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About Vivendi
Vivendi, a global player in content creation, distribution and monetization, is looking forward to a year of transition. In June 2018, we announced our new strategic positioning as a video content and mobile games company with three divisions: Universal Music Group (UMG), Vivendi Games & Digital Entertainment and Canal+ Group.

A year of transition
Vivendi Universal, a leading international media and content group, is the result of the merger between Vivendi and Seagram. The company has operations in more than 20 countries with more than 100 brands.

The transaction was completed on December 31, 2000 as a reverse merger where Seagram became Vivendi Universal's parent company and its shares were exchanged for those of Vivendi SA. In 2003, after months of negotiations with General Electric (GE), Vivendi Universal agreed to sell 80% of its stake in NBCUniversal to GE for $30 billion cash plus $9 billion worth of GE stock. A part from NBCUniversal deal Vivendi sold other assets such as Activision Blizzard, Universal Music Group and Canal+ France among others

Changing our strategic positioning
Vivendi is a French multinational mass media conglomerate headquartered in Paris. It has three core business units: content creation and distribution, games, and digital transformation.

In the context of its strategic repositioning and change of ownership, Vivendi will focus on four main activities:

Content creation and distribution with its pay-TV operator Canal+ Group (subsidiary)
Games with its Gameloft subsidiary (a leading worldwide mobile game publisher), as well as Activision Blizzard (with whom it signed a partnership agreement to develop new games based on X-Men characters), Ubisoft and others Digital transformation through partnerships such as Orange, Vodafone or Telecom Italia

Looking to the future
Vivendi is looking to the future, and it will continue moving forward with its strategic plan. The company will keep on adapting to the market, which means that you should expect some changes in your favorite games. While we don't know what these changes might be, we can say with confidence that they're coming soon.