About Lagardere

History

2003-2006

2003
  • Livre de Poche celebrates its 50th anniversary.
  • Lagardère puts all of its shareholdings in Renault up for sale.
    Death of Jean-Luc Lagardère and appointment of Arnaud Lagardère as managing partner of Lagardère SCA.
  • 3,000th issue of Elle.
  • Launch of the magazine Public.
  • Lagardère sells its automobile engineering activities to the Italian group Pininfarina.

2004
  • Lagardère acquires 40% of Editis (from Vivendi Universal Publishing).
  • Over five million copies of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, published by JC Lattès (Hachette Livre), sold throughout the world.
  • Launch of Filles TV, the first cable channel aimed at teenage girls.
  • Acquisition of the British publisher Hodder Headline by Hachette Livre.
  • Le Journal de Mickey celebrates its 70th anniversary.

2005
  • Inaugural flight of the A380 in Toulouse.
  • Launch of the channels Europe 2 and Gulli (the latter in partnership with France Télévisions) on free DTT.
  • Celebration of 60 years of Elle.
  • Creation of Team Lagardère, a scientific and technical programme designed to support sports performance.
  • Celebration at the Maison de la Culture in Paris of the centenary of Japan's oldest magazine, Fujingaho (HFM).

2006
  • Hachette Livre acquires American publisher Time Warner Books.
  • Lagardère Group raises its stake in Canal+ to 20%.
  • Bibliothèque Rose celebrates 150 years.
  • HDS Digital kiosk opens at Relay and Virgin Mega sites, giving web users the option of downloading a broad range of press titles
  • Lagardère Group becomes the new franchisee of the Croix Catelan sports and entertainment site (Bois de Boulogne, Paris) for a twenty-year period.
  • Pooling of the Group's magazine-publishing and audiovisual and digital activities is announced. Hachette Filipacchi Médias and Lagardère Active are merged under the Lagardère Active name and transformed into companies with an Executive Board and a Supervisory Board, headed by Didier Quillot.
  • Lagardère acquires Sportfive, the leading European sports rights management company.
  • Issue of ORAPA (adjustable-parity convertible bonds) by Lagardère SCA, involving 7.5% of EADS' capital.
 

 

Press releases

2012/02/07

Objective for 2011 recurring media EBIT(1) maintained thanks to the firm resilience of fourth-quarter activity trends, despite a difficult economic environment

2012/02/03

Declaration of the total number of voting rights and capital stock shares

Arnaud Lagardère Editorial

"In 2010, Lagardère achieved a recurring EBIT before associates exceeding the target announced in March 2010 and growth of 19.3% in Group net income. I would like to thank all the teams warmly for their valuable efforts. Indeed, these results have been achieved through rigorous cash management, improved competitiveness and the protection of our traditional sources of revenue, while leveraging the opportunities offered by the digital sector..."
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The group's activities

Lagardère, a world-class pure-play media group led by Arnaud Lagardère, operates in nearly 40 countries and is structured around four distinct, complementary divisions.

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The group's values

The Group has clear values that determine its personality. Lagardère's creativity, boldness and independence have helped to create a modern, innovative media group that's in touch with its times.