Hachette Filipacchi Médias

Hachette Filipacchi Médias

Industry	investment funds and similar financial entities
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: [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

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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. "Lagardère and LVMH complete the sale of Paris Match - LVMH". www.lvmh.com. Retrieved 2024-12-29.
4. 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

External links

• Official website