Creation of Louis Hachette Group, combining the activities of Lagardère and Prisma Media, and its listing on Euronext Growth.

Lagardère’s radio unit (Europe 1, Europe 2 and RFM) becomes autonomous.

Acquisition by Vivendi SE of the control of Lagardère SA upon fulfillment by Vivendi of the proposed commitments that conditioned the European Commission’s approval of the transaction (received in June 2023), allowing Vivendi SE to exercise the entirety of the voting rights attached to the shares of Lagardère SA it holds.

Prisma Media launches the French edition of American fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar, creating a new “luxury and lifestyle” division.

A friendly public tender offer is filed and successfully completed by Vivendi SE for Lagardère SA, leading to Vivendi holding 57.35% of the share capital.

Lagardère SCA is converted into a French limited liability company (société anonyme) and a new governance structure is implemented with the agreement of its main shareholders, including Vivendi, which held around 27% of Lagardère SA’s share capital.

Acquisition by Vivendi of 100% of Prisma Media SAS’s share capital.

Vivendi acquires a stake in the share capital of Lagardère SCA.

Lagardère completes its strategic initiative, commenced in 2018, refocusing its efforts around two priority divisions – Lagardère Publishing and Lagardère Travel Retail – as well as other activities (Lagardère News, Lagardère Live Entertainment and Lagardère Paris Racing).

Lagardère continues to expand its publishing and travel retail businesses in France and internationally.

Lagardère divests its remaining interest in EADS.

Prisma Presse becomes Prisma Media.

Lagardère sells its international magazine operations.

Acquisition by Lagardère of a portion of Vivendi Universal Publishing’s French and Spanish assets.

Creation of the EADS consortium following the merger of Aerospatiale Matra, CASA and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace.

Creation of Aerospatiale Matra following the merger of the activities of Aerospatiale and Matra Hautes Technologies.

Matra-Hachette is absorbed into Lagardère Groupe, which changes its name to Lagardère SCA.

Hachette is merged into Matra to form Matra-Hachette, and Lagardère Groupe is created as the parent company.

Matra, headed by Jean-Luc Lagardère since 1963, acquires the Hachette group, specializing in book publishing (Grasset, Fayard, Stock, etc), magazines and newspapers (Elle, Le Journal du Dimanche) and distribution.

Creation of Prisma Presse.

At the end of World War II, Marcel Chassagny founds Matra (Mécanique Aviation TRAction), a company focused on the defense industry.

Louis Hachette is one of the first publishers in France to bring out a magazine designed to entertain the general public (Le Journal pour tous).

Thanks to a concession agreement with seven rail companies, Louis Hachette built and began operating station bookstalls.

Louis Hachette (1800-1864) buys Brédif, a Paris bookstore and lays the foundations for one of the Group’s main areas of activity today: book publishing, distribution and media.