Groupe Figaro is a French media conglomerate owned by Dassault Group. [1] The company contains some of the core assets of the now extinguished Socpresse that Dassault purchased in 2006. Dassault renamed its press holdings as "Groupe Figaro" in 2011. [2]
Groupe Figaro owns Le Figaro , Madame Figaro , TV Magazine , Le Figaro Histoire, Le Figaro Magazine , Figaro Golf, Figaro Santé, Figaro enchères, Figaro nautisme and Figaro Bourse. As of 2016, its revenues were €520 million and it had 1,500 employees. [1]
Groupe Figaro also owns CCM Benchmark Group, which owns L'Internaute , Le Journal des Femmes, and several other publications. In Brazil, it owns the Portuguese-language A Revista da Mulher. In Italy, it owns the Magazine delle Donne. [3]
Its ownership by Serge Dassault was long a source of controversy in terms of conflict-of-interest, as Dassault also owned a major military supplier and served in political positions from the Union for a Popular Movement party. His son Olivier Dassault has been a member of the French National Assembly for 18 years, while at the same time holding several positions at Dassault Group and its subsidiaries, including its media subsidiaries. [4] [5] [6] [7] Serge Dassault remarked in an interview in 2004 on the public radio station France Inter that "newspapers must promulgate healthy ideas" and that "left-wing ideas are not healthy ideas." [8]
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