Lagardère News

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Lagardère News
Company typeWholly-owned subsidiary
IndustryMedia
FoundedNovember 6, 2000; 23 years ago (2000-11-06) in Paris, France
ParentLagardère Group
Websitewww.lagardere.com/societes-et-marques/lagardere-news/

Lagardère News, formerly known as Lagardère Active, is the media activities arm of the French Lagardère Group. It owns the radio stations Europe 1, Europe 2, and RFM, the newspapers Le Journal du Dimanche and the magazine Paris Match.[1]

Its subsidiaries include Lagardère's radio operations, television networks, and book and magazine publishers.

History

In October 2000, the Lagardère Group announced that there bringing together its media division with all of its audiovisual and new media activities Europe 1 Communication (radio, advertising and audiovisual management) and Lagardère Net (formerly Grolier interactive ) under one single brand named Lagardère Active which will be divided into two companies named Lagardere Active Broadcast and Lagardere Active Broadband.

In December 2006, Lagardère annouced that they had merged Lagardére Active with Hachette Filipacchi Médias to form the new worldwide media division under the Lagardère Active name. Their advertising agencies Lagardère Active Publicite and Interdeco had been merged together into France's most largest advertising company named Lagardère Publicité known internationally outside France as Lagardère Global Advertising.[2] One day later, Lagardère Active had announced they signed an agreement to acquire Newshub to increase their fast-growing media activites.[3]

In January 2011, it was announced that Lagardère Active had sold their international magazine business including their British titles Inside Soap to New York-based American multinational newspaper and magazine company and the owner of Cosmopolitan magazine Hearst Communications.

In January 2013, Lagardère Active announced that they had acquired online ticket service BilletRèduc.com[4]

In 2018, Arnaud Lagardère announced that Lagardère would be disposing of its media assets, which they carried out throughout the year.[5] This included their stake in Marie Claire, their radio businesses in Eastern Europe and Africa, and their press titles in France, including Elle.[6]

Activities

Lagardère News' businesses are radio broadcasting , programming, television production, grouped in the Lagardère News structure, magazine publishing and an advertising management activity. They used to have a film distribution until 2020 when they sold their film, television and entertainment division to Mediawan.

Internet

  • Newsweb (100%)
    • Europe 1 Sports
    • LeJdd.fr
    • Parismatch.fr
    • Europe1.fr
  • Selma (100%)
    • Mood.fr

Former activities

Television channels

It was announced that M6 Group had made a deal with Lagardère Active to buy the latter's channels.

Lagardère Studios

Lagardère Studios (formerly known as Largardère Entertainment) was a French entertainment production arm of Lagardère Active that specialises in television programming.

In March 2009, Lagardère Entertainment announced that they brought a 51% majority stake in French unscripted entertainment company Electron Libre Productions.[7]

In September 2012, Lagardère Entertainment announced that their rebranding their distribution subsidiary Europe Images International to Lagardere Entertainment Rights to reflect their parent company's ties between their production and distribution activities.[8]

In October 2013 after failing to acquire Sweden's Nice Entertainment, Lagardère Entertainment had announced that their exiting the animation industry and ceasing their animation production by selling their animation subsidiary Genao Productions to OuiDo! Entertainment founders and Genao managers Sandrine Nguyen and Boris Hertzog and rebranding Genao as OuiDo! Productions with Lagardère Entertainment's distribution arm Lagardère Entertainment Rights retained Genao Productions's back catalogue.[9]

On February 9 2015 Lagardère Entertainment under their own distribution company Lagardère Entertainment Rights announced that they had acquired international distribution company The Box Distribution and was interrogated into their own distribution arm.[10]

On May 28 2015, Lagardère Entertainment announced that they brought a 82% majority stake in Spanish-based entertainment and drama production company Grupo Boomerang TV becoming Lagardère Entertained's first international acquisition outside of France and expanded their operarions into Spain.[11]

In September 2015, Lagardère announced that they've rebranding their entertainment group to put more on their global production division by renaming their entertainment television arm Lagardère Entertainment to Lagardère Studios in order to aim their global growth and was reorganised into four groups.[12]

On October 17 2017, Lagardère Studios announced that they had entered the Finnish television industry by acquiring Finnish-based production company Alto Media Group thrust expanding their operations to Finland and the first time the company's second international acquisition with Alto Media Group's catalog now be distributed by Lagardère Studios' distribution arm.[13]

In March 2018, Lagardère Studios announced that they've expanded their global footprint into the Netherlands with the acquisition of a majority stake in Dutch-based factual format production company Skyhigh TV thrust growing Lagardère's television division and strengthen their international TV production.[14]

See also

  • Lagardère Active topics
  • Lagardère Media companies

References

  1. ^ "Lagardère News". Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  2. ^ "LAGARDÈRE ACTIVE MEDIA". Lagardere. December 11, 2006. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  3. ^ "Agreement to acquire Newsweb". Lagardère. December 12, 2006. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  4. ^ "Lagardère Active acquires BilletRéduc.com". Lagardère. January 7, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  5. ^ "Strategy". Lagardère. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  6. ^ Burlet, Fleur (2019-02-15). "Lagardère Completes Sale of French Elle to Czech Media Invest". WWD. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
  7. ^ "Lagardère Entertainment acquires a 51% stake in Electron Libre Productions". Lagardère. March 12, 2009. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  8. ^ "Europe Images International becomes Lagardère Entertainment Rights (LE Rights)". Lagardère. September 13, 2012. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  9. ^ Bruneaudate=October 7, 2013, Marie-Agnès. "Lagardère confirms animation exit". C21Media. Retrieved May 20, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "LE Rights acquires The Box Distribution". Advanced Television. February 9, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  11. ^ Bruneau, Marie-Agnès (May 28, 2015). "Lagardère buys Spain's Boomerang TV". C21Media. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  12. ^ Richford, Rhonda (September 2015). "France's Lagardere Eyes Growth for Rebranded TV Production Arm". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  13. ^ Alcinii, Danielle (October 17, 2017). "Lagardere Studios acquires Finland's Aito Media Group". Realscreen. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
  14. ^ Richford, Rhonda (March 12, 2018). "France's Lagardere Acquires Dutch Production Company Skyhigh TV". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 20, 2024.

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1 Lagardère SCA owns these brands in the United Kingdom only. These brands are owned by Scholastic Corporation in the United States.


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