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...Schneider Electric’s Jean-Pascal Tricoire is set to step down as chief executive after nearly 20 years at the helm, with the French automation and software company turning to an insider as it tries to capitalise...
...Gilles Schnepp, the former chief executive of industrial group Legrand who joined the Danone board in December, was named as chairman and will lead the search for a new chief executive....
...Jean-Michel Severino, a board member since 2011, will be lead independent director and head the governance committee....
...We initiate as buyers of Emerson, Legrand, Rexel, Rockwell, Schneider and Siemens....
...The Barnier campaign to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker hasn’t quite gone to plan....
...Meanwhile, the inadequate institutions for orphans and abandoned children that used to populate the Russian Federation have virtually disappeared, said Jean-Claude Legrand, an adviser on child protection...
...Jean-Sébastien Bou’s Frédéric is uneven in tone....
...Profit had also been boosted in 2011 by the sale of shares in Legrand, the electrical equipment maker. Net asset value per share rose by 56 per cent year-on-year to €116.20 at December 31....
...He sought to take over his main French competitor, Legrand, but the merger was blocked by the European Commission....
...Lisbon’s PSI 20 fell 2.4 per cent to 6,824.8 in spite of European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet saying that Portugal was not in the “same boat” as heavily debt-burdened Greece....
...The family row broke out into the open this year over allegations of lack of information to family shareholders, with some members venting their frustration at the strategy led by Jean-Bernard Lafonta, the...
...The NAO investigation centred on the department’s employment of two consultants, Christopher Legrand and Richard Theobold....
...Maxine Legrand, a former trading floor inspector who left the bank in 2004, this week complained to Agence France-Presse that SocGen’s risk controls were weak, traders were not punished for breaking rules...
...Marking a bold start for Jean-Pascal Tricoire in his first year as chief executive, the deal will be Schneider’s first big acquisition since the failed merger in 2001 with Legrand, a domestic rival, which...
...Meanwhile, Jean-Bernard Levy, Vivendi’s chief executive, told La Tribune newspaper that he wanted to increase SFR’s stake in Neuf Cegetel if shares became available....
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