Les Échos is the first daily French

France

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 financial newspaper

Newspaper

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, formerly owned by the British media group Pearson PLC

Pearson PLC

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, and sold in 2007 to the French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH

LVMH

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It was created in 1908 by the brothers Robert and Emile Servan-Schreiber and became a daily newspaper in 1928.
It has a web site (http://www.lesechos.fr) and several blogs. The newspaper was bought by Pearson in 1988.

In 2004 the newspaper won the EPICA award.

External links

Les Échos website Les Échos mobile website Regular French Press Review - Radio France International