Who owns Grupo Anaya?
Grupo Anaya is owned by Lagardère (France, EPA: MMB), which has owned the brand since 2004.[1][2]
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
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇫🇷 France, Paris
- Origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain, Madrid
- Founded
- 1988
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- EPA: MMB
- Last verified
- · 2 sources
About Grupo Anaya
Grupo Anaya is Lagardère Publishing's Spanish-language business, comprising imprints including Anaya, Bruño, Alianza, Algaida and the Spanish Larousse. In 2025 it saw the Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances awarded to Amin Maalouf for his body of work, and from March that year its titles have been distributed in North America by Hachette Book Group.
Ownership timeline of Grupo Anaya
Where Grupo Anaya 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 1 (1955)
- Europe 2
- Fayard (1857)
- Grasset (1907)
- 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.
🇪🇸 Grupo Anaya and other Spanish brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 119 brands that began in Spain. 55 of them (46%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Grupo Anaya among them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Grupo Anaya?
The parent company of Grupo Anaya is Lagardère, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Grupo Anaya Spanish or French?
Grupo Anaya originated in Spain in 1988, but it is owned today by Lagardère, which is headquartered in France. So Grupo Anaya is a Spanish-origin brand under French ownership.
Since when has Lagardère owned Grupo Anaya?
Lagardère has owned Grupo Anaya since 2004.
Is Grupo Anaya still owned by Lagardère?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Grupo Anaya 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] Grupo Anaya: Quiénes somos — Nuestra historia — Grupo Anaya, S.A., Official document; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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