DuFontRoy Group

DuFontRoy Group (Also Known as DuFontRoy SA in France) is a French-Swiss Mass-Media conglomerate.It is Headquartered in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. It is one of the world's largest media conglomerates along with the Bertelsmann group.

History
DuFontRoy was founded in Late 1956 by three businessmen: Pierre Dubois, Mateo Fontaine and Alban Roy in Paris, France. Originally, the 3 founded a radio station 2 months prior called: "La Bulletin" which focused on the News and current affairs.

In 1962, DFRoy founded another radio station called "Les Filler" which unlike La Bulletin, Focused on music rather than the news. Later in 1965, they opened a Movie production and Distribution unit known as DuFontRoy Film, Which is the 5th largest film studio today.

In 1986, DFRoy formed its own tv channel:TV6 with Léo Scheer becoming the lead manager of the channel. Eventually in 1987, the channel Was renamed to M6.

In 2001, Sega sold intellectual property rights to Sonic the hedgehog to DuFontRoy due to SEGA'S disinterest in the franchise from the Losing popularity of the dreamcast. DFRoy's acquisition of the franchise was completed in early 2002.

Eventually, in 2004, the company acquired RTL Group, a Luxembourg-based international media conglomerate, with a British branch being announced for the 2005 season.

In 2007,they acquired First Choice, a British Travel Agency. They later announced that they would form the World Duty Free Group, A new retail group that would be multinational and exclusive to airports.

In 2011, DuFontRoy announced that they had acquired Renaissance Learning, notable for learning websites such as Accelerated Reader.

In 2014, to celebrate the conglomerates 60th aniversarry, DuFontRoy created a new slogan: "Always Together." Which promoted inclusivity, and accessibility. The campaign proved successful in France, USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland and Spain.

In 2016, DFRoy revived RTL's Swiss branch, but instead of a pro.sat joint venture. It was instead something completely new called: RTL Express, a trilingual channel (in French, German and Itallian).

In 2021, DFRoy passed an Anti-NFT law, saying that "It's a waste, and obviously harmful to the environment." This forced production on official NFTs to stop in the company.

Today, DFRoy is the 5th Largest conglomerate in the world, with businesses for the Media and Travel Agency.

Film

 * DuFontRoy Film
 * M6 Films (for co-productions)
 * M6 Studio (Main M6 film branch)
 * Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie
 * Société Nouvelle de Distribution
 * RTL Pictures
 * DuFontRoy Animation
 * voie de la famille (produces films for Kids and Families)
 * DuFontRoy Effets visuels (a company providing visual effects, CGI, animation, motion design and other services for the film, TV, brand experience and advertising industries.)