Lagardère SCA engages in content publishing, production, broadcasting, and distribution businesses worldwide. It operates through four divisions: Lagardère Publishing, Lagardère Travel Retail, Lagardère Active, and Lagardère Sports and Entertainment. The Lagardère Publishing division includes book publishing and e-publishing businesses, which cover the areas of education, general literature, illustrated books, partworks, dictionaries, youth works, mobile games, board games, and distribution in English, French, and Spanish languages. The Lagardère Travel Retail division is involved in retail activities in travel areas and concessions in travel essentials, duty free and fashion, and food services fields. This segment operates retail outlets under its own international store names, such as Relay, Hubiz, 1Minute, Hub Convenience, Discover, Tech2go, Aelia Duty Free, The Fashion Gallery, The Fashion Place, Eye Love, So Chocolate, Bread&Co., Hello!, So! Coffee, Trib's, Vino Volo, Natoo, etc., as well as store names with a local identity comprising Sydney Opera House, BuY Paris Duty Free, and Frankfurter Markthalle. It also operates stores under franchises or licenses, with retail partners that include TripAdvisor, Fnac, iStore, Marks & Spencer, Hermès, Victoria's Secret, Nespresso, Costa Coffee, Burger King, Dean & Deluca, and Paul. The Lagardère Active division engages in the magazine publishing, radio, television channels, audiovisual production and distribution, digital, and advertising sales brokerage businesses. The Lagardère Sports and Entertainment division is involved in marketing rights management; the organization and management of events; consulting in the management and operation of stadiums and multipurpose venues; and content production and media rights management, athlete management, and brand consulting activities. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Paris, France.
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