The French get a taste for self-medication: a drug used in September last year was bought without a prescription. And the turnover of these drugs increased by 0.9% compared to 2008. The products most in demand are those who treat headaches and respiratory diseases.
The Doliprane, marketed by Sanofi Aventis, prances at the [...]
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The latest study published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a subsidiary of the British magazine The Economist, coronation Paris's most expensive city in the world. Second in the previous ranking in 2008, the French capital ahead of 132 other cities studied. The study does not address the purchasing power of people in different [...]
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Foreign investors are starting to look at Nigeria with a growing mistrust and the massacre of 500 Christians in central Somalia on Sunday should not reassure them. International companies present in this state, the second largest oil producer after sub-Saharan Angola, worried about the threat to the balance of power head.
"The violence [...]
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The month of February has been tough for Air France KLM. The airline announced Monday in a statement, passenger traffic down 2.2% on year in February. On this month, Air France will be transported 4.885 million passengers against 4.779 million a year earlier. The number of passenger kilometers (RPK), which corresponds to the number [...]
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To fight against their roundness, the French now have a choice. On the steps of Weight Watchers, Nestle launches an assault on the hexagonal market are overweight with the management program to consumers personalized weight Jenny Craig. Since Monday, a site in French offers interested persons the same services that the sites American, Australian, [...]
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Catering. Consultancy. Cleaning. Tutoring at home. Services have emerged as one of the engines of the French economy. They represent 57% of GDP. They have experienced an average growth of 2.9% per year against 2% for the overall economy over the last thirty years. They employed 8.9 million people or 34.4% of total employment [...]
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Casino will offer to pay shareholders a dividend of 2.65 euros for fiscal 2009, an amount of 4.7% higher than that given under the previous year.
This increase reflects the performance of distribution group in 2009. In fact, Casino recorded a net profit group share of 543 million euros, 8.6% above the profit [...]