Groupe Figaro is a French media conglomerate owned by

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

. The company contains some of the core assets of the now extinguished Socpresse that Dassault purchased in 2006. Dassault renamed its press holdings as "Groupe Figaro" in 2011.

Holdings

Groupe Figaro owns ''

Le Figaro () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', ...

'', '' Madame Figaro'', ''

TV Magazine ''TV Magazine'' was a weekly French television listings magazine owned by Figaro Group. As a supplement for the regional press, it was France's leading television listings magazine from 1987 to 2022. ''TV Magazine'' became ''Le Figaro TV Magazi ...

'', ''Le Figaro Histoire'', '' Le Figaro Magazine'', ''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 , 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 and ...

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 French public radio channel and part of Radio France. It is the successor to Paris Inter, later known as France I, and created as a merger of the France I and France II networks, first as RTF Inter in October 1963, then ren ...

'' 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 (; ) is a mass media in France, French daily afternoon list of newspapers in France, newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average print circulation, circulation of 480,000 copies per issue in 2022, including ...

'', 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