France maintains its rank among the global giants of consumer publishing (excluding professional edition). For the thirteenth consecutive year, the group habs Hachette is part of the trio of head of the market of general literature and education with a turnover of 2.25 billion euros, according to the ranking published Friday by the Livres Hebdo .
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Still more concentrated, the sector of the general literature represents today 40 % of the activity of the 56 first groups in the world of publishing, or about 22 billion euros. The market of the professional edition weighs, him, around 15 billion, dominated by the anglo-Dutch Reed-Elsevier, the canadian ThomsonReuters and the Dutch Wolters Kluwer.
Leader in France (Fayard, Grasset, Calmann-Lévy…), where he made 35 % of his income, Hachette, a subsidiary of Lagardère, is also number two in the Uk and fourth in the United States, where he …
