Cornolti Production

What Cornolti Production does

Cornolti Production is a French independent music and entertainment production company structured as a SARL (société à responsabilité limitée), founded in October 2004 by brothers David and Thierry Cornolti and headquartered in Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson in the Grand-Est region of France. The company operates as exclusive manager, show producer, and tour operator for artists in music, humor, jazz, and blues, producing tours exclusively across Europe at tier-one venues including Accor Arena, Olympia, Paris La Défense Arena, Palais 12 Brussels, Stade Pierre Mauroy, and the Zénith network. Its active roster spans established French and international acts (Vitaa, Slimane, Keen'V, Gérard Lanvin, Mickaël Miro, Umberto Tozzi, Frédéric François, Tibz) as well as emerging artists and TV personality-driven touring acts (Laura Ferré, Marie Sarah, Magali Ripoll, Georges-Alain, John Mamann, Jérôme Anthony).

The business model is professional services revenue generated through four streams: live event production and touring, artist management, festival operations (La Mousson Du Rire founded in Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson in 2020 and Les Heures Vagabondes in partnership with the Département de la Vienne since 2024), and venue programming through Blénod Comedy Club and Total Comedy Club. In May 2023, the Cornolti family formalized a structural separation by creating Cornolti Event SARL as a wholly-owned subsidiary to handle local diffusion of non-roster artists and private event work, while Cornolti Production retains exclusive artist management and touring. The go-to-market is enterprise field sales with co-production partners (Play Two Live, Olympia Productions, DH Management) and channel partnerships with Grand-Est municipalities for comedy club programming. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; revenue accrues through producer fees on tour gross, management commissions, and festival/venue programming contracts. The company has no public funding, no external investors, and no AI/technology platform — commercial differentiation rests entirely on artist relationships, owned festival channels, and 20 years of operating history, with the VersuS Tour (Vitaa & Slimane, 400,000+ spectators, disque de diamant certification) representing the peak commercial output to date.

Name

Cornolti Production

Legal name

SARL Cornolti Production

Website

https://cornolti-production.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cornolti Production is a French independent music and live entertainment production company, founded in 2004 by the Cornolti brothers, producing and touring artists across music, humor, jazz, and blues throughout Europe, with owned festivals and comedy club programming.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Blénod-lès-pont-à-mousson

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Live Event Production and Touring: Produces and organizes tours for artists across Europe, managing venue bookings, logistics, and production execution for concerts and shows.
2. Artist Management: Acts as exclusive manager and producer for artists in the music, humor, jazz, and blues sectors, handling their career development and show production.
3. Festival Operations: Founded and directs the La Mousson Du Rire festival in Blénod-les-Pont-à-Mousson and programs Blénod Comedy Club and Total Comedy Club.
4. Venue Programming and Diffusion: Programs and diffuses artists through regional venues and festivals across the Grand-Est region of France.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cornolti Production is an entertainment production company that acts as exclusive manager, show producer, and tour operator for musical and comedy artists across Europe. The company produces and tours artists in music, humor, jazz, and blues genres at major venues, and operates its own festivals (La Mousson Du Rire, Les Heures Vagabondes) and comedy club programming through its Cornolti Event subsidiary.

Product overview

Cornolti Production is an entertainment production company founded by brothers David and Thierry Cornolti in October 2004, operating as a SARL that produces and manages musical artists, comedy shows, and festivals across Europe. The company operates through two main divisions: Cornolti Production handles exclusive artist management, show production, and touring (producing artists like VersuS/Vitaa & Slimane, N'Oubliez Pas Les Paroles, Gérard Lanvin, Tibz, Mickaël Miro); while Cornolti Event manages local programming, regional comedy clubs, and festival organization including La Mousson Du Rire and Les Heures Vagabondes. The company is headquartered in Blénod-lès-Pont-à-Mousson, France, and produces events at major venues including Accor Arena, Olympia, and various Zéniths across France.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cornolti Event: A subsidiary created in May 2023 focused on local diffusion and promotion of artists and shows not signed with Cornolti Production, including private event management and comedy club programming.
• La Mousson Du Rire
• Les Heures Vagabondes
• Blénod Comedy Club

Products and services

• VersuS Tour

Quantifiable outcome

• 400,000+ spectators attracted for VersuS Tour
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Département de la ViennecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership with the Vienne department for programming and artistic direction of Les Heures Vagabondes festival in 2024.
• Multiple Municipalities (Grand-Est Region)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2023Cornolti Event partners with municipalities in the Grand-Est region for Comedy Club programming in venues of 200-400 capacity, between November and May annually.
• DH ManagementcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Co-production partner for La Mousson Du Rire festival, the humor festival founded by Cornolti Event in Blénod-les-Pont-à-Mousson with its first edition in March 2020.
• Play Two LivecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of VersuS Tour featuring Vitaa and Slimane. Cornolti Production and Play Two Live partnered on this major touring production that attracted 400,000+ spectators at major venues including Accor Arena and La Défense Arena.
• Olympia ProductionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-producer of VersuS Tour. Contributed to the production of the successful Vitaa and Slimane tour.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• AEG Presents: Major global concert promotion and venue operator; comparable in offering (artist touring, venue programming, festival production) but operates at significantly larger scale with a much broader artist portfolio than Cornolti.
• Warner Music France: Major French record label and division of Warner Music Group; similar artist management and live promotion capabilities for French-language artists comparable to Cornolti's roster focus.
• Live Nation Entertainment: Global market leader in live entertainment, concert promotion, and artist management; competes with Cornolti at the artist-services layer and represents the upper bound of scale and capital intensity in the same industry.
• Sony Music Entertainment France: Major French record label and division of Sony Music; comparable in artist management, label services, and live touring support for roster artists that overlap with Cornolti's booking and touring activities.
• Universal Music France: Major French record label and artist services division of Universal Music Group; comparable as it sits upstream of Cornolti in the artist value chain, managing many of the same French artists and providing label-side services that overlap with Cornolti's management role.

Direct peers

• Olympia Productions: French live entertainment production company associated with the iconic Olympia venue in Paris; co-produced VersuS Tour with Cornolti, directly comparable as a French concert producer and tour operator serving similar artist and venue segments.
• Play Two Live: French concert and live event production company; co-produced VersuS Tour (400,000+ spectators) with Cornolti, comparable in scale, business model, and target market of arena/zenith-tier French and European artists.

Others

• Havas Events: French event management and live experience agency within Havas; comparable on the corporate/private event and live experience production side, but oriented to brand activations rather than artist-centric concert touring.
• TF1: Major French broadcaster whose TV show N'Oubliez Pas Les Paroles was adapted by Cornolti into a live touring karaoké format (80,000+ spectators); connected through IP licensing rather than direct competition, illustrating Cornolti's ability to extend TV IP into live events.

Emerging players

• Believe: French-headquartered digital music company serving independent artists and labels with distribution and label services; partial overlap with Cornolti in French-market artist services but operates via a digital distribution model rather than live touring.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ThierryCornolti
• Facebookfacebook.com/cornoltiproduction
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cornolti-production

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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