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...The story was updated with additional comments from Carson Block and Casino...
...The stock is controlled by French businessman Jean-Charles Naouri, who put the group’s parent companies into a court-protected restructuring procedure last year....
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Breakneck speed Luckin Coffee was founded in the south-east coastal city of Xiamen by a serial entrepreneur, Charles Lu....
...Edward Carson, leader of the Ulster Unionists, saw the proposal as “wrecking manoeuvre” against the entire plan for home rule rather than a goal....
...Prince Charles presented him with a CBE for “services to the economy” in 2017. The following year, former prime minister David Cameron signed up as Greensill’s adviser....
...The supermarket group’s chairman and chief executive Jean-Charles Naouri, a fixture of the French establishment, was attacked by aggressive American shortseller Carson Block in December 2015, in Muddy...
...If you are part of the Parisian business elite, you are probably a staunch ally of Jean-Charles Naouri or a fierce critic....
...When sizing up the big beasts of the French business elite, there are few who dispute that Jean-Charles Naouri is the smartest of the lot....
...Casino’s stock jumped on Friday following majority shareholder Jean-Charles Naouri’s decision to seek court protection for its indebted parent company....
...One of Naouri’s main antagonists — infamous short seller Carson Block — has a good explainer on Bernheim’s invention....
...“Five years ago there was both less activist activity and what was happening was less sophisticated,” said Charles-Eduard van Rossum, president of Ravel & Co, an investment banking boutique....
...Casino’s chief executive Jean-Charles Naouri stunned corporate France last month when he filed for bankruptcy protection across the heavily indebted companies through which he controls the French retailer...
...Among his past prominent short-selling critics is Muddy Waters, run by hedge fund manager Carson Block ....
...The most prominent of these was brash US short-seller Carson Block, who told the FT that the AMF’s market manipulation probe into his fund Muddy Waters, was “tainted by bias”....
...Chief executive Jean-Charles Naouri — a stalwart of the French establishment — controls the group through three publicly listed investment holding companies, each with their own debts....
...These hedge funds are betting against the closely-held ownership structure set up by Casino’s chief executive and controlling shareholder Jean-Charles Naouri....
...Jean-Charles Naouri, chief executive, controls Casino through a series of three publicly listed investment holding companies each with their own debts....
...Casino’s founder Jean-Charles Naouri controls the hypermarket through a complex series of holding companies of which Rallye is the largest....
...Through Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), he notes by contrast the starlings’ “bullying colonialism”, their introduction in the 1890s to ensure that North America had as many as possible of the birds...
...And chief executive Jean-Charles Naouri may have other priorities. Buying back shares would help preserve Casino’s credit rating and put pressure on short sellers....
...Jean-Charles Naouri represents the quiet face of the French elite....
...Luminaries like Senator Charles Schumer of New York, probably the next party leader in the Senate, also joined the “Nimby” brigade....
...Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who has caught up with Mr Trump in recent polls, was worth $26m....
...Another question is which candidate will benefit most from the $900m that Charles and David Koch, the industrialist billionaire brothers, and their network of rich donors intend to splurge on the race....
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