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...Growing up in the wetlands of France’s Camargue region, where the Rhône meets the Mediterranean, Mr Hoffmann inherited his father’s passion for conservation....
...(Financial Times) Paul Parker, a former head of mergers and acquisitions at Barclays, has joined Goldman Sachs as a co-chairman of its mergers group....
...Mr Fourtou carved a very public reputation as a corporate problem solver – first at the then-nationalised Rhone-Poulenc, the pharmaceuticals company where his restructuring plan tripled sales in a decade...
...During his eight years at Rhône-Poulenc he was travelling to France four times a year. “I understood France more than the UK or any other region.” (I ask whether he speaks French....
...Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said tariffs have had “a very small impact on the US market”: neither sending cell prices soaring, nor rebuilding the domestic manufacturing...
...He has been actively involved in consulting for many companies including Siemens AG, Audi AG, Schneider SA, and GlaxoSmithklineBeechams Plc....
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...£49.99 AG Wines Bollinger, La Grande Année 2000 and 1999 Champagne The 2000 is very emphatic and full-bodied....
...The Germans have yet to digest the way the French blocked Siemens’ efforts to expand in France and absorbed Hoechst after it merged with Rhône-Poulenc to create Aventis....
...So much so that he is seeking government approval to build a new generation nuclear plant in the Rhone valley, showcasing the Atmea reactor being jointly developed by Areva of France and its Japanese partner...
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...He revived it and ultimately merged it with France’s Rhône-Poulenc to create Aventis....
...In the 1990s, Hoechst split off its chemicals business and, after being rebuffed by Bayer, merged with Frances’s Rhône-Poulenc to form Aventis....
...For instance, Rhône-Poulenc and Hoechst required a deposit of shares within five and seven days prior to the shareholders meeting, respectively....
...The five other companies in the top 10 are Sanofi-Aventis, the French drug group (Aventis was created by a merger between France’s Rhone-Poulenc and Germany’s Hoechst); Santander, the Spanish banking group...
...Rhône-Poulenc has since been subsumed into Aventis, and then Sanofi-Aventis, the pharmaceuticals group....
...The model was the south-eastern city of Grenoble, where Hewlett-Packard was one of the first foreign companies to recognise an unusual centre of co-operation between these normally hostile French interest...
...France Telecom fell 2 per cent to €24.93 following a report that its Orange unit had co-operated with SFR and Bouygues to share the French mobile phone market....
...And who was the main French architect of the original Aventis merger that combined France's Rhône Poulenc with Germany's Hoechst?...
...Autoroutes Paris Rhin Rhone, the French motorway operator, made a strong market debut. The stock closed at €42.70, compared with its offer price of €40.50, but off a high for the day of €43.14....
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