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Reorganization at Editis: Perrin editions get closer to Robert Laffont

2022-07-04T14:16:45.859Z


The Editis group begins its reorganization following the takeover of its competitor Hachette. Editions Perrin announced on Monday their "reconciliation" with Editions Robert Laffont, within the same Editis group, which is heading towards a reorganization due to the takeover of its competitor Hachette. "The Robert Laffont editions and the Perrin editions are starting a rapprochement," said the two companies in a joint press release. “First French history publisher, Éditions Perrin wishes


Editions Perrin announced on Monday their "reconciliation" with Editions Robert Laffont, within the same Editis group, which is heading towards a reorganization due to the takeover of its competitor Hachette.

"The Robert Laffont editions and the Perrin editions are starting a rapprochement," said the two companies in a joint press release.

“First French history publisher, Éditions Perrin wishes to accelerate its development, thanks to a dynamic partnership with the first general literature publisher of the Editis group, Robert Laffont”, they added.

Details and future implications of this merger were not disclosed.

Sales of publishing houses to come

Since its takeover in 2018, Editis has been the publishing subsidiary of the Vivendi group, owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

However, by succeeding in May its takeover bid for Lagardère, Vivendi got its hands on its biggest rival in the sector, Hachette Livres.

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Vivendi therefore temporarily owns numbers one and two in publishing, and will have to make sales to avoid a dominant position, in accordance with European competition rules.

But the group does not communicate on its intentions.

Perrin, who had taken this name after the takeover in 1884 by Émile Perrin, was also formerly publisher of literature, among others of the first book by André Gide in 1891. The house has devoted itself entirely to its specialty, history, since 1945 .

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Perrin is, for example, the publisher of the Goncourt Prize for Biography 2022, awarded in May to Jean-Pierre Langellier for that of the poet and Head of State Léopold Sédar Senghor.

Bought by the Groupe de la Cité in 1959, the house was then part of Havas, then of Vivendi Universal Publishing, and finally of Editis, where it was first linked to another house of the group, Plon editions.

It had taken its independence during a reorganization of the group in October 2020.

Robert Laffont is a general publisher, that of novelists Marc Levy and Ken Follett, among others.

Source: lefigaro

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