Hachette Group: Holdings

holdings

This list is indicative only, illustrating the extent of Hachette-Filipacchi and Editis rather than providing a definitive inventory.

Lagardere's media holdings encompass -

* magazines
* advertising
* newspapers
* printing
* book publishing
* television and radio
* distribution

Magazines

France

Action Auto Moto
Automobiles Classiques
Bambi
Bon Voyage
Corse-Matin
ELLE
ELLE A TABLE
ELLE DECORATION
Entrevue
Femina Hebdo
France Dimanche
ICI Paris
ISA
Jeune & Jolie
Joypad
Joystick
L'echo des Savanes
La Corse Votre Hebdo
La Provence
Le Journal de Mickey
Le Journal du Dimanche
Maximal
Mickey Jeux
Mickey Parade
Minnie Mag
Nice-Matin
OK ! Podium
Onze Mondial
P'tit Loup
Parents
Paris Match
Pariscope
Photo
Picsou Magazine
Playstation 2
Premiere
Super Picsou Geant
Tele 7 Jeux
Tele 7 Jours
Telecable Satellite Hebdo
Top Famille Magazine
TV Hebdo
Var-Matin
Week-End
Winnie
Winnie Jeux
Winnie Lecture

North America

Elle
Elle Decor
Ellegirl
Woman's Day
Metropolitan Home
Home
Premiere
Travel Holiday
Car and Driver
Car Stereo Review's Mobile Entertainment
Boating
Flying
Showboats International
Road & Track
Cycle World
Sound & Vision
Popular Photography
American Photo

Subsidiaries in Spain, Japan, Italy. Licensing in 28 countries including
Australia.

42% of publisher Marie Claire - inc Marie Claire, Marie-Claire Maison, Avantages, Famili and Cuisine et vins de France - controlled by Nicholas Berry and Prouvost family

Advertising

Interdeco group is the leading media buyer in France, parallelling Havas (the leading advertising agency and former Vivendi subsidiary). It provides services to a number of its publishing competitors and has acquired stakes in a range of agencies, such as Eurosud Publicité (local media planning, 86%) and Hexagone (national media planning, 22%)

Hachette Filipacchi Global Advertising operates outside France, specialising in promotion of and sales for the group's magazines.

Newspapers

Newspaper holdings include -

La Provence
Nice-Matin (94%)
Var-Matin (94%)
Corse Matin (86.5%)
Corse (86.5%)
Votre Hebdo (86.5%)
Philippe Amaury group - Le Parisien, l'Equipe and l'Equipe Magazine (25%)
L'Alsace (20%)

Hachette has a small stake in ailing PCF newspaper L'Humanité

printing

Action to dispose of the group's printing interests (fourth largest in Europe) is underway

Book Publishing

Publishing houses in France, Italy, the UK, Australia and US include -

Larousse
Anaya
Dunod
Dalloz
Armand Colin
Hachette
Editions Filipacchi
Le Livre de Poche
Cassell
Orion
Calmann-Levy
Grasset
Arms & Armour
Blandford
Dent
Discovery Books
Gollancz
Sterling
Studio Vista
Ward Lock
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Dolphin
Everyman
Indigo
Millennium
Phoenix
Seven Dials
Hodder & Stoughton
John Murray
Hodder Wayland
Hodder Arnold
Coronet
Hodder Moa Beckett (New Zealand)

Television and Radio

Teva (24.5%) - television
Europe 1 - radio
Europe 2 - radio
Muzzik - television
Canal J - cable television
Match-TV - cable television
CanalSatellite - satellite broadcaster (34%)
interests in film and television production houses

Distribution

The group has major wholesale and retail holdings, on the model of WH Smith and Sanoma WSOY's Rautakirja. These include Hachette UCS (Canada's largest news-stand chain), Curtis Circulation (retail sales of US$1.9 billion in 2001, around 43% of the US newsstand industry), 40% of NewsLink (Australian-based airport and other travel retail operator) and Bookpoint (Hodder Headline's distributor).

Editis

Editis imprints include -

Plon
Plon-Perrin
Robert
Robert-Laffont
Juillard
Presses de la Cite
Presses de la Renaissance
Fleuve Noir
Pocket
Belfond
10/18
Bordas
Nathan

The 2004 deal transferred book distributor Interforum to Wendel