It was published with the encouragement of a regional trade association, the Syndicat des industriels métallurgiques ardennais.

[1] In response to the invasion of France by Germany during World War I, the newspaper moved its office to Paris and remained there.

After Paris was occupied by German forces, the magazine continued to publish but limited itself to factual information such as commodity prices.

Vivendi Universal sold its trade and medical publishing businesses to a group led by Cinven in 2001, who created Approvia.

[8] In 2013, Bridgepoint sold Groupe Moniteur to Infopro Digital, then owned by Apax Partners France,[9] today known as Seven2.

[11] Usinenouvelle.com is a site for business and industrial news, republishing articles from the L’Usine nouvelle magazine and from other sources such as wire services.