Businesses
- Lagardère Publishing
- Lagardère Active
- Lagardère Services
- Lagardère Sports
- Highlights
- Activities
- Focus
- Press Releases
- EADS
Key dates 2008
January Acquisition of Upsolut.
February Acquisition of PrEvent.
March Sportfive signs a 15-year agreement with Turin’s Juventus.
April Sportfive signs a partnership agreement with Match Hospitality, becoming the latter’s exclusive European agent for the 2010 FIFA World Cup hospitality programme.
May Acquisition of World Sport Group.
June Launch of the first Transorientale rally raid from St. Petersburg to Beijing.
September Agreement between Lagardère Sports and the International Triathlon Union to organize and allocate a new worldwide series of triathlon events.
September PrEvent acquires a WTA (women’s tennis pro tour) license.
October Sportfive is awarded the Bundesliga (German Football League) TV rights for parts of the Asian and European markets.
Leading positions
- Sportfive’s rights portfolio represents more than 30 international federations. It has contracts with some 250 football clubs, and markets media rights for the principal European football leagues, with distributors in over 180 countries, and broadcast rights for such prestigious international events as the Euro 2008.
- IEC in Sports markets more than 250 European, American and Asian sporting events.
- Lagardère Sports has contractual agreements with four football federations: the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), African Football Confederation (CAF) and Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Key figures 2008
Consolidated sales of €444 million
- 79% sales are generated in Europe
- 86% sales are football-related
- 63% sales come from television production and media rights
Lagardère Sports has 645 employees
(excluding World Sport Group)
- 55% in Germany
- 22% in France
- 23% elsewhere in the world
Lagardère Sports is active in over 15 different sports including football (soccer), rugby, handball, basketball, cycling, volleyball, hockey, boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, biathlon, horseracing, ski-jumping and motor sports
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
