Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné

What Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné does

Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné is a regional French newspaper founded in 1923, operated by SAS Compagnie des Publications et Médias Rhône-Alpes (CPMRA), a private publishing group headquartered in Grenoble. The publication covers the Isère and Dauphiné region across categories including news, dossiers, society, economy, politics, territories, mountain, sport, leisure, culture, and a dedicated legal/financial section ("Droit et Chiffre"). Its core product is a digital newspaper accessible via the affiches.fr website and a digital reader ("Liseuse") hosted on the Mozzo publishing platform, with content monetized primarily through annual individual subscriptions billed in euros.

Beyond editorial content, the company operates a regulated legal announcement business through its wholly-owned LegalCie platform, which provides compliant publishing of legal notices (annonces légales) and public procurement announcements (marchés publics) for legal entities and local governments across all French departments. The business is split across two dedicated portals — one for legal/business notices and one for local government notices — and integrates with the Marchés Sécurisés platform for public procurement. Under the CPMRA parent, the company retains a portfolio of 14+ regional and specialist publication brands (including La Vie Nouvelle, Le Mémo de l'Isère, Le Faucigny, Montagne Leaders, La Mairie Magazine, Montagnes Magazine, Skieur Magazine, Grimper, and Big Bike), creating a multi-vertical regional media ecosystem with combined subscription, advertising, legal notice, and procurement service revenue streams.

Name

Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné

Legal name

SAS Compagnie des Publications et Médias Rhône-Alpes (CPMRA)

Website

https://affiches.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné is a regional French newspaper founded in 1923, operated by CPMRA, covering Isère and Dauphiné with subscription-based digital editions, authorized legal announcement publishing via LegalCie, and public procurement notice services for businesses and local governments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Grenoble

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Newspaper Subscriptions: Subscription-based access to digital edition and online content. Individual subscriptions provide single-user access to the subscriber edition.
2. Legal Announcements Services: Publication services for legal announcements (annonces légales) for both legal entities and local governments, including dedicated portals for consultation.
3. Public Markets Services: Publication and management services for public procurement announcements (marchés publics) through dedicated platform.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné is a regional newspaper and digital media publication covering the Isère and Dauphiné region of France, founded in 1923. The company operates authorized legal announcement publication services through its LegalCie platform for businesses and local governments, public procurement notice services, and a digital edition reader (Liseuse) for subscribers. Headquartered in Grenoble and operated under CPMRA, it serves both individual readers via subscriptions and professional/government clients requiring legal publication services.

Product overview

Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné operates as a regional media conglomerate under parent company Compagnie des Publications et Médias Rhône-Alpes (CPMRA). The core offering is the Les Affiches newspaper providing news coverage across Isère and Savoie, complemented by the LegalCie platform for legal notice publication and consultation services, digital edition access via the Liseuse reader, and public procurement notice services. The portfolio includes multiple related titles: La Vie Nouvelle, Le Mémo de l'Isère, Le Faucigny, Montagne Leaders, La Mairie Magazine, and Beaux Quartiers. Revenue streams include subscriptions, advertising, legal notice publication fees, and public procurement service charges.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• LegalCie: Service d'annonces légales de Cie des Médias, providing a platform for publication of legal notices and public procurement announcements across all French departments.
• Droit et Chiffre

Products and services

• Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné (Regional Newspaper) Regional newspaper publication covering news across Isère and Savoie departments, with categories including Infos, Dossiers, Société, Économie, Politique, Territoires, Montagne, Sport, Loisirs, Culture, Agenda, and Droit et Chiffre. Targeted at residents of the Isère and Dauphiné region.
• LegalCie (Legal Announcement Publication Service) Legal notice publication service enabling businesses to publish legally required announcements in all French departments through a compliant digital platform. Targeted at businesses, legal professionals, and organizations with legal publication obligations.
• Annonces légales juridiques (Legal Notices Consultation Portal) Dedicated portal for consulting legal notices related to businesses and corporations. Available to businesses, legal professionals, and the general public.
• Annonces légales collectivités (Local Government Legal Notices Portal) Portal for consulting legal notices related to local government and public entities. Available to municipalities, departments, public agencies, and the general public.
• Liseuse (Digital Edition Reader) Digital reading platform providing access to the online newspaper edition for subscribers. Available to individual subscribers of Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné.
• Marchés Publics (Public Procurement Notice Service) Public procurement notice service integrated with external platform marches-securises.fr for publishing and consulting public tenders. Targeted at municipalities, public agencies, and businesses responding to public tenders.
• Abonnement (Subscription Service) Annual subscription service granting access to premium content, digital edition, and legal notice consultation services. Available to individual readers, with payment via credit card or bank check.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• LegalCieminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLegalCie is the legal announcement service of Cie des Médias, providing a simple, fast, and compliant platform for publishing legal announcements and public markets across all French departments.
• ECRITELminorOthersECRITEL is the hosting provider for Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné, headquartered at Immeuble Concept, 4-10 rue Mozart, 92110 Clichy.
• Marchés SécurisésminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership for public procurement announcements (marchés publics) through the Marchés Sécurisés platform.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Le Parisien: Major French daily with both regional Île-de-France roots and national reach. Overlaps with Les Affiches as a daily press outlet and authorized legal-announcement publisher, but at substantially larger national scale.
• Ouest-France: France's largest regional newspaper by circulation. Operates a comparable regional press model — subscriptions, advertising, and authorized legal-notice publication — but at much greater national scale, making it a broader incumbent reference point for Les Affiches' strategic positioning.
• La Voix du Nord: Major regional newspaper in northern France with a similar business model of regional daily press plus legal-announcement services. Wider geographic reach than Les Affiches but operates an analogous subscription and authorized-publisher stack.

Direct peers

• La Montagne: Regional daily newspaper based in Clermont-Ferrand serving the Auvergne region. Comparable as a French regional press outlet with authorized legal-announcement status and a subscription-driven model similar to Les Affiches.
• La Tribune: French regional economic newspaper focused on business and financial news. Comparable to the 'Économie' and 'Droit et Chiffre' sections of Les Affiches and serves a similar professional readership with a subscription-led model.
• Nice-Matin: Regional daily newspaper serving the Côte d'Azur, comparable in scale and structure to Les Affiches. Functions as an authorized legal-announcement publisher with a subscription- and advertising-driven model similar to a Dauphiné regional daily.
• Le Dauphiné Libéré: Dominant regional daily newspaper covering Isère, Savoie, and Drôme in the Dauphiné/Rhône-Alpes region. It is the most direct competitor to Les Affiches de Grenoble et du Dauphiné for local news readership, advertising, and authorized legal-announcement publication in the same geography.
• Le Progrès: Major regional daily newspaper covering the Rhône-Alpes region including Lyon. Overlaps directly with Les Affiches geographically and operates a comparable authorized legal-announcement publisher business model.
• L'Est Républicain: Regional daily newspaper in eastern France. Comparable as an authorized legal-announcement publisher with a subscription-based digital and print model that mirrors Les Affiches' core business mix.

Emerging players

• Actu.fr: Digital-first French regional news network covering local news across multiple départements. Competes with Les Affiches for digital local-news audience in Isère, but lacks the legal-announcement authorization and print heritage of CPMRA.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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