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.
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