. 21st century In January 2000, it was announced that French arms and media conglomerate Lagardère Group had purchased a major stake in the digital television division, taking 34 percent of CanalSatellite and nearly 27.5 percent of MultiThematiques, for a price of more than million. Lagardère acquired the 30.2% MultiThematiques stake then held by Vivendi. In February 2000, Canal+ announced the merger of its Ellipse Programme TV production company into the programming provider Expand. The company continued to grow as it moved into Internet and multi-access content markets. On 15 June 2001, it took over control of Expand, leading producer of French audiovisual content. On 9 December 2000, Vivendi acquired Canal+. On 11 December 2000, Vivendi Universal was created from the merger of Canal+, Seagram, and Vivendi. Groupe Canal+, made up of Canal+ Distribution, Canal+ Régie, and the Canal+ channel, was then wholly owned by Vivendi Universal. Legislation required that the channel was held at 49%. From 2000 to 2002, Virginie Calmels successively held three positions: chief financial officer, deputy CEO, and then joint chief operating officer of the group. In 2001, co-founder Alain De Greef was fired from his position as director-general and replaced by Michel Denisot, when the organisation was restructured under the leadership of Jean-Marie Messier, chief executive of Vivendi. Criticism of Vivendi's poor share performance since the takeover grew, and in April 2002, De Greef's co-founder and CEO Pierre Lescure, clashed with Messier and was fired. In July 2003, Canal+ through its division StudioExpand announced that they've sold their animation production division Ellipse Animation to media entertainment conglomerate Média-Participations and had placed the acquired animation production subsidiary under their French-Belgian publishing arm Dargaud. In June 2004 following their sellout of Ellipsanime to Dargaud one year prior, Canal+ Group through StudioExpand announced sold their remaining assets which were Adventure Line Productions who was sold to Tele Images Group, DMD Productions, Calt and KM Production which was sold back to their founders (although the latter would eventually be reunited with Adventure Line four years later in 2008) and Starling was sold to American television production and distribution studio Sony Pictures Television. On 23 May 2005, CanalSatellite was renamed Canalsat. An alternative Canal+ logo was used between 2006 and 2009. Alternative logo, 2006–2009|thumb On 7 December 2010, all Canal+ channels, plus the 90 CanalSat channels, became available live on Microsoft's Xbox 360. In December 2013, Canal+ announced that they creating CanalStart, a new structure to support young entrepreneurs' media and new technology initiatives and projects in the form of a financial investment or contracts awarded by Canal+. CanalStart presented at SXSW 2014. In April 2015, CanalStart announced a first commercial partnership with Wildmoka, a start-up specialising in the design of enriched television services, after it won MIPLab 2015, a global B2B startup competition in TV and online video. The company was removed from the companies register on 29 November 2016. In September 2015, Vincent Bolloré, chairman of parent company Vivendi, was appointed as chairman of Canal Plus. He changed several former executives and aligned Canal+'s operations with Vivendi's. In May 2019, Groupe Canal+ announced that they've acquires Luxembourg-based French television proivder M7 Group who operated pay-TV platforms in Benelux and Central Europe for more than $1.1 billion, thrus expanding Groupe Canal+'s operations into the Benelux and Central Europe territories. The M7 Group acquisition marks Groupe Canal+'s return to the Netherlands country with Canal Digitaal being brought back to their original parent Groupe Canal+. ၂၀၁၉ခုနှစ်၊ဒီဇင်ဘာလတွင်Canal+ သည်ဖြန့်ဖြူးရေးစာချုပ် ကို​Disneyနှင့် ချုပ်ဆိုကာ ၂၀၂၀ခုနှစ် မတ်လ၃၁ရက်တွင် Disney+ကို​ပြင်သစ်တွင် မိတ်ဆက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။