 August Aelia opens 12 new shops in terminal 2E of France’s Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport.
18 August The first retail outlet opens in Bulgaria.
3 September Acquisition of the Delstar company (airport retail sales; based in Phoenix, Arizona).
11 December Acquisition of News & Gift Shops International (40 US retail outlets).
Leading positions
- No. 1 national press distributor in the United States (Curtis Circulation Company), Belgium (AMP), French-speaking Switzerland (Naville), Spain (SGEL ) and Hungary (Lapker).
- No. 1 international press distributor in Belgium, Canada, Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic and French-speaking Switzerland.
Key figures 2008
- A unique network of 3,900 stores in 21 countries worldwide
- Over 50,000 press outlets in Europe and 180,000 in North America are supplied by Lagardère Services daily
- 1,300 stores under the Relay banner in 15 countries serve a million customers daily
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
