Vivendi

Vivendi was the name of a French company, which merged in 2000 with Canal+ television networks and the Canadian company Seagram, the owner of Universal Studios film company, to become Vivendi Universal.

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The name Vivendi comes from a Latin word meaning living.

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:See Vivendi Universal for post-merger media company

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:See Veolia Environnement for demerged water and waste management company.+

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:Note: The leading software package for care management and staff organisation in Germany is also named Vivendi. The German software company CONNEXT introduced this software in 1995 and registred VIVENDI as a trademark in 1996.

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French: French can refer to more than one article:...

Company: A company in the broadest sense is an aggregation of people who stay together for a common purpose. Such usage includes people assembled...

Merged: REDIRECT Mergers and acquisitions...