Lagardère: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Lagardère (EPA: MMB) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Paris, France that owns 21 consumer brands across 3 categories.[1]
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.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Lagardère SA (also Lagardère Group, Groupe Lagardère)
- Type
- publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
- Headquarters
- 🇫🇷 Paris, France
- Founded
- 1992
- Tickers
- EPA: MMB
- Website
- www.lagardere.com
- Last verified
- · 3 sources
Lagardère in numbers
- Lagardère owns 21 consumer brands tracked here across 3 top-level categories; the largest is media & entertainment with 18 brands.[1]
- 6 of its brands originated outside France.
Everything Lagardère owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Home care (1)
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Frequently asked questions
What brands does Lagardère own?
Lagardère owns 21 consumer brands tracked here, including ELLE, Fayard, Hachette Livre, Grasset, Le Journal du Dimanche and Calmann-Lévy.
Is Lagardère a French company?
Yes. Lagardère is headquartered in Paris, France and was founded in 1992.
Who owns Lagardère?
Lagardère is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as MMB on the EPA.
Sources (3) & 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.
- [3] Lagardère announces the completion by Hachette Book Group of the acquisition of Workman Publishing — Lagardère SA, Official press release, published 23 September 2021; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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