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PARIS: French publishing and retail group Lagardere, which has been rocked by the Covid-19 pandemic, has received a nearly half-a-billion-euro rescue package underwritten by the state, the government gazette showed Sunday.

Lagardere owns Hachette publishing house, the Relay chain of airport and railway station newsagents as well as Paris Match magazine, Europe 1 radio station and other media outlets.

The group's turnover shrunk by 38 percent in the third quarter of 2020 to 1.2 billion euros as a dearth of travellers left Relay stores bereft of customers.

Travel retail revenues were down 66 percent to 393 million euros in the July-September period, after having already tumbled 55 percent in the first half of the year.

The French state guaranteed a loan of 465 million euros ($568 million) obtained by the group from 12 banks, including France's BNP Paribas and Societe Generale and Germany's Commerzbank.

The cash injection comes as the group's two biggest shareholders, media group Vivendi and hedge fund investor Amber Capital which together own 49 percent of its stock, attempt to shake up its governance.

Lagardere is run by the founder's heir Arnaud Lagardere, who has so far seen off attempts by Vivendi and Amber Capital to call an extraordinary shareholder meeting at which they planned to push for changes to the board.

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