Les Echos (Groupe Les Echos - Le Parisien)

• Groupe Les Echos - Le Parisien belongs to the press and media division of the LVMH group.
• Founded in 1908, Les Echos was acquired by Pearson PLC in 1988, before being sold to LVMH in 2007.
• Le Parisien is a newspaper founded in 1944 as the successor to Le Petit Parisien, which was banned from publication at the time of the Liberation because it operated under the Occupation.
• In 1994, the paper became Aujourd'hui en France on a national scale, while the name le Parisien became a regional daily distributed in Paris and the Île-de-France region.
• The group was sold to LVMH in 2015.
• The group diversifies into a number of areas, including economics and finance, arts and culture, business services and the general press.

january 4, 2021 - Groupe Les Echos - Le Parisien marks 2020 with a bang - Source(Les Echos)

• +54% digital subscriptions between 219 and 2020
• Despite the health crisis and the structural crisis of change in the press industry, the group has been able to capitalize on its transformation strategy
• 700 journalists within the group
• A breakthrough in the digital sector, but also in innovation: Les Echos' Story is the number-one podcast in France, and Le Parisien's Code Source is in tenth place
• Progress with the integration of new brands, to foster the group's dynamism and growth
• Creation of financial information and music divisions: acquisition of Boursier.com, Investir, Mezzo and medici.tv
• A commitment to responsibility with the creation of Les Echos Planète
• The group must now succeed in monetizing its audience gains