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Industry | investment funds and similar financial entities |
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Founded | 1826 |
Founder | Louis Hachette |
Defunct | 21 January 2008 (2008-01-21) |
Headquarters | Paris, France |
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
Hachette was founded by Louis Hachette (French pronunciation: ) 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, acquired in 2004.
Publications
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.
From 1985 the company also publishes various titles abroad. Hachette sold its international titles to Hearst in 2011.
References
- 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
- Madjar, Robert (1997). Daniel Filipacchi. Editions Michel Lafon