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FRANCE

March 2010
Lagardère Active launches Be, the first 360° global media brand deployed on all the division's platforms (magazine, Internet, mobile phones, e-commerce, radio and television).

March/May 2010
Relay, a Lagardère Services subsidiary, opened two new Chez Jean outlets in Marseille and Toulouse in partnership with the Casino group.

May 2010
An on-demand digital print unit was opened in Maurepas as a joint venture between Lagardère Publishing and Lightning Source.

The Lagardère Sports division became Lagardère Unlimited under the chairmanship of Arnaud Lagardère assisted by two Chief Operating Officers.

June 2010
Aelia, a Lagardère Services subsidiary, opened six shops in the Nice Côte d'Azur airport.

August 2010
Aelia and LS Aspac won a call for tenders issued by New Caledonia's Noumea airport to manage two retail outlets as of January 2011 for a period of 10 years.

November 2010
Signing of a memorandum of understanding between Hachette Livre and Google that defines the terms for Google to scan French out-of-print works controlled by Hachette Livre.

Gulli, France's third-ranked DDT channel over the full year 2010, celebrates its fifth anniversary.

March 2011
Lagardère Publishing owns 100% of Éditions Albert René and now controls all the rights connected to the Asterix brand (publishing, audiovisual, merchandising, etc.).

FRANCE/POLAND/RUSSIA

June 2010
Sportfive expanded its portfolio of football clubs under exclusive marketing contracts with the signing of longterm partnerships with AS Saint-Étienne (France), FC Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Lechia Gdansk (Poland).

SPAIN/ITALY/UNITED KINGDOM

April/October 2010
Doctissimo, the leading French website for women, expands internationally with the launch of Spanish, Italian and English versions.

UNITED KINGDOM

February 2010
Lagardère Unlimited continues its development in Europe with the opening of a London office.

May 2010
Hachette UK won several prizes during the 2010 British Books Awards ("Nibbies"): Publisher of the Year (Little, Brown), Bookseller's Imprint (Virago) and Editor of the Year (Lennie Goodings), and the IBS Bookmaster Innovation in the Publishing Supply Chain prize.

GERMANY

November 2010
HDS Retail Deutschland, a Lagardère Services subsidiary, concluded an agreement covering the operation of ten stores in Berlin's new Brandenburg International airport, slated to open in June 2012.

BELGIUM/GREECE

April/September 2010
Lagardère Active launches the 10^th and 11^th international editions of Psychologies magazine in Greece and Belgium.

RUSSIA

March 2011
Lagardère Publishing signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to acquiring a minority interest in the Russian publishing group Atticus Publishing.

CZECH REPUBLIC

February 2010
Aelia and HDS Retail Czech Republic expanded their activities in the Czech Republic with the acquisition of the duty free business of Czech Airlines.

AMERICA/ASIA/EUROPE/OCEANIA

June 2010
Worldwide launch of the new novella based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner.

UNITED STATES

May 2010
Lagardère Unlimited acquired the American company Best, which specialises in the representation of athletes and celebrities.

July 2010
James Patterson (published by Hachette Book Group in the United States) is the first writer to sell more than a million e-books.

JAPAN

May 2010
Hachette Fujinghao, a subsidiary of Lagardère Active, and Yahoo! Japan signed a strategic partnership for the distribution of content in Japan.

AUSTRALIA

April 2010
LS Aspac opened three stores dedicated to the Australian stationery brand, Smiggle, in Australia's Adelaide, Gold Coast and Melbourne airports.

ASIA/OCEANIA

September 2010
Sportfive International, a subsidiary of Lagardère Unlimited, was chosen by UEFA to market the media rights for the UEFA Euro 2012^TM in Asia (with the exception of Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia) and Oceania.

SINGAPORE

December 2010
Aelia and LS Aspac opened The Fashion Gallery, a luxury fashion boutique occupying over 700 square metres in the Changi airport in Singapore.

• Countries in which the Lagardère group operates