Lagardère Publishing is the world’s third-largest consumer publishing group in the trade and education markets, operating mainly under the Hachette Livre imprint. It has more than 200 publishing brands and publishes over 15,000 new titles a year in a dozen languages.
Lagardère Publishing serves all segments of the consumer publishing market, including textbooks and extra-curricular works, general literature, children and young adult titles, comic books, practical guides, humanities and social sciences works, fine arts books, tourist guides, historical works, dictionaries and partworks. It stands out for its broad range of paper, audio and digital formats and the diverse business lines covering publishing, marketing and distribution that it brings together.
It is also diversifying beyond books into adjacent markets such as Board Games and Premium Stationery in France and in the international market.
Lagardère Travel Retail, the world’s third-largest travel retail merchant, has a network of over 4,800 points of sale in transit hubs and concessions across nearly 300 airports, and 700 train and underground stations.
It has operations in three business segments: Travel Essentials, Duty Free & Fashion, and Dining.
With operations in over 50 countries on five continents, Lagardère Travel Retail aims to make every passenger’s journey more enjoyable thanks to its network of international proprietary banners, distinctive local concepts and partnerships with leading retail brands.
Lagardère News comprises iconic media brands with three press titles (Le Journal du Dimanche, Le JDNews and Le JDMag) which reach 5 million readers every month in their various print and digital formats (1), as well as the licensing business for the Elle brand, the world’s number one women’s media network.
Lagardère Radio, which includes Europe 1 and the music radio stations, Europe 2 and RFM, as well as an advertising sales brokerage business, is a major player in the French radio market, with more than 5.3 million daily listeners[2].
Lagardère Live Entertainment is the first company in France to operate in all three areas of live entertainment:
- managing iconic venues (Casino de Paris and Folies Bergère) and larger new-generation venues (Arkéa Arena and Arena du Pays d’Aix);
- producing concerts and shows (L Productions);
- hosting and providing local promotional services for French and international productions (Euterpe Promotion).
With a 14,000-strong membership, Lagardère Paris Racing’s main activity is to organize sports activities at the Croix Catelan site (Paris, France). This site boasts 44 tennis courts (14 of which are natural clay courts), three padel courts, two outdoor swimming pools (including an Olympic pool) and fitness facilities.
[1] Source: ACPM OneNext Global 2025 H1; Brand audience over 30 days.
[2] Source: Médiamétrie EAR National; November-December 2025.