Vivendi
French mass media holding company
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| December 9 2024 | Vivendi's shareholders approved the split project, with spin-off companies starting to trade on December 16. |
| July 2024 | Reporters Without Borders (RWB) alleged Vivendi was involved in a disinformation campaign against them and published investigation results revealing a fake website hosted by a disinformation agency called Progressif Media, which was hosted at Vivendi. |
| July 22 2024 | Vivendi announced that post-split, the publishing company would become Louis Hachette Group, with Canal+ and Havas to be listed on different stock exchanges. |
| February 13 2024 | The Conseil d'État ordered CNews, part of the Vivendi group, to better respect journalistic standards and diversity in response to a request by Reporters Without Borders (RWB). |
| January 30 2024 | Vivendi's supervisory board approved a split project to separate its businesses into four separate companies. |
| November 2023 | Finalized transactions for selling Editis and Gala magazine. |
| June 2023 | Vivendi agreed to sell Editis to Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský's Czech Media Invest. |
| July 2022 | Vivendi announced plans to spin off Editis due to potential European competition regulatory issues. |
| September 2021 | Vivendi distributed 60% of its Universal Music Group shares to shareholders and retained 10% in an IPO at Euronext Amsterdam. |
| January 2021 | Vivendi bought a 9.9% stake in the Spanish media conglomerate Prisa. |
| December 2020 | Vivendi announced a deal to buy the French media conglomerate Prisma Media from Bertelsmann. |
| October 2020 | Vivendi acquired a 12% stake in South Africa's media company, MultiChoice. |
| August 2020 | Vivendi doubled its stake in Lagardère to 23.5%, becoming the largest shareholder. |
| April 2020 | Vivendi bought a 10.6% stake in Lagardère Group, which includes the world's third-largest book publisher Hachette. |
| 2019 | Vivendi acquired Nigeria's film studio ROK Studios, including its linear channels and VOD service IROKO+. |
| 2019 | Vivendi completed its €900 million acquisition of Editis, a major French book publisher. |
| September 11 2016 | Yves Guillemot sought to buy an additional 3.5% of Ubisoft shares to raise his stake to 12.5% in an attempt to block Vivendi's takeover. |
| July 2016 | Vivendi completed its takeover of Gameloft, the world's largest mobile-games publisher, which had reported over 1 billion game downloads in 2016. |
| June 2016 | Vivendi completed a hostile takeover of Gameloft by acquiring its founders' stake after reaching 30% ownership. |
| 2015 | Vivendi bought 80% share in Dailymotion for approximately $273 million. |
| December 17 2015 | Vivendi acquired a 64.4% majority stake in Belgian online radio aggregator Radionomy, including Winamp and Shoutcast platforms. |
| October 2015 | Vivendi increased its stake in Telecom Italia to around 19% of ordinary share capital, with CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine becoming Executive Chairman. |
| October 2015 | Vivendi bought minority stakes in French video game studios Gameloft and Ubisoft. |
| April 2015 | A Bolloré shareholder raised its stake in Vivendi from 10.2 percent to 12.01 percent for €568 million. |
| August 2014 | Vivendi sold GVT to Telefônica Vivo, a subsidiary of Telefónica in Brazil. |
| June 2014 | Vincent Bolloré was appointed as president of Vivendi, with a strategic aim of developing synergies between the company's media subsidiaries. |
| May 28 2014 | Vivendi sold half of its remaining shares in Activision Blizzard for $850 million, reducing its stake to 6%. |
| November 2013 | Vivendi sold its 53% stake in Maroc Telecom to Dubai-based Etisalat for around $4.2 billion and confirmed plans to launch a demerger plan to become an international media group. |
| July 25 2013 | Activision Blizzard bought out 429 million shares from Vivendi for $5.83 billion, reducing Vivendi's stake from 63% to 11.8% by September. |
| April 4 2011 | Vodafone sold its 44% stake in French mobile service provider SFR to Vivendi for about $11 billion, giving Vivendi full control of the unit. |
| January 25 2011 | Vivendi completed the sale of its stake in NBC Universal. |
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