About Lagardere

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 the American publisher Time Warner Books.
  
• The Lagardère group increases its stake in Canal+ to 20%.
  
• The Bibliothèque Rose celebrates its 150th anniversary.
  
• Launch of the HDSdigital digital kiosk on the Relay and Virgin Mega sites, allowing Internet users to download a wide range of press titles.
  
• The Lagardère group becomes the new licence holder for the Croix Catelan sports and leisure complex in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris for a 20-year period.
  
• Announcement of the merger of the group’s magazine publishing, audiovisual and digital activities.
  
• Hachette Filipacchi Médias and Lagardere Active are converted into companies with a Management Board and Supervisory Board, led by Didier Quillot.
  
• Lagardère acquires Sportfive, the leading European company in the management of sports broadcasting and marketing rights.