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...Je ne suis plus d’accord de faire des choix de sociétés où je vais respirer cet air-là, où mon petit bébé va avoir la bronchiolite parce que cet air-là, parce que ce choix de société fait ça....
...My grandfather, also a Lozérien, went for the competitive Post and Telecommunications exam and moved to Paris for his first job, allowing my father to attend a good lycée and a Grande Ecole....
...One of the best performers is Société Internationale de Plantations d’Hévéas, which runs rubber, cocoa and coffee plantations in Africa. It is up by 170 per cent so far in the year to date....
...Through its Société Nationale de Crédit et d’Investissement fund, it is taking a stake in Planetary Resources plus a seat on its board....
...The Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs was founded in 1882, an amalgamation of the historical collections of the Société du Musée des Arts Décoratifs with the Union Centrale des Beaux-Arts Appliqués à l’...
...RCS & RDS, one of the region’s biggest cable and telecommunications operators, is thought to be one private company considering listing....
...People close to Vivendi say that Mr Bolloré, together with Arnaud de Puyfontaine, Vivendi’s soon-to-be chief executive and a respected French businessman with a solid transatlantic record, are unlikely to...
...The appointment suggests that Mr de Puyfontaine could become a central figure in the media and content side of Vivendi following the spin-off of SFR....
...There were many who crossed him along the way, but he shrewdly allied himself to Max Mosley, then president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, motorsport’s governing body, to outmanoeuvre...
...The privatisation of 80 per cent in the Société des Télécommunications du Tchad (Sotel-Tchad) could offer investors a late chance to enter into the booming mobile phone market in Africa....
...The Peugeot family’s 25 per cent stake in PSA Peugeot Citroën is held through FFP, a listed investment company, which has other interests in France and Africa, from aerospace to telecommunications, worth...
...France’s Société Générale fell 8.5 per cent to €27.43 while Crédit Agricole slipped 8.6 per cent to €6.56....
...The French telecommunications and media conglomerate, which owns assets ranging from the Call of Duty video game to a Brazilian telephone company, also cut this year’s net income target from €3bn to €2.85bn...
...It argues that competition conditions in 2006 did not account for the entry of telecommunications operators and internet companies into the television market. Vivendi and Bouygues declined to comment....
...BNP Paribas fell 6.3 per cent to €31.30 and Société Générale, among the lenders sued in the US, dropped 8.6 per cent to €20.25....
...But in May, Attijariwafa, known as AWB, Morocco’s biggest bank by assets, secured another in a line of sub-Saharan acquisitions, in the shape of a majority shareholding in Société Camerounaise de Banque,...
...Significant gains by London-listed BT failed to buoy peripheral European telecommunications stocks....
...The person said the €1.5bn debt package – from La Caixa, Santander, Mediobanca and Société Générale – was flexible and would not require margin calls if Abertis shares fell....
...It boosted the telecommunications sector. Stockholm-listed Ericsson gained 1.1 per cent to €74.00....
...In Paris, Société Générale was down 0.7 per cent to €44.75 while BNP Paribas lost 1.5 per cent to €54.39....
...The telecommunications sector was targeted as Deutsche Telekom dropped 2 per cent to €10.21 in the aftermath of S&P Equity cutting the stock to “sell” from “hold”....
...In Milan, Banco Popolare soared 3.9 per cent to €4.75 after Société Générale started coverage of the stock with a “buy” rating....
...Telecommunications company Alcatel Lucent also rose 2.8 per cent to €2.15....
...BNP Paribas lost 5 per cent to €45.986, while Société Générale dropped 4.5 per cent to €35.15....
...SFR, the telecommunications arm which includes France’s second largest mobile operator, did better than its rivals in recruiting new customers, adding a net 559,000 subscribers following strong demand for...
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