Groupe Figaro is a French media conglomerate owned by

Dassault Group Dassault Group (; also GIM Dassault or Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault SAS) is a French corporate group, group of companies established in 1929 with the creation of Société des Avions Marcel Bloch (now Dassault Aviation) by Marcel Dassault, a ...

. The company contains some of the core assets of the now extinguished

Socpresse Socpresse was a French corporation which controlled the conservative daily newspaper ''Le Figaro'', the weekly magazine ''L'Express'', 40% of the weekly ''Le Journal du Dimanche'', '' Valeurs Actuelles'', and the football club FC Nantes. The com ...

that Dassault purchased in 2006. Dassault renamed its press holdings as "Groupe Figaro" in 2011.

Holdings

Groupe Figaro owns ''

Le Figaro ''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French newspapers of reco ...

'', ''

Madame Figaro ''Madame Figaro'' is a French magazine supplement to the Saturday edition of the daily newspaper ''Le Figaro'', focusing on and catering to women. History and profile The first edition was published in 1980. ''Madame Figaro'' was spearheaded by ...

'', ''

TV Magazine ''TV Magazine'' is a weekly French television listings magazine owned by Groupe Figaro. History and profile ''TV Magazine'' was started in 1987. The magazine had been published by Hachette Filipacchi until 2001 when it began to be published Q ...

'', ''Le Figaro Histoire'', ''

Le Figaro Magazine ''Le Figaro Magazine'' is a French language weekly news magazine published in Paris, France. The magazine is the weekly supplement of the daily newspaper ''Le Figaro''. History and profile The magazine is the first supplement of ''Le Figaro'' n ...

'', ''Figaro Golf'', ''Figaro Santé'', ''Figaro enchères'', ''Figaro nautisme'' and ''Figaro Bourse''. As of 2016, its revenues were €520 million and it had 1,500 employees. Groupe Figaro also owns CCM Benchmark Group, which owns ''

L'Internaute Linternaute.com (webified name for ''L'Internaute'' or "the internet navigator") is a major French news site, launched in 2000. As of November 2020, it was the 99th most visited website in France. ''L'Internaute'' is published by Groupe Figaro. ...

'', Le Journal des Femmes, and several other publications. In Brazil, it owns the Portuguese-language ''A Revista da Mulher''. In Italy, it owns the ''Magazine delle Donne''.

Ownership

Its ownership by

Serge Dassault Serge Dassault (; born Serge Paul André Bloch; 4 April 1925 – 28 May 2018) was a French engineer, businessman and politician. He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Dassault Group, and a conservative politician. According to ' ...

was long a source of controversy in terms of conflict-of-interest, as Dassault also owned a major military supplier and served in political positions from the Union for a Popular Movement party. His son

Olivier Dassault Olivier Dassault (; 1 June 1951 – 7 March 2021) was a French politician and billionaire businessman, who served as a deputy in the National Assembly. Early life and education Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, he was the son of businessman an ...

has been a member of the French National Assembly for 18 years, while at the same time holding several positions at

and its subsidiaries, including its media subsidiaries. Serge Dassault remarked in an interview in 2004 on the public radio station ''

France Inter France Inter () is a major French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is a "generalist" station, aiming to provide a wide national audience with a full service of news and spoken-word programming, both serious and entertaining, li ...

'' that "newspapers must promulgate healthy ideas" and that "left-wing ideas are not healthy ideas.""M. Dassault veut une presse aux « idées saines »"
''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

'', 12 December 2004. Retrieved 27 January 2007.

References

{{reflist Conglomerate companies of France Newspaper companies of France Conservatism in France Dassault Group Year of establishment missing Magazine publishing companies of France