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FRANCE

January-December 2012
Europe 1 has more podcast listeners than any other radio station in France for 12 consecutive months, with more than 63.6 million downloads in 2012.

June 2012
TV channel Gulli is voted "Best broadcaster of the year" by animation professionals at the 2012 Cartoon Forum.

July 2012
Lagardère Active acquires LeGuide.com, Europe's market leader in shopping guides.

October 2012
Launch by Lagardère Unlimited Live Entertainment of the musical Salut les copains at Les Folies Bergère in Paris.

October 2012-February 2013
Publication by JC Lattès, a subsidiary of Lagardère Publishing, of the Fifty Shades trilogy by E L James.

December 2012
Lagardère Active acquires ticketing website BilletReduc.com, French market leader in discounted tickets.

SPAIN

September 2012
Acquisition by SGEL, a subsidiary of LS distribution, of Celeritas, a specialist in e-commerce and logistics.

UNITED STATES/FRANCE/UNITED KINGDOM

September 2012
Little, Brown Book Group (United Kingdom), Little, Brown and Company (United States) and Grasset (France), three subsidiaries of Lagardère Publishing, publish The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books.

UNITED STATES

January 2013
Acquisition by LS distribution North America of Crossings, importer and distributor of French fine foods to the United States.

June 2012
Hachette Book Group launches Redhook, Orbit’s new commercial fiction publishing subsidiary.

UNITED KINGDOM

March 2012
Octopus Publishing, a subsidiary of Hachette UK, acquires children's non-fiction publisher Ticktock Entertainment.

ITALY

September 2012
LS travel retail acquires AdR Retail and becomes operator of eight duty free and duty paid stores at Rome's airports (Fiumicino and Ciampino

INDIA/RUSSIA

November 2012
Lagardère Unlimited Stadium Solutions, a specialist in consulting services for the management and operation of multi-functional stadiums and arenas, signs contracts in India and Russia.

INDIA

October 2012
LS travel retail signs a strategic partnership agreement in India with Travel Food Services, India's market leader in Food & Beverage Services.

ASIA

February/October 2012
Launch of a bimonthly edition of Elle in China (published under licence by Hearst Magazines China) and Elle Decoration in the Philippines (with Summit Media).

JAPAN

January-December 2012
The "Crochet" series published by the Partworks division of Lagardère Publishing, sold more than 3.5 million copies in 2012.

March 2012
World Sport Group renews its distribution contract for the media rights to the Japanese football league (J. League) for a further year.

MALAYSIA

January 2013
As the result of a partnership between Lagardère Active Entreprises and LS travel retail ASPAC, a future Elle Café outlet is announced for the new KLIA2 terminal at Kuala Lumpur airport

AUSTRALIA

September 2012
Lagardère Unlimited acquires Sports Marketing and Management, an Australian sports marketing agency specialising in Olympic sports.

AUSTRALIA/NEW-ZEALAND

August 2012
LS travel retail ASPAC acquires Duty Free Stores Wellington Ltd and becomes operator of 16 duty free stores at Australian and New Zealand airports.

SOUTH AFRICA

January-February 2013
Sportfive Africa is the exclusive agency for marketing and media rights for the Orange Africa Cup of Nations, SOUTH AFRICA 2013.