The story
In October 2000, the Lagardère Group announced that they're bringing together its media division with all of its audiovisual and new media activities Europe 1 Communication (radio, advertising and audiovisual management) and Lagardère Net (formerly Grolier interactive ) under one single brand named Lagardère Active which will be divided into two companies named Lagardere Active Broadcast and Lagardere Active Broadband.
In December 2006, Lagardère announced that they had merged Lagardére Active with Hachette Filipacchi Médias to form the new worldwide media division under the Lagardère Active name. Their advertising agencies Lagardère Active Publicite and Interdeco had been merged into France's most largest advertising company named Lagardère Publicité known internationally outside France as Lagardère Global Advertising. One day later, Lagardère Active had announced they signed an agreement to acquire Newshub to increase their fast-growing media activities.
In January 2011, it was announced that Lagardère Active had sold their international magazine business including their British titles Inside Soap to New York-based American multinational newspaper and magazine company and the owner of Cosmopolitan magazine Hearst Communications.
In January 2013, Lagardère Active announced that they had acquired online ticket service BilletRèduc.com.
In 2018, Arnaud Lagardère announced that Lagardère would be disposing of its media assets, which they carried out throughout the year. This included their stake in Marie Claire, their radio businesses in Eastern Europe and Africa, and their press titles in France, including Elle.
From Wikipedia’s article on Lagardère News, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3