Into exclusive negotiations with Aegis since early June, Ipsos has finalized the purchase on Wednesday with the British group's subsidiary Synovate market research. The French company surveys and market research will pay 525 million pounds (595 million) to become the world number three studies, behind the U.S. and the UK Nielsen Kantar (WPP) but [...]
Jul
25
(Special Envoy to Berlin) The pavement of the road shines in front of decrepit facades. Raining cats and dogs in this small village in the former East Germany. Are expected to disembark Walter Ulbricht or Erich Honecker inaugurating a model farm and a gymnasium. But it is West who won. The sequence nostalgia runs [...]
Jul
13
Asian stock markets found the way to the rise on Wednesday. These days were marked by a sharp decline in seats in the region due to fear of contagion of sovereign debt problems in several countries in the euro area. Yesterday, European and U.S. stock markets have limited their losses after the announcement by [...]
May
26
Christine Lagarde supports rained since the announcement of his candidacy for the general direction of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Not surprisingly, governments that had made her the ideal candidate have confirmed their support Wednesday.
Germany supports and "strongly" the French Minister of Economy and Finance."Madame Lagarde is a person with great skill, [...]
Mar
24
Under the triple pressure of the market, the Brussels and its parliament, the Portuguese government saw its final hours. Minority, the Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates has failed to pass in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, a fourth level of rigor in one year. The disparate opposition, including the establishment of Communists and Social Democrats [...]
Feb
12
Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop, had prepared the minds for a shock. He did not lie. Friday morning, the world's number one mobile has announced a series of drastic measures to regain its luster. The most notable is a "comprehensive strategic partnership" with Microsoft.
Under the terms of the agreement, the system "Windows Phone" [...]
Jan
24
Forgotten dramas. Last April, the father of Clement, a farmer near Bergerac in the Dordogne hanged himself in his garage because he could no longer cope with financial problems. "I'm sorry for what I do but I can not anymore. Take care of the land and animals. Continuing what I did. Goodbye, "he wrote [...]
Dec
24
The meeting this Friday has not escaped the Christmas tradition. At the ndemain a day of decline, the CAC 40 ended on a down: -0.28% to 3900.39 points. The threshold of 3900 points, which had been lost during the session, caught up just in time. As expected, the volume of trade was particularly low [...]
Dec
13
Employment center, the Musée du Louvre, Météo France, or the National Forests are part of the 497 state institutions that will have to tighten their belts in 2011. Baroin, budget minister, announced Sunday in an interview with Journal du Dimanche: they must "apply the same management rules as the state for the first time." [...]
Nov
22
A dramatic decline. While more than half the 11 million employees were covered in 2008 by an industry-whose pay scale starting below the minimum wage, they are more than 12% this year, following a decline already significant at 23% 2009, reveals a study by the Department of Labor provided to social partners, and published [...]