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, [...]
Mar
6
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 [...]
Mar
4
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 [...]
Feb
9
Industries French armaments are ironed on the offensive abroad. In 2009, they exported nearly 8 billion euros of military equipment (up 31% over 2008), returning to levels of 2000. Followed closely behind by Israel and the United States, Britain and Russia, France wants to reclaim its rank as third largest exporter of military equipment, [...]
Jan
16
After opening on a bullish note Friday, the Paris flagship index began to doubt at midday before falling into the red to 13 hours, and recross the same time below 4000 points. A publication of the results of the U.S. bank JP Morgan, the first financial institution to release its results for the fourth [...]
Jan
3
The San Francisco bank Wells Fargo has refunded just before Christmas 25 billion dollars which had been loaned by the U.S. state to avoid bankruptcy a year earlier. Freed of that debt, it can now overcome limitations on compensation imposed by the government institutions it has helped. Duly noted. From December 31, Wells Fargo [...]
Dec
29
A year after liberalization of the Livret A, the Caisse d'Epargne, La Banque Postale and Crédit Mutuel drain still nearly 90% of the stock. Other banks, which last year may also offer the booklet to their customers, opened 9 million this year, representing nearly 27 billion euros. They have actually focused their efforts on [...]
Dec
22
China never ceases to show strong growth insolent, given the economic performance of developed countries. The government announced Monday it was a growth of 8% in 2010, the same as that expected for 2009.
The Chinese economy could do even better. The OECD estimates, as many economists that the figure could reach 10%. [...]
Dec
15
The first results of the survey of 102,000 employees of France Telecom are falling, and they are not in favor of the operator. "Felt generally very degraded", "weakening the physical and mental health of some employees'" work atmosphere tense, even violent "are some of the findings prepared by the firm specializes Technologia at the [...]
Nov
27
General Motors today launched its restructuring plan in Europe. The head of GM Europe, Nick Reilly recalls from 9000 to 9500 job cuts in its German subsidiary Opel and Vauxhall UK, a total of 50,000 employees. He met today with Minister-President of the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jürgen Rüttgers
The German factory in [...]