Lagardère Group
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Lagardère SCA is a large French group of companies, diversified in publishing and aerospace, formerly known as Matra.
Organization
- Media
- *Lagardère Media (100%)
- **Lagardère Active
- ***CanalSat (34%)
- **Hachette Filipacchi Médias
- **Hachette Livre
- ***Hachette Book Group USA
- ***Little, Brown Book Group
- **Hachette Distribution Services
- High Technologies
- *EADS (15.1%) held through Désirade and SOGEADE.
Management
- Jean-Luc Lagardère, former CEO, now deceased
- Arnaud Lagardère, his son, current CEO
History
Lagardère was incorporated on September 24, 1980 as a holding company.Matra was privatized in 1988, with Lagardère holding 6% of the stock and by 1992 25%. In December 1992 the group was radically restructured:
- Lagardère absorbed Arjil, its parent company.
- Lagardère received shares in Matra (from Floirat, Daimler Benz and GEC) and the holding group of Hachette, Marlis (from Floirat, Crédit Lyonnais and Aberly).
- Matra and Hachette were merged to form Matra Hachette, of which Lagardère held 37.6%.
- Lagardère legal status was changed from a corporation (société anonyme or SA) to a limited partnership with shares (société en commandite par actions or SCA).
In 1999 the defence arm, Matra Hautes Technologies, merged with Aérospatiale to form Aérospatiale-Matra. On July 10, 2000 Aérospatiale-Matra became part of EADS.
On 23 October 2002 Lagardère announced the purchase of Vivendi Universal Publishing, with the exception of Houghton Mifflin.
See also
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L'Oréal |
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Michelin |
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PSA Peugeot Citroën |
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