Louis Hachette Group

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Louis Hachette Group S.A.

Headquarters of Louis Hachette Group S.A. at Rue de Presbourg, Paris
Company type	Public
Traded as	Euronext Paris: ALHG
Industry	Publishing, Media, Travel Retail, Live Entertainment, Sports club
Founded	October 29, 2024; 48 days ago (2024-10-29) 1826; 198 years ago (1826) (Hachette)
Headquarters	Rue de Presbourg, Paris, Île-de-France , France
Key people	Arnaud Lagardère Vincent Bolloré
Owner	Bolloré family (31.4%)
Subsidiaries	Lagardère (66.53%) Prisma Media
Website	www.louishachettegroup.com

Louis Hachette Group S.A., abbreviated as LHG, is a French conglomerate specialising in publishing, periodicals, media and distribution, with its origins in the Hachette bookshop founded in 1826. Louis Hachette Group is controlled by French businessman Vincent Bolloré.^[1]

Formed from the spin-off of Vivendi in December 2024, the new independent entity holds nearly 66.5 percent of the Lagardère group (Hachette Livre, Larousse, Fayard, Relay, Le Le Journal du dimanche, Europe 1, etc.) as well as 100% of the French press group Prisma Media (Voici, Femme Actuelle, Geo (France), Télé-Loisirs, Capital, etc.).^[2]

France's leading publisher since 2004 and the world's 6th largest publishing group, Louis Hachette Group has its origins in the Hachette publishing group, founded by Louis Hachette in 1826 after the purchase of the Parisian bookshop Brédif.^[3][4]

In December 2023, Vivendi announced that it was carrying out a feasibility study into a plan to split its activities into 4 entities: Canal+, Havas, a publishing and distribution company (combining Lagardère and Prisma Media), and an investment company.^[5]

On 29 October 2024, the new Louis Hachette Group was created. On 30 October 2024, Vivendi and the new Louis Hachette Group entity entered into a partial demerger agreement, enabling LHG to hold a 66.53% stake in Lagardère and a 100% stake in Prisma Media in the event of a favourable vote by Vivendi shareholders.^[6][7]

The company started trading at Euronext Paris on 16 December 2024, the shares were trading at 1.41 euros on that day, up 17.5% on the opening price.^[8]

The future activities of Louis Hachette Group will be carried out by two main entities:

• Lagardère SA
  • Lagardère Publishing
    • Hachette Livre (publishing)
      • Hachette Book Group (ex-Time Warner Book Group)
      • Hachette Australia
      • Little, Brown and Company
      • Orion Publishing Group
        • Bounty Books
        • Conran Octopus
        • Cassell Illustrated
        • etc.
      • Armand Colin
      • Grasset
      • Hatier
      • Fayard
      • JC Lattès
      • Calmann-Levy
      • Dunod
      • Chambers Harrap
      • etc.
  • Lagardère Travel Retail (commercial retail in airports)
    • Relay
    • Paradies Lagardère
    • etc.
  • Lagardère News (media)
    • Le Journal du dimanche
    • and the Elle licence
  • Lagardère Radio
    • Europe 1
    • Europe 2
    • and RFM
  • Lagardère Live Entertainment (entertainment)
    • Casino de Paris, Arkéa Arena, Folies Bergère and Lagardère Paris Racing.
• Prisma Media
  • Femme actuelle
  • Télé-Loisirs
  • Prima
  • Voici
  • Geo (France)
  • Ça m'Intéresse
  • National Geographic (France)
  • Neon
  • Capital
  • Management
  • Harvard Business Review France
  • Simone

At 10 December 2024, after the partial demerger of Vivendi:^[9]

• Hachette Livre
• Arnaud Lagardère

• Official website