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...They alleged that 11 Wendel executives and three board directors, including the investment company’s heir and former chair Ernest-Antoine Seillière and then chief executive Jean-Bernard Lafonta, benefited...
...I thrilled to books like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars, his classic 1939 meditation on flight or Richard Hillary’s The Last Enemy, a stirring 1942 memoir of the Battle of Britain by an...
...Zac Goldsmith, Jo Swinson, Mary Creagh, Nigel Dodds — they weren’t all rubbish....
...After two failed attempts, he finally secured it 18 months ago with his friend Antoine Arnault, part of the Arnault family who runs LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group by revenues....
...Wendel ended a chapter in its 300-year history on Thursday with the resignation of chairman Ernest-Antoine Seillière, as the French investment group also announced a halving of 2012 net profit....
...Ernest-Antoine Seillière, chairman of Wendel investment group and Hermès, the luxury goods company, agrees that: “Socialist governments tend to be far more realistic than presumed,” but adds: “Mr Hollande...
...Other names include fashion designer Valentino, French industrialist Ernest-Antoine Seillière and Roman Polanksi, who lives on the more rural side of the hill facing away from the village....
...raid in 2007, which skewed Wendel’s investments towards construction and plunged it into debt just as the credit crunch hit, more than 40 members of the family demanded the resignations of Mr Lafonta and Ernest-Antoine...
...Jean-Bernard Lafonta, the former chief executive, faces a potential bill of about €70m ($94m), while Ernest-Antoine Seillière, the aristocratic chairman of the supervisory board and descendant of the 300...
...The 43-year-old, former non-executive chairman of Areva, the French nuclear group, was called to Wendel’s board in 2008 by Ernest-Antoine Seillière, Wendel’s chairman....
...BUSINESS After the trauma of the nationalisation, Ernest-Antoine Seillière, a cousin of François de Wendel, restructured the holding company and other businesses into an investment company focused on industry...
...If we’d had a hesitant or technically weak ECB, we would have been in chaos,” Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of BusinessEurope said....
...Ernest-Antoine de Seillière, head of BusinessEurope, the pan-European employers’ group, said employment would be boosted if the EU acted more aggressively to reduce administrative burdens on companies....
...Ernest-Antoine Seillière moved to nip in the bud any expectation that he might follow Jean-Bernard Lafonta in resigning from Wendel Investments by saying he would stand for, and would be re-elected, chairman...
...The proposal from Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of BusinessEurope, underlined the anxiety among companies about securing access to credit as Europe suffers its most severe economic conditions since...
...Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of the Business Europe employers’ group, says short-time work is helping companies react flexibly to the recession without losing skills that could hamper long-term competitiveness...
...If this were not bad enough, the 900 or so family members were outraged when the board led by Ernest-Antoine Seillière handsomely rewarded the Wendel patriarch, Mr Lafonta and other executives with a €324m...
...A family feud over the performance of Wendel, the quoted company that last year paid €4bn ($5.1bn) for a 21.5 per cent stake in Saint-Gobain, the construction materials group, led to pressure on Ernest-Antoine...
...Some blame the family patriarch, Baron Ernest-Antoine Sellière, and his protégé, Jean-Bernard Lafonta, the company’s chief executive, for the debacle....
...Some blame the family patriarch, Baron Ernest-Antoine Sellière, and his protégé, Jean-Bernard Lafonta, the company’s chief executive for the debacle....
...Banks are much more selective in the way they consider extending credit,” said Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of BusinessEurope....
Europe lacks vision
...Sophie Levine-Boegner, one family shareholder, decided to lead the charge against Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière, the family patriarch and chairman of both the family holding and Wendel Investissements....
...So Mr Chirac and the rest of the political establishment were relieved when Wendel – the 300-year-old family investment vehicle of Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière, a pillar of the French business aristocracy...
...“There’s an imbalance between the central bank’s power and the power of the European institutions,” said Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of BusinessEurope, the leading pan-European business association...
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