Louis Hachette Group

{{Short description|French publishing and media conglomerate}}

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{{Expand French|Louis Hachette Group|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Louis Hachette Group S.A.

| logo = File:Louis Hachette Group logo.png

| image = Hôtel du 4 rue de Presbourg from the Arc de Triomphe, Paris 8 December 2014.jpg

| image_caption = Headquarters of Louis Hachette Group S.A. at Rue de Presbourg, Paris

| type = Public

| traded_as = {{EuronextParis|ALHG|FR001400TL40|XPAR}}
Euronext Growth

| industry = Publishing, Media, Travel Retail, Live Entertainment, Sports club

| predecessors = Vivendi

| founded = {{plainlist|

• {{start date and age|1826}} (as Hachette)
• {{start date and age|2024|10|29}} (as Louis Hachette Group)

}}

| founder = {{plainlist|

• Louis Hachette
• Arnaud de Puyfontaine
• Yannick Bolloré

}}

| hq_location_city = Paris

| hq_location_country = France

| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people = Jean-Christophe Thiery (CEO)
Yannick Bolloré (director)
Grégoire Castaing (deputy CEO)

| revenue = {{Increase}} {{Euro|8.3 billion|link=yes}}{{Cite web |last=MarketScreener |date=2024-12-17 |title=Louis Hachette S A : Shares start trading in Louis Hachette Group, leader in publishing, travel retail and media in France and abroad - MarketScreener |url=https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/LOUIS-HACHETTE-GROUP-S-A-178441139/news/Louis-Hachette-S-A-Shares-start-trading-in-Louis-Hachette-Group-leader-in-publishing-travel-reta-48606592/ |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=www.marketscreener.com |language=en-US}}

| revenue_year = 2023

| owner = Bolloré family (31.4%)

| num_employees = 32,500 (2024){{Cite web |last=MarketScreener |date=2024-12-17 |title=Louis Hachette S A : Shares start trading in Louis Hachette Group, leader in publishing, travel retail and media in France and abroad - MarketScreener |url=https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/LOUIS-HACHETTE-GROUP-S-A-178441139/news/Louis-Hachette-S-A-Shares-start-trading-in-Louis-Hachette-Group-leader-in-publishing-travel-reta-48606592/ |access-date=2024-12-18 |website=www.marketscreener.com |language=en-US}}

| subsid = Lagardère (66.53%)
Prisma Media

| website = {{URL|https://www.louishachettegroup.com/en/|www.louishachettegroup.com}}

}}

Louis Hachette Group S.A. (LHG) is a French conglomerate specialising in publishing, periodicals, media and distribution, with its origins in the Hachette bookshop founded in 1826. Louis Hachette Group is controlled by French businessman Vincent Bolloré.{{Cite web |title=Le groupe Bolloré veut créer Louis Hachette Group, une holding pour ses activités d’édition |url=https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/le-groupe-bollore-veut-creer-louis-hachette-group-une-holding-pour-ses-activites-dedition |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=Livres Hebdo |language=fr}}

Formed from the spin-off of Vivendi in December 2024, the new independent entity holds nearly 66.5 percent of the Lagardère group (Hachette Livre, Larousse, Fayard, Relay, Le Le Journal du dimanche, Europe 1, etc.) as well as 100% of the French press group Prisma Media (Voici, Femme Actuelle, Geo (France), Télé-Loisirs, Capital, etc.).{{Cite web |title=Le Conseil de surveillance de Vivendi arrête les résolutions de scission du groupe qui seront soumises aux actionnaires le 9 décembre 2024 |url=https://live.euronext.com/fr/products/equities/company-news/2024-10-29-conseil-surveillance-vivendi-arrete-resolutions-scission |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=live.euronext.com}}

France's leading publisher since 2004 and the world's 6th largest publishing group, Louis Hachette Group has its origins in the Hachette publishing group, founded by Louis Hachette in 1826 after the purchase of the Parisian bookshop Brédif.{{cite web|access-date=2024-10-31 |first=Jim |language=en |last=Milliot {{!}} |title=RELX Remained the World's Largest Publisher in 2020 |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/Frankfurt-Book-Fair/article/87466-frankfurt-book-fair-preview-2021-relx-rules.html |website=PublishersWeekly.com}}{{Cite book |last=Mollier |first=Jean-Yves |title=Louis Hachette, 1800-1864 : le fondateur d'un empire |date=1999 |publisher=Fayard |isbn=2-213-60279-4 |location=Paris |page=130-135}}