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Glénat Éditions was founded by Jacques Glénat in 1972, when he was twenty years old. Before establishing the publishing house, he had launched a comics fanzine called Schtroumpf in 1969 while still a student.
Glénat Éditions is headquartered in central Grenoble, France, in the former Convent of St. Cecilia, a 17th-century building that previously hosted a theater. The restoration of the building took five years to complete.
Titeuf by Zep and Dragon Ball are the two bestselling series in Glénat's catalogue. Titeuf reached 16 million copies sold, while Dragon Ball reached 17 million copies in the French editions.
Glénat began publishing manga in 1991. Manga went on to represent 20 percent of the company's annual turnover as of 2009.
Glénat holds approximately 20 percent of the French comics market, making it the second largest comics publishing group in France, behind Média-Participations.
Glénat received the award for best French publisher at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1974, just two years after the company was founded.