Editing Lagardère News (section)

==History==
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.<ref>{{cite web|title=LAGARDÈRE ACTIVE MEDIA|url=https://www.lagardere.com/en/press-release/lagardere-active-media-2/|website=Lagardere|date=December 11, 2006|access-date=May 21, 2024}}</ref> One day later, Lagardère Active had announced they signed an agreement to acquire Newshub to increase their fast-growing media activities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Agreement to acquire Newsweb|url=https://www.lagardere.com/en/press-release/agreement-to-acquire-newsweb/|website=Lagardère|date=December 12, 2006|access-date=May 20, 2024}}</ref>

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)|Cosmopolitan]] magazine [[Hearst Communications]].

In January 2013, Lagardère Active announced that they had acquired online ticket service BilletRèduc.com<ref>{{cite web|title=Lagardère Active acquires BilletRéduc.com|url=https://www.lagardere.com/en/press-release/lagardere-active-acquires-billetreduc-com/|website=Lagardère|date=January 7, 2013|access-date=May 21, 2024}}</ref>

In 2018, [[Arnaud Lagardère]] announced that Lagardère would be disposing of its media assets, which they carried out throughout the year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Strategy |url=http://www.lagardere.com/businesses/lagardere-active/strategy-600423.html |website=Lagardère |access-date=14 September 2019}}</ref> This included their stake in Marie Claire, their radio businesses in Eastern Europe and Africa, and their press titles in France, including [[Elle (magazine)|Elle]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Burlet|first=Fleur|date=2019-02-15|title=Lagardère Completes Sale of French Elle to Czech Media Invest|url=https://wwd.com/business-news/media/lagardere-completes-sale-of-french-elle-to-czech-media-invest-1203027440/|access-date=2020-12-10|website=WWD|language=en-US}}</ref>