Who owns Europe 1?
Europe 1 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
- 1955
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Radio & audio › Radio networks
- Parent ticker
- EPA: MMB
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Europe 1
Europe 1 is France's leading general-interest commercial radio station and turned seventy in December 2025, a year in which it reached nearly 2.9 million daily listeners and posted its best audience figures in six years. Its ownership is unusual: Lagardère owns all of its capital and consolidates it, but the station is controlled by Arnaud Lagardère personally under the arrangement that made the radio unit autonomous in 2023.
Ownership timeline of Europe 1
Where Europe 1 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)
- Calmann-Lévy (1836)
- ELLE (1945)
- 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 radio networks, and who owns them
The 26 brands in radio networks on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is NZME, with 5; Lagardère has 3.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Coast | NZME | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
| ERA | Astro | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Chérie FM | NRJ Group | 🇫🇷 France |
| La 100 | Grupo Clarín | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Hit Network | Southern Cross Media Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Radio One | Urban One | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Westwood One | Cumulus Media | 🇺🇸 United States |
| iHeartRadio | iHeartMedia | 🇺🇸 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.
🇫🇷 Europe 1 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; Europe 1 is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Europe 1?
The parent company of Europe 1 is Lagardère, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Europe 1 French?
Yes. Europe 1 originated in France in 1955 and its owner, Lagardère, is also headquartered in France.
Is Europe 1 still owned by Lagardère?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Europe 1 is still owned by Lagardère. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & 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.
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