Louis Hachette Group

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Louis Hachette Group S.A.

Headquarters of Louis Hachette Group S.A. at Rue de Presbourg, Paris
Company type	Public
Traded as	Euronext Paris: ALHG
Industry	Publishing, Media, Travel Retail, Live Entertainment, Sports club
Predecessors	Vivendi
Founded	1826; 199 years ago (1826) (as Hachette) October 29, 2024; 2 months ago (2024-10-29) (ad Louis Hachette Group)
Founder	Louis Hachette
Headquarters	Paris , France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jean-Christophe Thiery (CEO) Yannick Bolloré (director) Grégoire Castaing (deputy CEO)
Revenue	€8.3 billion[1] (2023)
Owner	Bolloré family (31.4%)
Number of employees	32,500 (2024)[2]
Subsidiaries	Lagardère (66.53%) Prisma Media
Website	www.louishachettegroup.com

Louis Hachette Group S.A., abbreviated as 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.^[3]

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.).^[4]

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.^[5][6]