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Largest Publishing Public Companies in France
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Lagardère, Louis Hachette, Vialife, Entreprendre and Imprimerie Chirat.
 | Lagardere SA is in the business of content publishing, production, broadcasting, and distribution. It is also engaged in the travel retail business with various brands such as Relay and Aelia Duty-Free, and other selective distribution brands. The company operates through divisions: Lagardere Publishing, Lagardere Travel Retail, and others. | $21 | -11% | $3B | $8B | 0.7x | 4.9x | ||
| Louis Hachette Group is engaged in Publishing, Travel Retail and Magazines and Online Media. | $2 | +0% | $2B | $7B | 0.6x | 4.4x | ||
| Vialife SA specializes in marketing press publications on the Internet, by subscription or by selling individual issues. Its products include magazines, newspapers, periodicals, professional, and trade journals. It offers student magazines, digital magazines, living well magazines, cultural magazines, sports magazines, women and men's magazines, and others. | $14 | -11% | $6M | $5M | 0.9x | 22.6x | ||
| Entreprendre SA is engaged in the publishing industry. The company has got its own online newspaper. | $8 | -- | $5M | $4M | — | — | ||
| Imprimerie Chirat SA specializes in printing and publishing of books, magazines, catalogs, and directories. It handles computer-assisted publication, laser burning, offset printing, folding, assembling and binding print materials, packaging and covering. | $4 | -31% | $4M | $7M | 0.3x | 4.9x | ||
| Editions du Signe SA is a publishing company. The company publishes comics, health and wellbeing books, novels, business books, and religious books. | $0 | -36% | $147K | $488K | — | — | ||
| Median | $6 | -11% | $5M | $6M | 0.7x | 4.9x |
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