Groupe Madrigall is a French

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. It is the parent company of several publishing houses and distribution companies including:

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, Flammarion and

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. Groupe Madrigall is the third largest French publishing group.

History

Groupe Madrigall is a

founded in 1992. It is controlled by Antoine Gallimard, director of

, and his sister Isabelle Gallimard, director of

Mercure de France The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was publis ...

. Groupe Madrigall took over a majority share in Éditions Gallimard in the late 1990s. At the end of the 1990s, the Gallimard family repurchased shares from two of the company's three main corporate shareholders, namely the Italian publisher Einaudi (then owned by the holding company of

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via

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) and the French media agency

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. Havas was forced to sell its shares after it was ruled that Havas's merger with

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rendered it a direct competitor. As a result, Madrigall had a 60 percent majority holding in Éditions Gallimard. In January 2003, Madrigall repurchased the Gallimard holdings of five other outside shareholders for . As a result, Madrigall had a 98 percent majority holding. In September 2012, Madrigall acquired Groupe Flammarion, previously owned by the Italian

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, for . In October 2013, the French conglomerate

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acquired a stake of up to 9.5% in Groupe Madrigall to the tune of , in particular to pay off Groupe Madrigall's debt after the purchase of Flammarion in 2012.

Structure

* Publishing subsidiaries **

** Gallimard Jeunesse ** Gallimard Loisirs (tourist guides) **

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** Éditions de la Table ronde ** ** ** Futuropolis fr">:fr:Futuropolis (maison d'édition)">fr** Les Grandes Personnes ** Éditions Flammarion ** ** ** **

** **

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* Distribution subsidiaries ** Sodis ** Centre de diffusion de l'édition (CDE) ** France Édition Diffusion (FED) ** Sofédis ** Éditions Foliade (Belgium) ** Éditions des Cinq Frontières (Switzerland) ** Gallimard Limitée & Socadis (Canada) ** Union Distribution ** Flammarion Diffusion ** Eden Livres (

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s, a total of eight, in

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, Nancy and

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