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This page identifies French media groups profiled on this site -

  • Bayard - magazine and newspaper publisher associated with the Assumptionist Order
  • Bollore - transport and publishing conglomerate
  • Hachette - global magazine publisher controlled by the Lagardère conglomerate
  • Havas - advertising conglomerate
  • Hersant, Dassault and Socpresse newspaper group
  • Ouest-France - largest French newspaper publisher
  • Pathe, Gaumont, Schlumberger and Seydoux
  • Publicis - advertising
  • Vivendi - the civil engineering group that swallowed Seagram (theme parks, music, films, publishing ...)
  • Le Monde and Le Temps
  • Libération and L'Humanité

French newspaper publishing is dominated by Ouest-France and two industrial groups: Lagardère and Dassault.

Lagardère (formerly Matra) - controlled by the Lagardère family - has a major stake in the European aerospace and weapons sectors, along with control of the Hachette group. Hachette encompasses Paris Match, Elle, the only national Sunday newspaper and most newspapers in the Marseilles-Nice region. It is the biggest book publisher, the largest book distributor and the dominant newsagent in France.

Dassault - controlled by the Dassault family - has substantial aeospace interests (eg produces the Mirage fighter) and in 2004 took control of Socpresse, the group that owns conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro, weekly news magazine L'Express, two of the largest regional newspapers (in Lille and Lyons) and over 60 other publications. Socpresse was formerly controlled by Robert Hersant.