Express-Expansion publishes sixteen titles including the French current affairs magazine,
L’Express and potential buyers include the Dassault arms group which owns the centre-right newspaper,
Le Figaro.
Vivendi chief executive Jean-René Fourtou has already announced his intention to offload the US publishing house, Houghton Mifflin and the international operations of the pay-TV network, Canal Plus (see Canal Plus Network To Be Fragmented).
