In 1852 Jean-Henri help to set up the Compagnie Générale des Eaux, it was at one time part of Vivendi and is currently known as VEOLIA, and the first French rail network.
Culligan was acquired by United States Filter in 1998; US Filter was acquired by Vivendi in 1999.
Meanwhile, in 2004, NBC became a subsidiary of NBC Universal, when its parent company, General Electric, acquired 80% of Vivendi Universal Entertainment from Vivendi.
In 1998 the show was taken over by Studios USA (then a division of USA Networks, later renamed Universal Television after being sold to Vivendi Universal; and NBC Universal Television after VU Entertainment was sold to NBC owner General Electric).
Video game rights to Tolkien's literary works were first licensed to Vivendi, which produced The Fellowship of the Ring in 2002 and The Hobbit in 2003.
In March 2007, Holwell issued an opinion on the res judicata effects of U.S. class action judgments in jurisdictions outside the U.S., ruling that certain European plaintiffs could join a shareholder lawsuit against Vivendi that asserted claims under U.S. law.
Toys for Bob was given the opportunity to revive a Vivendi franchise, and they chose the Spyro the Dragon franchise.
This is also the first Skylanders game not to be owned by Vivendi.
Negotiations were taking place with Vivendi Universal to sell the company for an estimated £275 million, but those coincided with the internet bubble bursting and the deal collapsed.
However, the series instead aired on USA Network (which would become a sister network to NBC, following Vivendi Universal's 2003 purchase of NBC), along with Saved by the Bell: The New Class, which aired concurrently on both networks.
In July 2004, Vivendi sold Studio Babelsberg to the investment company FBB (Filmbetriebe Berlin Brandenburg GmbH), which has Carl Woebcken and Christoph Fisser as shareholders.
This will be one of the first projects to be put into development by Vivendi Entertainment next to the Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson-directed film, New York, I Love You.
Following a spin-off of the assets of Attel, Cerina rebuilt the business through Crédit des Alpes, now a successful investment bank advising on large international transactions, including being credited for putting together the US$4.2 billion acquisition by Vivendi of Brazil telecoms company Global Village Telecom (GVT) in 2009—one of the largest telecoms deals in the world.
Zapffe compared this mechanism to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's concept of the life-lie from the play The Wild Duck, where the family has achieved a tolerable modus vivendi by ignoring the skeletons and by permitting each member to live in a dreamworld of his own.
The track "We Are Something Awful" is a Laziest Men On Mars song, but was not available on MP3.com at the time of Vivendi's sale of the site to CNET in 2003.
The Vivendi Cup is a European Tour golf tournament which was played for the first time from 23 to 26 September 2010 at Golf de Joyenval, Chambourcy near Paris in France.
In 2004, Vivendi Universal Games sold one of its divisions, Knowledge Adventure to a group of private investors.