After several difficult years, the growth of the Altran Group continues to maintain double-digit for four quarters now. Specialist in High Technology Council announced in a statement an increase of 10.3% (10.1% at constant scope) of its turnover compared to 1st quarter 2010 to 387.7 million euros. Providing a dynamic demand in the coming [...]
Apr
27
The effects of the global crisis will be felt on sustainable public finances in Europe. In 2010, the year of recovery for the European economy, the countries of the euro area show that more poor results in terms of criteria set by the European treaties (see graphic), according to figures released Tuesday by Eurostat. [...]
Apr
15
This is the best performance since the first quarter of 2008. The consolidated sales of Danone rose 19.6% to 4.757 million euros in first quarter 2011 according to the statement released by the group Thursday. "Danone teams have made over several quarters a great job. Our four businesses and all our geographies are accelerating, [...]
Mar
3
The Paris Bourse, where she has faltered last night closing because of further oil price rises, is no exception to the downward trend in U.S. and Asian stock exchanges recorded since yesterday evening. At the close, the CAC 40 was down 0.81% at 4034.32 points.
Tensions in the Middle East intensified and the [...]
Jan
27
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Common sense has finally prevailed in the world of transport in the Ile-de-France. Wednesday, Minister of the City, Maurice Leroy, Jean-Paul Huchon, the Socialist president of the Ile-de-France, and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Minister of Sustainable Development, Ecology and Transportation, announced a "historic agreement" on the draft [...]
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 [...]
Jan
18
The Tokyo Stock Exchange finished Tuesday's session up slightly from 0.15%, investors still waiting game before the release of financial results for heavyweights side of Wall Street closed Monday, and the American reaction to the sick made by Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. The Nikkei ended at 10,518.98 points, and the Topix, wider, takes 0.31%, [...]
Jan
10
As of Monday evening, "What will change is that there will be more Ryanair planes on the tarmac of Marseilles," quips one to the communications department of the airport. That is to say that there will be four planes blue and yellow sleeping in the parking planned for Ryanair.
What will change, too, [...]
Dec
28
In the absence of changes in shareholders, Quick is renewed to continue to grow. The fast food chain should in fact remain for several years in the bosom of QUALIUM (formerly CDC Investment). The investment fund, advised by Rothschild, had considered a sale of assets last spring.
But the price demanded, around 900 [...]
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 [...]