Louis Hachette Group announced to the AMF that, on January 9, it had crossed the upward threshold of two-thirds of voting rights in Lagardère, following the allocation of double voting rights.
The publishing group, created from a spin-off of Vivendi in 2024, specified that it now holds 93,935,006 Lagardère shares representing 157,628,245 voting rights, accounting for 66.29% of the capital and 69.88% of the voting rights in the company.
Lagardère S.A. is one of the world's leading companies specializing in content publishing, production, distribution and distribution whose highly performing brands generate and engage quality audiences thanks to its virtual and physical networks. Net sales down by activity as follows:
- Lagardère Travel Retail (65%): distribution of newspaper, communication and cultural leisure items;
- Lagardère Publishing (32.1%): publishing of books and works in the areas of general literature and education as well as illustrated and instalment publications;
- other (2.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (22.4%), European Union (24.9%), the United Kingdom (6.8%), Europe (8.6%), the United States (24.2%), North America (2.4%), Asia and Oceania (6%), Africa and Latin America (2.7%) and the Middle East (2%).
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