Hachette Filipacchi Médias
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| Industry | investment funds and similar financial entities  |
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| Founded | 1826 |
| Founder | Louis Hachette |
| Defunct | 21 January 2008 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Parent | Lagardère Active |
| Website | https://www.hachette.com/en/ |
Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. (HFM) is a magazine publisher. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Active, a division of the media conglomerate Lagardère Group of France.
History
[edit]Hachette was founded by Louis Hachette (French pronunciation: [a.ʃɛt]) Brédifin 1826 when he purchased the Librairie Brédif; the company later became L. Hachette et Compagnie.
Hachette was purchased by Matra in 1980, a firm associated with Ténot & Filipacchi. Hachette Filipacchi was nationalised in 1981 but remained a publicly traded firm. It is a subsidiary of Lagardère Media,[1] acquired in 2004.[2]
Publications
[edit]Hachette Filipacchi Media publishes Parents, and Le Journal du Dimanche. It also published Paris Match until October 2024, when it was sold by Lagardère to LVMH.[3]
From 1985 the company also publishes various titles abroad.[4] Hachette sold its international titles to Hearst in 2011.
References
[edit]- ^ Nicholas Hewitt (11 September 2003). The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture. Cambridge University Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-521-79465-7. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ Rainer Geissler; Horst Pöttker (2009). Media, Migration, Integration: European and North American Perspectives. transcript Verlag. p. 117. ISBN 978-3-8376-1032-1. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ "Lagardère and LVMH complete the sale of Paris Match - LVMH". www.lvmh.com. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
- ^ Mania Strube (2010). "Entering emerging media markets: Analyzing the case of the Chinese magazine market". The International Journal on Media Management. 12 (3–4): 183–204. doi:10.1080/14241277.2010.527313. S2CID 168042866. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
Further reading
[edit]- Madjar, Robert (1997). Daniel Filipacchi. Editions Michel Lafon