Who owns Calmann-Lévy?
Calmann-Lévy is owned by Lagardère (France, EPA: MMB).[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: 2025 Universal Registration Document, Lagardère SA, 31 March 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Lagardère SA reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇷 France, Paris
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France, Paris
- Founded
- 1836
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- EPA: MMB
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Calmann-Lévy
Calmann-Lévy is a general literature imprint inside Lagardère Publishing and the French publisher of Michael Connelly, whose Nightshade appeared in 2025 as Sous les eaux d'Avalon. It sits in the same competitive set as Grasset, Fayard, Stock and JC Lattès, each of which the group runs as a separate house with its own editorial identity.
Ownership timeline of Calmann-Lévy
Where Calmann-Lévy sits in Lagardère
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Lagardère
Lagardère controls 21 brands on Brandtree, 18 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- Bragelonne (2000)
- ELLE (1945)
- Europe 1 (1955)
- Europe 2
- Fayard (1857)
- Grasset (1907)
- Grupo Anaya (1988)
- Hachette Book Group
- Hachette Livre (1826)
- Hachette UK
- Larousse
- Le Journal du Dimanche (1948)
- Le Livre de Poche (1953)
- Le Routard (1973)
- Little, Brown
- RFM
- Workman Publishing (1968)
Other brands in book publishers, and who owns them
Lagardère has more brands in book publishers on Brandtree than any other owner: 13 of 34.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bokfabriken | Storytel | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | Scholastic | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Macmillan Education | Springer Nature | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Dummies | Wiley | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Penguin Books | Bertelsmann | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Kids Can Press | Corus | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Kadokawa Bunko | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| HarperCollins | News Corp | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Lagardère
Lagardère is a publicly listed company headquartered in Paris, France, founded in 1992. Brandtree records 21 brands under its control, and it is listed as EPA: MMB.
Lagardère is a French group created in 1992 and built around two businesses: Lagardère Publishing, the world's third-largest consumer publishing group, and Lagardère Travel Retail, which runs more than 4,800 shops in around 1,000 airports and railway stations. A smaller Lagardère Live segment holds the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, the ELLE trademark and the radio stations Europe 1, Europe 2 and RFM. The group has more than 33,000 employees in over 50 countries. Since the December 2024 demerger of Vivendi, its controlling shareholder has been Louis Hachette Group, which holds about two-thirds of the capital.
🇫🇷 Calmann-Lévy and other French brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 318 brands that began in France. 99 of them (31%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Calmann-Lévy is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Calmann-Lévy?
The parent company of Calmann-Lévy is Lagardère, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Calmann-Lévy French?
Yes. Calmann-Lévy originated in France in 1836 and its owner, Lagardère, is also headquartered in France.
Is Calmann-Lévy still owned by Lagardère?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Calmann-Lévy is still owned by Lagardère. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (2) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] 2025 Universal Registration Document — Lagardère SA, Annual report, published 31 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
- [2] Calmann-Lévy : Qui sommes-nous ? — Calmann-Lévy, Official document; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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