Groupe Lagardère

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Lagardère SCA

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legal form Limited partnership based on shares
ISIN FR0000130213
founding 1996
Seat Paris , France
management Arnaud Lagardère
Number of employees 23,179 (2013)
sales 7.216 billion euros (2013)
Branch Publishing and media, sports rights
Website www.lagardere.com

Lagardère SCA is a large French group of companies active in the publishing , media and sports rights sectors. The stake in the defense and aviation group EADS was sold in April 2013.

media

Lagardère Media, 100% owned by Lagardère SCA, bundles the group's media activities, which are divided into several divisions:

  • Lagardère Publishing (formerly Hachette Livre ): the largest book publisher in France and the third largest general-interest publisher in the world with numerous subsidiaries or holdings, etc. a. in the USA ( Hachette Book Group with, among others, Little, Brown and Company and Grand Central Publishing), Great Britain (Hachette UK, with, among others, Orion, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline), Spain and Latin America (Anaya).
  • Lagardère Active Media : combines the activities of two formerly separate divisions in the audiovisual and new media sectors:
    • Lagardère Active : various subsidiaries and holdings in television and radio broadcasters (including CanalSat: 34%, Europe 1 : 100%, Gulli , Groupe MCM) and internet agencies
    • Hachette Filipacchi Médias : Press products, world's largest magazine publisher, around 50 magazines in France, including: Paris Match , the French edition of Elle magazine , Photo , minority stakes in the newspaper L'Humanité , in the Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne group (NMPP, 49 %) and to the Editions Philippe Amaury press group , which publishes Le Parisien and L'Équipe ; further subsidiaries u. a. in the USA, Japan, Hong Kong, Russia, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands
  • Lagardère Services (formerly Hachette Distribution Services ): one of the world's largest press distributors and book retailers; Full ownership or holdings, etc. a. to Relay (around a thousand press and bookstores, mainly at train stations, airports, underground stations), Virgin Megastores (book retail chain in France, Great Britain, USA, Greece and Japan), Payot Libraire (book retail chain in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, since 2004 also a branch in Wiesbaden), Furet du Nord (bookstore chain), Curtis Circulation Company (largest magazine distributor in the USA)
  • Lagardère Sports and Entertainment , until May 2010 Lagardère Sports , until 2015 Lagardère Unlimited (sports organizers and sports rights marketing): this includes a. the subsidiaries and holdings Lagardère Unlimited Events AG with their subsidiary Lagardère Unlimited Events Germany GmbH in Hamburg (organizer of Vattenfall Cyclassics and Garmin Velothon Berlin ), Sportfive , World Sport Group, International Events and Communication in Sports (IEC), Newsweb including the BNP Paribas Showdown and the Citi Open ( WTA College Park and ATP Washington ).
    HIG Capital acquired Lagardère Sports and Entertainment (to be renamed Sportfive again) in April 2020 for a purchase price of around 110 million euros, with the Lagardère Group retaining a minority stake of 24.9%.
  • Team Lagardère : sports promoter
  • Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère (Foundation)

management

history

On September 24, 1980, Lagardère was incorporated as a holding company . Matra was privatized in 1988 , with Lagardère receiving 6% of the share capital and increasing its stake to 25% by 1992. The group was radically restructured in December 1992:

After a share swap in 1994, Lagardère held 93.3% of the share capital of Matra Hachette. In 1996, Matra Hachette was merged with Lagardère. In 1999, Matra Hautes Technologies merged with the French aircraft manufacturer Aérospatiale to form Aérospatiale-Matra . On July 10, 2000, Aérospatiale-Matra became part of EADS , in which Lagardère held a 15.1% stake.

On October 23, 2002, Lagardère announced the takeover of Vivendi Universal Publishing, with the exception of Houghton Mifflin , which was renamed Editis in 2003 . Following the agreements with the European Union , Lagardère had to part with 60 percent of its shares in Editis. On May 27, 2004, Wendel Investissement offered to take over 60 percent of the shares in Editis. On February 6, 2006, Groupe Lagardère announced the acquisition of Time Warner Book Group for US $ 537.5 million. This made it the third largest consumer publishing group in the world.

In November 2007, the Lagardère Sports Group took over the German sports event and marketing company Upsolut Sports from Hamburg, including the organizer of Vattenfall Cyclassics and owner of the exploitation rights in merchandising for the brands of FC St. Pauli . These exploitation rights, together with the entire merchandising division, were bought back by FC St. Pauli in November 2015.

Lagardère is at the Euro Next -Börse in Paris listed and owned by the French stock market index CAC 40 at. Alongside Arnaud Lagardère, the de Wendel family is one of the most important shareholders.

In April 2013, Lagardère sold all of its 7.5% shares in EADS that were last held .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Schasche: Lagardère Sports becomes Sportfive again. In: wuv.de. May 28, 2017, accessed June 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ bang: St. Pauli buys merchandise retailer Upsolut Hamburger Abendblatt, November 24, 2015

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