2003
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.
Lagardère sells its automobile engineering activities to the Italian group Pininfarina.
2004
The Group acquires a portion of Vivendi Universal Publishing’s French and Spanish assets.
Acquisition of the British publisher Hodder Headline by Hachette Livre.
2005
Vol inaugural de l’A380 à Toulouse.
Launch of the channels Europe 2 and Gulli (the latter in partnership with France Télévisions) on free DTT.
Creation of Team Lagardère, a scientific and technical programme designed to support sports performance.
2006
Hachette Livre acquires American publisher Time Warner Books.
Lagardère Group raises its stake in Canal+ to 20%.
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.