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On 11 December 2000, Vivendi Universal was created from the merger of Groupe Canal+, Canadian company Seagram Company Ltd (owner of Universal Studios), and Vivendi. [7] Vivendi Universal acquired MP3.com and the leading American publisher Houghton Mifflin in 2001. To raise the funds, Vivendi Universal sold its trade and medical publishing ...
Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment (division of Universal Pictures, now owned by Cinedigm) Activision Blizzard (5.8% stake, now owned by Microsoft Gaming) Maroc Telecom (53% stake, now owned by Etisalat) SFR (sold to Altice) Global Village Telecom (sold to Telefônica Vivo) Vivendi Environnement (divested through IPO between 2000 and 2002, now known ...
When Vivendi Universal sold all of its media operations to General Electric in October 2003, Vivendi Universal held on to Vivendi Universal Games, which was re-organized as a direct division of the conglomerate. [16] On March 3, 2006, with the sale completed, Vivendi Universal announced they would be dropping the "Universal" part of their name ...
In 2000, Seagram's entertainment division was sold to Vivendi, and, after Vivendi had acquired French media giant Groupe Canal+, it became part of the new company, Vivendi Universal, on 11 December 2000. [19] The beverage division was sold to Diageo and Pernod Ricard. By the time Vivendi began auctioning off Seagram's beverages business, the ...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb's Third Point owns a substantial stake in Vivendi SE and is "evaluating" the French media giant's plan to sell a stake in its Universal Music Group to ...
France-based Vivendi, parent of Universal Music Group, has sold 7.1% of that company’s share capital to Pershing Square Holdings, the investment firm managed by billionaire Bill Ackman, for $2.8 ...
Vivendi — whose holdings currently include Universal Music Group, Gameloft video game producer and cable network Canal+ — was accused of providing fraudulent information to shareholders ...
IAC Inc. is an American holding company that owns brands across 100 countries, mostly in media and Internet. [2] The company originated in 1996 as HSN Inc. as the holding company of Home Shopping Network and USA Network before changing its name to USA Networks, Inc. in 1999 and its television assets were sold to Vivendi in 2002.