Who owns Hachette UK?
Hachette UK 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
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, London
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- EPA: MMB
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Hachette UK
Hachette UK is the second-largest trade publisher in Britain, with more than 60 publishing houses organised into ten divisions including Orion, Hodder & Stoughton, John Murray Press, Headline, Quercus, Bookouture and Octopus for illustrated books. Its 2025 awards included the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Jason Roberts' Every Living Thing, published by Quercus.
Ownership timeline of Hachette UK
Where Hachette UK 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)
- Grupo Anaya (1988)
- Hachette Book Group
- Hachette Livre (1826)
- 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.
🇬🇧 Hachette UK and other British brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 543 brands that began in the United Kingdom. 282 of them (52%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Hachette UK among them.
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- Eventim Apollo — CTS Eventim 🇩🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Hachette UK?
The parent company of Hachette UK is Lagardère, a publicly listed company headquartered in France.
Is Hachette UK British or French?
Hachette UK originated in the United Kingdom, but it is owned today by Lagardère, which is headquartered in France. So Hachette UK is a British-origin brand under French ownership.
Is Hachette UK still owned by Lagardère?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Hachette UK 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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