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Vivendi
Vivendi SE (stylized in all lowercase) is a French investment company headquartered in Paris. It currently wholly-owns Gameloft as well as a number of investments in several companies, primarily involved in content, entertainment, media, and telecommunications. In 2000, Vivendi Universal was created from the merger with Canal+ S.A., Groupe Canal+ and Seagram, Seagram Company Ltd., owner of Universal Pictures. Vivendi sold 80% of Universal to the now-defunct General Electric (GE, owner of NBC) in 2004, forming what is now NBCUniversal. In 2006, it sold off most of the Universal components and its name reverted to Vivendi. GE bought out Vivendi's 20% stake in NBCUniversal during Comcast's Acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast, acquisition of the latter. , Vivendi's chairman Yannick Bolloré is also CEO of Havas, which was spun off from Vivendi in 2000, later became a subsidiary, and was spun off again in 2024. From 2021, Vivendi has spun off its fully-owned assets in order to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gameloft
Gameloft SE is a French video game company based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Ubisoft co-founder Michel Guillemot. The company operates 18 development studios worldwide, and publishes games for mobile devices, video game consoles, and Personal computer, PC. Formerly a public company traded at the Euronext Paris, Paris Bourse, Gameloft was acquired by media conglomerate Vivendi in 2016. History Game development strategy Gameloft was founded by Michel Guillemot, one of the five founders of Ubisoft, on 14 December 1999. By February 2009, Gameloft had shipped over 200 million copies of its games since its IPO, as well as 2 million daily downloads of its games via the App Store (iOS), App Store for iOS. Gameloft's chief financial officer (CFO), Alexandre de Rochefort, noted that the company's games generated about 400 times more revenue on iOS than on Android (operating system), Android, partially because Google did not develop its Google Play storefront to "entice custo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as Universal Music Group or Universal Music) is a Netherlands, Dutch–United States, American multinational Music industry, music corporation under Law of the Netherlands, Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands, and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California. The biggest music company in the world, it is one of the "Record label#Major labels, Big Three" record labels, along with Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group. Tencent acquired ten percent of Universal Music Group in March 2020 for €3 billion and acquired an additional ten percent stake in January 2021. Pershing Square Holdings later acquired ten percent of UMG prior to its Initial public offering, IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. The French Vincent Bolloré, Bolloré family still owns 28 percent of UMG (18 percent directly, and ten percent through Vive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havas
Havas NV () is a French multinational corporation, multinational advertising agency, advertising and public relations company, with its registered office and head office in Puteaux, France. Havas operates in more than 100 countries. The group is structured into three main operational divisions, offering a wide range of services including Online advertising, digital advertising, direct marketing, media planning and buying, corporate communications, sales promotion, design, human resources, sports marketing, multimedia interactive communications, public relations, and innovation consulting. History The original Havas was the world's first news agency, created in 1835 by Charles-Louis Havas. The Agence France-Presse news agency comes from it. Havas was acquired by Vivendi in 1998, and renamed Vivendi Universal Publishing. VUP in turn merged with Lagardère Group, Lagardère to become Editis in 2004. The company which today bears the name Havas is itself a former subsidiary of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC (abbreviated as NBCU and Trade name, doing business as NBCUniversal or Comcast NBCUniversal since 2013) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational mass media and Show business, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate that is a subsidiary of Comcast and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is mostly involved in the media and entertainment industry, named for its two most significant divisions: the NBC, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)—one of the United States' Big Three (television networks), Big Three television networks—and Universal Pictures, one of the Major film studios, major Hollywood film studios. It also has a significant presence in broadcasting through a portfolio of domestic and international properties, including USA Network, USA, Syfy, Bravo (American TV network), Bravo, Oxygen (TV network), Oxygen, E!, Telemundo, Golf Channel, CNBC, Universo (TV channel), Universo, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Hachette Group
Louis Hachette Group S.A. (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. Formed from the spin-off of Vivendi in December 2024, the new independent entity holds 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.). 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. History In December 2023, Vivendi announced that it was carrying out a feasibility study into a plan to split its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) was an American Multinational corporation, multinational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the New York (state), state of New York and headquartered in Boston. Over the years, the company had multiple divisions, including GE Aerospace, aerospace, GE Power, energy, GE HealthCare, healthcare, lighting, locomotives, appliances, and GE Capital, finance. In 2020, GE ranked among the Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 500 as the 33rd largest firm in the United States by gross revenue. In 2023, the company was ranked 64th in the Forbes Global 2000, ''Forbes'' Global 2000. In 2011, GE ranked among the Fortune 20 as the 14th most profitable company, but later very severely underperformed the market (by about 75%) as its profitability collapsed. Two employees of GE—Irving Langmuir (1932) and Ivar Giaever (1973)—have been awarded the Nobel Prize. From 1986 until 2013, GE was the owner of the NBC television network through its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seagram
The Seagram Company Ltd. (which trade name, traded as Seagram's) was a Canadian multinational beverage and during the last few years of its existence, entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate formerly headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Originally a Distilled beverage, distiller of Canadian whisky based in Waterloo, Ontario, it was in the 1990s the largest owner of alcoholic beverage brands in the world. Toward the end of its independent existence, it also controlled various entertainment and other business ventures. Its purchase of MCA Inc., whose assets included Universal Pictures and its theme parks, was financed through the sale of Seagram's 25% holding of chemical company DuPont, a position it acquired in 1981. Unable to maintain financial stability, Seagram later imploded, with its beverage assets sold to industry titans Diageo and Pernod Ricard. Universal's television holdings were sold to Barry Diller, and the balance of the Universal entertainment empire and wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaud De Puyfontaine
Arnaud de Puyfontaine (; born 26 April 1964) is a French businessman who has been the chief executive officer of Vivendi since 2014. Early life Arnaud de Puyfontaine graduated from ESCP Europe in 1988, Institut Multimédias (1992) and the Harvard Business School. Career Puyfontaine joined ''Le Figaro'' in order to develop relations between the newspaper and the Grandes écoles. He worked there for 3 years while completing his education. After a short period as a consultant at Arthur Andersen, he went to Indonesia to perform his national service. He then joined back ''Le Figaro'' and managed La Solitaire du Figaro under the direction of Philippe Villin. In 1995 he joined Emap. He began by managing ''Télé Poche'' and '' Studio Magazine'' and was in charge of the purchase of Télé Star and Télé Star Jeux. He created the Emap Star division where he became deputy director, and in July 1998 he was appointed managing director of Emap France group. The creation of the Emap Star d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Dejouany
Guy Dejouany (15 December 1920 – 14 November 2011) was the CEO of Compagnie Générale des Eaux, a French company (currently known as Vivendi) and part of France's CAC 40, from 1976 to 1995. A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, he succeeded George Huvelin at Compagnie Générale des Eaux, and was also chief executive officer of Vinci PLC from 1990 to 1996. He was the honorary chairman of Vivendi Universal. He played an important role in Vinci PLC's supervisory board as chairman from 1988 to 1990. He was the director of Vivendi Universal Publishing, and served as a member of the supervisory boards of Dalkia and Compagnie des Eaux et de l'Ozone. He was a permanent representative of Vivendi Universal on the board of directors of UGC, as well as the part-owner and director of Alcatel-Lucent. He was also a member of the councils D E monitoring of Dalkia and of the Ozone and Water-company. Biography Dejouany was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MediaForEurope
MediaForEurope, officially MFE – MediaForEurope N.V., formerly Mediaset Group (), is a Dutch-domiciled Italian-based media and communications company which is majority-owned by the Berlusconi family's Fininvest Group. MFE specialises primarily in free-to-air and pay-TV production and distribution on multiple platforms, as well as in film and multimedia production and distribution, and advertising sales. It has operations in Italy (through Mediaset S.p.A.) and Spain (through Mediaset España). It also is the largest single shareholder in ProSiebenSat.1 Media at 26.58%. Its registered office is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, while its management, operational, administrative and tax headquarters are located in Cologno Monzese, in the metropolitan city of Milan. Since 1994 the president of MFE is Fedele Confalonieri. The group has been listed on the Milan Stock Exchange since 1996 and the majority shareholder is Fininvest, a holding company founded in the 1970s by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolloré
Bolloré SE () is a French conglomerate headquartered in Puteaux, on the western outskirts of Paris, France. Founded in 1822, the company has interests in Vivendi, international freight forwarding, oil storage and pipelines in France, solid state batteries, access control systems for buildings, palm oil and rubber in Asia and Africa, olive groves in the US and wine production in France. In 2004, the group ranked amongst the top 200 European companies. The company is listed on the Euronext exchange in Paris, but the Bolloré family retains majority control of the company through a complex and indirect holding structure. The company is led by Cyrille Bolloré, the son of Vincent Bolloré. History The firm was founded in 1822, in Ergué-Gabéric, near Quimper, Brittany by Nicolas Le Marié (1797–1870), as a paper manufacturer named ''Papeteries d'Odet''. Beginning in 1863, it was directed by Jean-René Bolloré (1818–1881), a nephew by marriage who had obtained a medical d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
