TF1, leading private television group in France

TF1 in brief:

	Chairman and CEO: Nonce Paolini, since 31 July 2008
	Headcount at 31 December 2011: 4,122 employees
	Sales: €2.6 billion in 2011
	Net profit (attributable to the Group): €183 million in 2011
	Majority shareholder: Bouygues, with 43.6% of TF1's capital at end-2011
	Market listings: Euronext Paris, Eurolist (compartment A) and SBF 120

Strategy

Nonce Paolini

TF1 is France’s leading French general-interest television channel, with a 23.7% audience share¹ in 2011, and it is also an integrated communications group developing activities in growth markets around its core business. The Group’s aim is to inform and entertain through all media channels.

While continuing to strengthen its core television business with free and pay channels, it has diversified into the internet, audiovisual rights, production, teleshopping, e-commerce and licences.

The strategy of the TF1 group for the coming years is to combine the efficiency of mass media with the closeness of digital media: to deliver strong content and develop opportunities to reach all sectors of the public through technological progress.

TF1 The Group is present in free television with:

TF1, the events channel, France’s No. 1;

TMC, the leading DTT (Digital Terrestrial Television) channel and No. 5 in France, and NT1 (since 1 July 2010).

The Group is also involved in pay television with:

Eurosport, the leading pan-European platform reaching 123 million homes;

TV Breizh, the leading cable/satellite channel;

the Discovery Unit (Ushuaïa TV, Histoire, Stylía), affinity channels setting the benchmark for the multi-channel offering in France;

LCI, news analysis and insight;

TF6 and Série Club, 50%-owned with M6.

Claire Chazal Since privatisation in 1987, when Bouygues acquired a stake in its capital, TF1 has created new business lines of high added value, drawing on its operations as a publisher and programme broadcaster.