Lagardère Group

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Lagardère SCA

Type	Public (Euronext: MMB)
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Paris, France
Key people	Arnaud Lagardère (General partner & CEO)
Industry	Media and aerospace
Products	Books, press, distribution, audiovisual and EADS
Revenue	€9.336 billion EUR (9 months to 30.09.05)
Employees	30,580 (2004)
Website	http://www.lagardere.com

Lagardère SCA is a large French group of companies, diversified in publishing and aerospace, formerly known as Matra.

1 Organization
2 Management
3 History
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Organization

Media
- Lagardère Media (100%)
  - Lagardère Active
    - CanalSat (34%)
  - Hachette Filipacchi Médias
  - Hachette Livre
  - Virgin Megastore
    - Hachette Book Group USA
    - Little, Brown Book Group
  - Hachette Distribution Services
High Technologies
- EADS (15.1%) held through Désirade.

[edit] Management

Jean-Luc Lagardère, former CEO, now deceased
Arnaud Lagardère, his son, current CEO

[edit] 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).

Following a share swap in 1994 Lagardère held 93.3% of Matra Hachette’s stock. In 1996 Matra Hachette was formally merged into Lagardère.

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.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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