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...Additional reporting by Mark Wembridge...
...The French and Italian moves mark a very public return for Mr Sawiris, whose activities in the telecoms market had quietened since he sold the majority of his telecoms assets to VimpelCom....
...Nevertheless, the leftwing Liberation newspaper claims the “security trap” is closing around Mr Valls and Mr Hollande, “who are failing to mark their distance from Nicolas Sarkozy”....
...“Any sign of wavering will be sanctioned, which would increase the cost of debt,” Mr Moscovici said in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche newspaper to mark the return of ministers from their summer...
...He only became EADS’s chief executive in May and the deal was meant to put his defining mark on both his company and the history of Europe’s manufacturing industry....
...Within two days of informing the cabinet, Whitehall had gathered a small group of experts, including Ivan Rogers and Julian Miller who would take care of the politics, and Mark Russell and Bernard Gray,...
...At a valuation of $700m, the deal would mark a significant decline in the value of TCW’s business....
...It is not quite up there with François Mitterrand’s nationalisations of the early 1980s, but France’s new Socialist president certainly left a mark on his country’s business elite this week....
...In an interview to mark the final approval of his company’s £6.4bn payment for full ownership of Britain’s International Power, Mr Mestrallet, GDF’s chief executive, insists: “We no longer belong to that...
...Additional reporting by Mark Wembridge in London, James Boxell in Paris and James Shotter in Zurich...
...Hermès, the luxury goods company, agrees that: “Socialist governments tend to be far more realistic than presumed,” but adds: “Mr Hollande lacks business and government experience so there is a question mark...
...Chevron’s bullish targets mark the company out from its peers, most of which are struggling to keep production steady. But they are not the only things that set Chevron apart....
...Additional reporting by James Boxell in Paris...
...Reporting by Carola Hoyos, Andrew Parker, David Oakley, Anousha Sakoui and Tom Burgis in London, James Boxell in Paris and Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin...
...It was attended by Barack Obama, the US president, and attracted prominent delegates from the dotcom world, including Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, helping to show the French public that...
...Nevertheless, in an attempt to mark a clear break with her high-spending approach, he highlighted a few eye-catching facts about how the group has financed its expansion in recent years....
...A sale of the Transdev stake would mark the latest attempt by Mr Frérot to radically break with the legacy left to him by Henri Proglio, the former boss of Veolia who left to take up the reins at EDF, the...
...The reappearance of Marks and Spencer on the Champs Elysées after a 10-year absence has caused quite a stir in the past few weeks, with eager Parisians queueing up to reacquaint themselves with the sensible...
...A key test will be whether details of the plan – including the definition of capital and the method used to mark down sovereign debt – stand up to close scrutiny from analysts....
...The plan, which is due to be announced in October, is the second part of an attempt by Christophe de Margerie, chief executive, to stamp his mark on the company – one of the five oil “super-majors”....
...The $960m sale of Vizada marks a decent return for Apax, which paid $400m for the Telenor business in 2007 and $75m for the France Telecom unit in 2006....
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