Groupe Le Monde (previously known as groupe La Vie-Le Monde) or Société éditrice du Monde is a French mass media company that publishes Le Monde newspaper. Their headquarters are located in Paris, France.
History
Before the end of the year 2006, the group La Vie-Le Monde, majority shareholder since 2005 of the group Les Journaux du Midi (Midi Libre, L'Indépendant, Centre Presse), formed a plan to take control of the regional daily papers of the company Groupe Hachette-Filipacchi (Groupe Nice-matin, La Provence) through a holding company with the subsidiary Lagardère. The new entity would then become the owner of all the regional daily newspapers in the southeast of France, from Perpignan to Nice and Corsica. This plan having fallen through by 2007, les Journaux du Midi were bought by Groupe Sud-Ouest, whereas the journals of the South-east came under the aegis of Groupe Hersant Média. In 2006, Groupe Monde sold Éditions Desclée de Brouwer to the Swiss publisher Parole et Silence, specializing in Christian spirituality.
In July 2007, Pierre Jeantet succeeded Jean-Marie Colombiani as president of the Board,[1] with Bruno Pattino as vice-president and Éric Fottorino as the executive editor of Le Monde. After his resignation on September 17, 2007, following disagreements regarding the management and development strategy with the editorial staff of Le Monde, a leading shareholder in the group,[2]