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LE FIGARO – What do you expect your visit to France?
Michalis CHRYSSOHOÏDIS – France is a strategic partner, the second largest foreign investor after Germany. I will meet with the bank Oséo. The SME Bank is to me a model success story. It has supported companies in recent years and has funded [...]

France Loisirs, a leading book distributors in France, sold to Bertelsmann in the spring by a U.S. investment fund, diversifying its activities. Reportedly, the group plans to launch its own brand of mobile phone: Mobile France Loisirs. For this, it should ally with small low-cost operator Zero package, which will assume all the technical [...]

The salvation of the euro area could come from China. Forced to borrow at prohibitive rates Monday morning, Rome had in fact asked Beijing to make significant repurchases of its sovereign debt, reports the Financial Times. A member of the Italian government confirmed on Monday the existence of discussions with the Middle Kingdom on [...]

In the wake of the Asian stock markets, down sharply this morning despite a slight improvement at the end, the financial center of Paris does not know how to behave on Tuesday … In response to fears about economic recovery and the financial situation of the industrialized countries, the Paris index plays a roller [...]

If dairy products are our friends for life, the industrial sector are not always soft. Ken Powell, CEO of General Mills, which came a week ago in exclusive talks to buy 51% of Yoplait, can thank Emmanuel Besnier, head of Lactalis. Nestle could indeed have become co-shareholder of Yoplait, associated with Lactalis, its partner [...]

The crazy gamble Jean-Philippe Pare? Finding ways of Philadelphia cream cheese Nutella cream cheese. After eighteen months of preparation, the president of the French subsidiary of Kraft Foods will launch next month with great fanfare Philadelphia, one of the blockbusters of the group, one of eleven brands "billionaires" (1.4 billion EUR 2 billion worth [...]

The big French companies have practically recovered their health dazzling pre-crisis! The combined profits of the forty groups of ACC and reached 82.15 billion euros (1), up 83.5% over 2009! "These results are good, although still lower than 15% for those records in 2007," said Pierre Sabatier, in PrimeView. Sales of these major groups [...]

Wall Street failed to hold throughout the session these good provisions found in the opening. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 168.32 points to 12,058.02 points and the Nasdaq composite, dominated by technological 44.86 points to 2737.41 points. The broader index Standard & Poor's 500 has sold 1.57% (20.89 points) to [...]

Saudi Arabia mobilizes to dispel fears of a new oil shock. While the violence in Libya yesterday and worries of a supply shortage of oil that flow from it have dramatically raised the price of gold to almost black of 119.8 dollars per barrel of Brent, Riyadh intervenes. The country had committed "active discussions", [...]

Arrived at 8:30 with the Minister of Agriculture Bruno Le Maire, Nicolas Sarkozy visited for more than two hours the main hall of the exhibition of Agriculture where he was approached by farmers worried and listened to their grievances.
"It is imperative to review the producer price, or we will die," he said [...]