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In September 2002, Dupuis Audiovisuel, via its distribution division Dupuis Audiovisuel International, had appointed sales management Christophe Vervaeke to handle Dupuis Audiovisuel's licensing rights for Dutch-speaking countries.
In June 2004, Média-Participations, who owns French animation production studios Dargaud Marina and its subsidiary Ellipsanime, had brought out Belgian/French audiovisual production company Dupuis Audiovisuel alongside its parent publishing house Dupuis and its animation studio Belvision for €300 million to increase its audiovisual production activities. The acquisition of Dupuis Audiovisual and its parent Dupuis gave Média-Participations two new animation production companies, as Dupuis Audiovisuel became part of the group's expanded animation business, with Dupuis Audiovisuel's distribution business division Dupuis Distribution being folded into Dargaud Marina's own distribution arm, Dargaud Distribution, with them assuming Dupuis Audiovisuel's production library, and would distribute the latter's future television series.
In September 2017, Dupuis Audiovisuel partnered with Smurfs owner and global licensor IMPS (now Peyo Company) under Peyo Productions to produce a television reboot of the global comic franchise The Smurfs.
In June 2020, Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel announced an adaptation of the comic book series Dad for French broadcaster M6 entitled Living with Dad with Caroline Duvochel, CEO of both the former and fellow Média-Participations' animatiom department studios, serving as executive producer, while Dupuis Edition & Audivisuel'a fellow Belgian animation studio DreamWall, Angoulême-based animation studio Ellipse Studio Angoulême and Madlab Animations (a joint venture between Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel's fellow animation subsidiary Ellipsanime Productions and Ankama Animations) handled animation services for the series.
In June 2022, during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, alongside their parent company Dupuis and its owner Media Participations, brought all of their French animation production labels (which were Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, Dargaud Media and Ellipsanime Productions alongside their in-house Paris and Angoulême-based animation production studio division Ellipse Studio) under one umbrella group named Ellipse Animation, with Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel being transitioned from its former publishing parent Dupuis to the new animation production group while it continued producing series as a label within the group.
From Wikipedia’s article on Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3