2007 - Arnaud Lagardère announces the Group's reorganization around four major institutional brands: Lagardère Publishing, Lagardère Active, Lagardère Services, and Lagardère Sports, a new branch created with the acquisition of Sportfive.
- New acquisitions for Lagardère Active in the digital field, with NextIdea, ID Régie, and Jumpstart Automative Media.
- Lagardère Services racks up acquisitions and point-of-sale openings in Eastern Europe and Asia.
- Development of Lagardère Sports: partners with the African Soccer Confederation and acquires IEC In Sports and Upsolut.
- Lagardère Publishing acquires Grupo Patria Cultural (Mexico), Piatkus Books (England), and Pika, a French manga publisher.
- ELLE extends its international network, with its 41st publication launched in Indonesia.
2008 - Lagardère Sports acquires a majority stake in World Sport Group, the top sports agency in Asia.
- Lagardère Active buys out Doctissimo and 100% of the group, Psychologies.
- Lagardère Entertainment, a subsidiary of Lagardère Active, is created, and specializes in audiovisual production and broadcasting.
- The Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer is an unprecedented publishing success for Lagardère Publishing.
- PR Event, the company that owns and organizes the ATP and WTA tournaments in Bastad, Sweden, joins Lagardère Sports.
- Lagardère Publishing acquires Numilog, the #1 French platform for the distribution of e-books.
- Lagardère Publishing acquires a majority stake in Editions Albert René, the publisher of Astérix.
- Lagardère Services acquires Delstar and News & Gifts in the US.
2009 - Lagardère Unlimited is created. The company specializes in managing the rights and commercial use of sports figures' and entertainers' images.
- Sportfive is awarded management of European media rights for the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics.
- The Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation celebrates 20 years.
- Lagardère Publishing continues to post sales records for the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer.
- Lagardère Publishing and Lightning Source enter into a joint venture for on-demand printing.
- Lagardère Services increases its presence in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Taiwan after acquiring many point-of-sale franchises.
- Europe 1 becomes the #3 radio station in France in terms of aggregate audience.
- Paris Match celebrates 60 years.
2010 - Lagardère Active launches Be, a new global media brand.
- Lagardère Publishing is one of the major publishing groups to partner with iBooks, iPad's book application.
- Seventeen years after the creation of the limited partnership disputed by an American activist, the SCA (the French limited partnership with shares ) was confirmed by nearly 80% of shareholders at the Shareholders' Meeting on April 27, 2010.
- The Lagardère Sports branch becomes Lagardère Unlimited and acquires Best, a US company specialized in representing sports figures and celebrities.
- Lagardère Publishing publishes L'appel du sang - La Seconde vie de Bree Tanner (The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner), the newest title in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga.
- Lagardère Active and YouTube sign a strategic partnership to broadcast video on the web.
- Lagardère Services Asia Pacific (LS ASPAC) and Aelia are awarded operation of one of the top multi-brand fashion stores at Changi Airport (Singapore).
- The Seventh and last Jean-Luc Lagardère Trophy, the French leg of the ATP Champions Tour, played host to numerous world tennis legends between 2004 and 2010
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