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Lagardere SA
Lagardere SA is a French group built around two main businesses: book publishing and travel retail. Through Hachette, it publishes and distributes books, including fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, textbooks, and digital formats. Through Lagardere Travel Retail, it runs bookstores, newsstands, convenience stores, and food outlets in airports, train stations, and other travel hubs. Its customers are readers, students, travelers, and the owners of the spaces where it operates, such as airports and rail operators. The company makes money by selling books and related content, earning royalties from authors and rights holders, and collecting sales from its retail locations. In travel retail, it often pays for the right to operate in a location and then earns from what passengers buy inside those sites. What makes Lagardere different is that it sits in two very different parts of the value chain. In publishing, it owns and markets intellectual property that can be sold in many formats and languages. In travel retail, it focuses on high-traffic, location-based retail where convenience matters more than brand loyalty, giving it a business that mixes long-lived content ownership with concession-based consumer sales.
Lagardere SA is a French group built around two main businesses: book publishing and travel retail. Through Hachette, it publishes and distributes books, including fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, textbooks, and digital formats. Through Lagardere Travel Retail, it runs bookstores, newsstands, convenience stores, and food outlets in airports, train stations, and other travel hubs.
Its customers are readers, students, travelers, and the owners of the spaces where it operates, such as airports and rail operators. The company makes money by selling books and related content, earning royalties from authors and rights holders, and collecting sales from its retail locations. In travel retail, it often pays for the right to operate in a location and then earns from what passengers buy inside those sites.
What makes Lagardere different is that it sits in two very different parts of the value chain. In publishing, it owns and markets intellectual property that can be sold in many formats and languages. In travel retail, it focuses on high-traffic, location-based retail where convenience matters more than brand loyalty, giving it a business that mixes long-lived content ownership with concession-based consumer sales.
Solid first half: Louis Hachette Group reported H1 2026 revenue of EUR 4.5 billion and EBITA of more than EUR 200 million, saying the business held up well despite a tough geopolitical and macro backdrop.
Publishing resilient: Lagardere Publishing grew revenue 1.3% like-for-like to more than EUR 1.3 billion, helped by strong book releases in France, the U.S., the U.K. and Spanish-speaking markets, plus growth in digital audio and board games.
Travel Retail still growing: Lagardere Travel Retail revenue rose 3.3% like-for-like to almost EUR 3 billion, but management said the Middle East crisis and airport disruptions weighed on performance, especially in France and parts of Q2.
Cash generation improved: Group cash flow from operations increased 50% to EUR 84 million, and net debt fell from EUR 1.9 billion to EUR 1.7 billion at the end of June 2026.
Prisma and Live improved: Lagardere Live returned to positive EBITDA and Prisma stayed EBITDA-positive despite a 25% revenue decline, both helped by cost cuts and restructuring.
AI and legal upside: Management said Lagardere Publishing is part of the Anthropic settlement beneficiaries but it is too early to quantify any amount, and the EUR 66 million Google-related inflow is expected by year-end, not yet received.
