Mediawan
Mediawan is a French media conglomerate. It was founded in December 2015 by Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse and Pierre-Antoine Capton under the legal form of a special-purpose acquisition company to acquire assets and operations in the media production and distribution business in Europe with the ambition to become "one of the largest platforms for European content".
The company went public on April 22, 2016, raising €250 million.
In July 2016, Mediawan acquired CC&C, a film production company specializing in documentaries.
In January 2017, Mediawan acquired AB Groupe for €270 million. Before that AB Groupe was owned by Claude Berda and TF1 Group.
In December 2017, it was reported that Mediawan was in talks for acquiring a stake of up to 55% in Aton Soumache and Dimitri Rassam’s animation studio ON Kids & Family for about €50 million.
In January 2018, Mediawan acquired the French television division of Luc Besson's EuropaCorp and renamed into Storia Television.
On June 6, 2018, Mediawan announced that its acquisition of a 53.53% stake in ON Entertainment was finalized
On October 11, 2018, Mediawan rebranded AB Groupe as Mediawan Thematics.
