Edipresse Group: landmarks
Landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. Context is provided by the broader communications and media timeline.
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1906 Société de la Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne founded
1906 Imprimeries Réunies SA (printing works) founded
1909 El Hogar y Moda SA (HYMSA) founded in Barcelona
1911 buys Tribune de Lausanne
1925 Lousonna SA holding company formed by Samuel Payot, Jacques Lamunière and Charles Patru
1925 buys Société de la Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne
1925 buys Imprimeries Réunies
1937 buys 50% of LESA SA, which becomes Kiosk SA
1942 buys 40% of Sonor SA, publisher of daily La Suisse
1973 buys Librairie Payot and Editions Payot Paris from the Payot family
1977 buys majority of Financière de Presse (including 100% of Naville SA)
1982 Lousonna group restructured to separate Lamunière and Nicole family interests, with formation of the Lamunière SA holding company
1982 Lamunière SA takes over 50% of Lousonna
1982 Lousonna sells 24 heures, Imprimeries Lausanne (formerly Feuille d'Avis de Lausanne & Imprimeries Réunies) and Le Matin SA to Lamunière
1982 Nicole family's JCN Presse buys out Sonor SA (La Suisse) and buys up 50% of Lousonna
1982 Payot family buys out Librairie Payot and sells interest in Lousonna group
1987 Lamunière buys 51% of Financière de Presse (Naville) and majority interests in OLF (Office du Livre Fribourg) and Librarie Payot
1987 Lamunière sells its 50% stake in Lousonna to Nicole's CICOM, which then owns 100% of Lousonna
1988 Lousonna becomes Edipresse SA holding company
1988 buys out Financière de Presse, OLF and Librairie Payot
1990 forms Payot Naville Distribution (formerly Financière de Presse)
1990 sells 65% of Payot Naville Distribution (Naville, OLF, Payot) to Hachette
1990 buys 75% stake in HYMSA
1991 forms Presse Publications SA (PPSR), grouping together Edipresse and Publicitas interests in Switzerland
1992 forms Presse Publications France SA
1992 takes 68% stake in Publicaçoes Projornal SA and Repórteres Associados SA in Lisbon
1993 Tu Bebé launched
1995 buys 50% of Warsaw-based Helvetica Sàrl
1997 HYMSA takes 50% stake in the Madrid-based printer and publisher Semana
1998 Edipresse buys remaining 50% of Helvetica Sàrl, which becomes Edipresse Polska
1998 takes 33% stake in ACJ Abril/Controljornal Edipresse joint venture with Abril and the Portuguese Controljornal group
1998 Sorpresa! and Mujer21 launched
1998 takes 50% stake in Liberis Publications in Greece
1998 takes stake in Romanian Publishing Group (RPG)
1998 takes 47% stake in Le Temps SA, responsible for daily Le Temps formed through merger of Le Nouveau Quotidien and Le Journal de Genève (est as Gazette de Lausanne)
1999 forms Ediexcel joint venture in France with Excelsior Group
2000 forms Edipresse Online
2000 14% of Liberis Publications floated
2000 buys 50% of Desmi Publishing in Greece
2000 forms Edipresse Ukraine
2000 Silueta launched
2001 buys Swiss advertising sales agency Senger Media (renamed Edipub)
2001 buys 30% of broadcaster Star TV
2001 buys Przekrój in Poland
2001 closes Le Temps Strategique, La Tribune Mt Blanc and Animan
2001 buys Pani and Urod in Poland
2001 sells Vital in France
2001 Le Monde buys Sandoz Family Foundation's 20% stake in Geneva daily Le Temps
2002 Edipresse takes 20% stake in TV production house Point Prod Sàrl
2002 takes 68% stake in Corbaz group
2002 merges Romanian arm with Axel Springer's Axel Springer Editura Romania
2003 Edipresse reduces stake in Le Temps to 41% (41% held by Ringier, 5% by Le Monde)