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The French continue to create companies. "We should reach 500,000 this year, including 300,000 creations autoentrepreneur. This reflects a certain optimism about tough economic times, "says Alain Belais, Executive Director of the Agency for start-ups (PACE). According to INSEE, 364,891 new businesses were created between January and late August. Creation of two is a autoentreprise. In Paris, 22,053 new companies were registered.

New entrepreneurs are both men and women in their fifties forced to find new life as young people tempted by the low wage labor. According to a poll Ifop for CCI Undertake 52% of those under age 25 are eager to start their company. According to PACE, 78,000 under 30 years embarked on this adventure in 2008, including 30,000 under 25 years despite the difficulties.65% of those who do not start bank lending. More than one in two with less than 8000 euros. The change is dramatic since 2001, when France only records slightly more than 200,000 creations.

However, the figures for the first eight months of this year were down 10% over the same period last year. The balance will be down in 2011 compared to 2010 which was a historic year with 622,000 creations, thanks to the tremendous popularity of the regime of autoentrepreneur introduced on 1 January 2009. The autoentrepreneur accounted for 58% of new artists last year.

But the French are less likely to be tempted. The number of new autoentrepreneur slowed since the beginning of the year. "The slowdown is quite natural. This system has reached its cruising speed after exceptional growth.Autoentrepreneur those who remain and those who choose this diet have taken the measure of their commitments. They are here to stay, "says Alain Belais.

The French discovered the limitations of this status. It provides a second activity and to test an idea. There are limits annual sales: 81,500 euros in trade, 32,600 euros in services. Anxious to appease the artisans who denounce their unfair competition, the government imposed new obligations on autoentrepreneur.

Since 1 January 2011, they pay a certain sum for vocational training. They must report their sales even if they do not conduct business. Of the 738,351 autoentrepreneur reported, only 277,000 were active in the second quarter. They achieved a turnover of one billion.287,600 were active in the first quarter and achieved 963 million in sales. In 2010, 383,000 active autoentrepreneur reported a turnover of 3.2 billion. Is an annual average of 8310 euros per person. In 2009, 162,100 were made to have one billion in sales. Is 6294 euros per person. The success of the autoentrepreneur has not dampened the appetite of the French for the self-employed status. According to figures published by the end of September ACOSS, 621,000 people have chosen this status since 1 January 2009.

Finding the right financing

This enthusiasm for starting a business due to the numerous reforms for several years to simplify administration. Networks that accompany the new entrepreneurs to help them build a case or grow their businesses also play a key role.Chambers of commerce are very active. Initiate the network relies on the expertise of volunteer business leaders. France Active 6700 projects funded in 2010.

Their strength is to help designers to obtain bank financing they would have had a hard time get to know only because solid build file. The unemployed are not forgotten. Adie, who is the leader of microcredit in France, has launched a fund for unsecured loans for troubled youth. Lafarge, the Deposit, Laser and other finance it. But the French passion for business has its limits. Most creations are no employees. In 2010, this proportion reached 95%. And the companies that launched at least one employee had an average of three employees.It is true that running a very small business or microenterprises employing fewer than 10 employees making more than 2 million euros in turnover remains a risky venture for a simple reason: their leaders have difficulty finding bank financing .

Protect its heritage

Separate personal and professional is possible.

Artisans, merchants, professionals can take from 1 January the status of individual entrepreneur Limited (EIRL). This scheme allows the contractor to protect his family by separating his business assets known as "assets used" and their personal assets. Specifically, the entrepreneur chooses the new status does not lose his personal assets in bankruptcy. It does not take risks on the part of his property invested in the company.Despite the very favorable reception of professional organizations, starting the EIRL is slow. Only 3500 individual entrepreneurs had adopted July 31. The legal and tax developments that have been made should make it more attractive.

The supplementary budget in July 2011 provides tax neutrality. Individual entrepreneurs who choose EIRL are free to opt for taxation of corporate income tax. Those who choose this option do not pay payroll taxes on their actual earnings. For their part, banks have pledged not to limit the credit they give to people who choose EIRL status and do not require additional guarantees.

The mood is gloomy Tuesday in the Paris Bourse. The debt crisis, fears of a default Greek and the difficulties of Dexia still saddled markets. The CAC plunged 2.7% in mid-session at 2 845.78 points after having been closed on Monday, down 1.85% to 2926.83 euros. Elsewhere in Europe, London was down 2.22% to 4,962.80 points and Frankfurt from 3% to 5 215.50 points.

Monday evening, the finance ministers of the Eurogroup announced after their meeting that they see "in October," the decision on the next tranche of 8 billion euros to Greece. Europe is planning to review the private sector in the second aid plan and is considering increasing the relief fund for indebted countries (EFSF).Finance Ministers have also agreed on the granting of collateral in exchange for loans to Greece.

Athens, meanwhile, announced new measures after Sunday warned that the country would not meet its deficit targets required by its creditors.

Oil down

Fears weigh on the euro area also on the European currency. The euro sank below the $ 1.32 in late morning, its lowest level since January against the greenback, carried away in the turmoil of the debt crisis and the postponement of a decision on Greece by the finance ministers of the euro area. Mid-session, the euro bought 1.3184 dollars against 1.3178 dollars late Monday.First thing in the session, he even fell to 1.3146 dollars, its lowest value since January 13.

Oil markets, concerns about the global economy weigh on prices: a barrel of "light sweet crude" for delivery in November lost 1.47% dollar to 76.47 dollars in the morning.

In terms of macroeconomic indicators, investors will pay attention to the publication of industrial producer prices in the euro zone in August expected at least 16 hours. Overseas, industrial orders in the U.S. for August are expected in 16 hours. At the same time, the president of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, scheduled to speak before a congressional committee on "economic forecasts".

Dexia has announced the sale of its flagship

The entire banking sector will be followed on Tuesday.The board of directors of Dexia (-20.77% to 1.03 euros) announced last night to have initiated a process to solve the structural problems of the group but did not mention track in particular. The Franco-Belgian bank should speed up the sale of its jewels and isolation of its non-performing assets in a "bad bank" quick guaranteed personal loans. His last note was placed on negative watch by Moody's. Deminor insists that the shareholders are consulted before any decision on a plan for the future of Dexia, said the consulting firm to shareholders in an open letter disclosed by Reuters.

For its part, Societe Generale (-3.95% to 18.22 euros) halved its need for long-term financing in 2012, she announced.The French bank will only need 10 to 15 billion euros.

Also in the European banking sector, the first German bank Deutsche Bank has abandoned its goal Tuesday to reach a record operating profit of 10 billion euros this year, but assured that it will profit in the third quarter.

The sugar group Cristal Union will acquire in a friendly group Vermandoise for nearly a billion euros to create the number five European sugar industry, which will be number two in France behind Tereos. Vermandoise group includes two companies listed on NYSE-Euronext Paris, the Society of Sugar Vermandoise (SVS) and the Sugar Company of the Old Pithiviers (SSPLV).The listing of the two securities is suspended.

Stallergènes (-3.63% to 44.81 euros) announced a reorganization of its governance, which will see the arrival of a new executive managing director in early 2012.

GDF Suez (-1.70% to 22.02 euros) has completed the sale of the Rete Gas G6 consortium of infrastructure funds F2i, AXA Private Equity and Enel Distribution. The sale values ​​the distribution assets at an enterprise value of 772 million euros, to 103% of the regulated asset base in 2010, 9.3 times Ebitda and 17.5 times net income. This was announced in June.

Bonduelle (-1.31% to 63.50 euros) reported a sharp drop in its annual net profit by 48% to 30.4 million but expects a rebound in profitability for the year 2011-2012.The food group is also in talks to buy the vegetables Aucy in Russia.

Naturex (-6.88% to 46.02 euros), a specialist in natural ingredients of plant origin, will launch a capital increase of € 49.3 million to fund acquisitions and increase its free float stock.

Group Gorge (9.95% to 6.74 euros) flames just after the announcement of its largest order in the nuclear industry, a contract of 30 million euros in China.

Pierre Mariani, managing director (that is to say the CEO) of the Franco-Belgian bank Dexia, has the gift to tell of the horrors with apparent nonchalance. Speaking to the AJEF Thursday (Association of Economists and financial journalists), he compared the lives of bankers in the current environment in disaster film "2012". No sooner had we escaped an imminent threat that a new arises. Compared to some of his colleagues, Pierre Mariani may have relaxation of the banker who in any case had no respite or almost three years ago, when he was dispatched to Brussels to head a bank just saved from the waters by the Belgian and French, and the Deposit.

Since then, considerable work has been shot: the balance sheet was reduced by EUR 170 billion, the financing needs of a hundred billion.At a time when European banks stumble over the availability of funds in dollars, Dexia is fortunate to have transferred his assets overseas (FSA, and in July, its portfolio of financial assets). At least that problem is not his, and he is also out today – contrary to some market rumors – that the Franco-Belgian bank is not the one who used this summer and again today at the box office dollars of the European Central Bank.

Still, the situation remains extremely tense for Dexia, "we are a sovereign funder – or rather subsouverain with local authorities – a strong presence in Southern Europe. It does not facilitate the life … "Pierre Mariani notes by wielding an understatement.Rating agencies – Moody's downgraded Dexia in July – are closely monitoring the sensitivity of the banking crisis of sovereign debt and refinancing conditions, knowing that the group is still heavily dependent on short-term refinancing.

In this situation, Pierre Mariani has perhaps even more than his colleagues their eye towards politics. "The debt crisis is now deep enough to destabilize the European financial sector," he warned, calling on European leaders to bring order in the governance of the euro area and to implement the Agreement of 21 July. It is however "not certain that the solution lies in a massive recapitalization" of European banks.

In addition, the head of Dexia focuses on the consequences of running the economic growth of the pressure right now on the banks."Everything is in place to organize a massive contraction of credit," he warns. Banks now carve their balance sheets to reduce their financing needs, especially long term, gradually emerging business critical, such as project finance, aircraft financing, loans to local …

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Three months after threatening to degrade the notes of BNP Paribas, Societe Generale and Credit Agricole, put under surveillance, the U.S. rating agency, Moody's, could rise to the act shortly shortly. According to sources familiar with the matter, the decision was "imminent." "It comes at the end of three months to impose surveillance," says a source. The rating agency that had accompanied its implementation in June under the supervision of a negative outlook, clearly had in fact paved the way for a deterioration in credit ratings. One step for BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole and Societe Generale for two.On the first day of September, the losses of the three titles are respectively 17.45%, 22.33% and 27.69%.

Analysts relativize

Especially, a controversy arose in late August on the valuation of debt securities by certain Greek French banks. The IASB, the body responsible for setting international accounting standards, criticized some financial institutions are not named, have valued their claims on the Greek state in ways internal development rather than by using market prices cheap payday advance. Which would have allowed banks to spend less severe impairment in their accounts. Even if they have applied a discount of 21% on government debt they have in their accounts, the three banks still have about six billion euros of Greek sovereign debt.

Some analysts relativize however, the scope of the surveillance on June 15 the three French banks by Moody's, noting that the other two rating agencies, Standard & Poor's (S & P) and Fitch attributed to them have lower grades. Crédit Agricole SA is currently rated "Aa1" by Moody's and "Aa2" by BNP Paribas and Societe Generale. S & P assigned the notes 'AA' with a negative outlook to BNP and "A +" with stable outlook to Crédit Agricole and Societe Generale. Fitch is on his side to "AA-" with stable outlook to BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole, and "A +" with stable outlook for Societe Generale.

Among the statistics expected Monday in Wall Street, the surprise came from consumer spending. The Americans have in fact spent more than expected in July. Up 0.8% on month, consumer spending across the Atlantic more than 0.3 percentage points the level expected by analysts. Because of inflation, which rose 0.4% from June, consumer spending rose 0.5% in real terms. Their progress is the highest since December 2009.

This increase serves as a good sign for U.S. growth in the third quarter. What mood enhancing buyer investors, who already showed optimism prior to publication.At the opening of the session on Monday in New York, the Dow Jones ahead by 0.74% to 11,368 points, the Nasdaq and Standard & Poor's 500 rising 1.36% respectively in 2514 and 1 points, 40% to 1193 points.

The final impact less severe than expected from Hurricane Irene passed over New York yesterday, also contributes to investor optimism. Similarly, after being confused by the speech of Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, on Friday, market participants regain hope in a possible intervention by the Fed.

The Dow Jones above 11,000 points

According to analysts at Aurel BGC in fact, the announcement by Ben Bernanke, a two-day meeting in September to study in detail the possible deployment of new monetary tools, reassured. "Either the recovery of economic activity is growing, or the central bank will implement new support measures, they summarize.Under these conditions, the U.S. indices rebounded sharply after Bernanke's speech. "

In fact, dropped below the 11,000 points while the Fed chairman began to speak, the Dow finished at 11 284.5, up 1.2% on Friday night. A final increase, which encouraged European stock markets bounce back on Monday morning, except in London, closed due to holiday.

Another indicator which will be followed on Monday, the promises of home sales for July are expected down 0.1% from a consensus of analysts, against 2.4% rise previously.

The bank should remain in the spotlight

No major publication is expected on the business side.

However, the banking sector will probably still at the heart of analysts' expectations, due to the rebound in the sector in Europe.

The ranking of cities where life is the most expensive in the world has just been updated. Based on the study "Prices and Earnings" of 2009 conducted by the Swiss bank UBS, the ranking reveals a new top trio now consists of Oslo, Zurich and Geneva. New Delhi, Manila and Bombay are on their last on the list.

To establish this classification, UBS has written, based on European consumption patterns, a basket of 122 goods and services in 73 cities worldwide. Surprise for New York, formerly the sixth, falling heavily to the 14th because of the weak dollar. Paris, however, losing three places, is now considered to be more expensive than New York, as it appears in 12th place.

Regarding wages, Zurich tops the list of cities that pay the best.Far behind Paris and Lyon are respectively the 24th and 25th place in this ranking shows that during that wages are twice lower than in Switzerland. Central to the survey on which this list is based: the purchasing power. UBS has in fact a classification of employees taking advantage of the stronger purchasing power based on their net hourly wage. If Zurich, Sydney and Luxembourg occupy the podium, London 16th and 22nd Lyon. Gones is the capital of the French before the capital, Paris listed in 28th place for the only criteria in purchasing power.

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Buoyed by the announcement of a burst of mergers and acquisitions, Wall Street on Monday confirmed the rebound that started in last weekend. It even erases all its losses last week. All indices end in green: the Dow ends up sharply from 1.87% to 11,479.65 points. The index had opened up 0.48% to 11,323.44 points and continued to grow during the session. The Nasdaq index also closed with a gain of 1.87% to 2554.79 points.

Markets reacted to a volley of announcements of mergers and acquisitions. First, Google (-1.16% to 557.23 dollars) has announced the acquisition of the mobile phone manufacturer Motorola Mobility (55.78% to 38.12 dollars) to $ 12.5 billion in cash. Time Warner (-0.81% to 64.98 dollars), meanwhile, reached an agreement to buy the cable operator Insight Communications to Carlyle for $ 3 billion.Finally, Cargill will acquire the French specialist in animal feed Provimi to 1.5 billion euros.

As in Europe, investors are upbeat on the eve of an important meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the reform of the governance of the euro area. They should discuss ways to implement to prevent contagion problems of sovereign debt to the rest of the region.

But Germany has already warned investors: this meeting will lead to "nothing spectacular". "It will be a working meeting on the governance of the euro area in line with European decisions taken in late July," said the spokesman of the Ministry of Finance. The latter also confirmed the skepticism German, joined by France, in respect of Eurobonds.These ads have already resulted in demoralizing the European investors.

In Asia, the announcement of a contraction much weaker than expected Japanese GDP has also reassured the markets.

Morale builders stable

The statistics published on Monday in the U.S. are, however, bleak. Manufacturing activity in the New York area declined for the third consecutive month at -7.7, 3.9 points lower than in July.

In real estate, the NAHB index released on Monday shows that the morale of the manufacturers was unchanged in August, close to its lowest historical levels.

Note that the currency market, the euro strengthened against the greenback at 1.444 dollar. Oil markets, oil prices closed up in New York payday loan. A barrel of "light sweet crude" for September delivery was trading at 87.88 dollars, up 2.50 dollar.Prices had fallen during the European trading, erasing their gains made in Asian trade in a market nervous and still haunted by persistent concerns about global growth and the debt crisis in the eurozone. A barrel of Brent North Sea crude for September delivery was trading at 107.56 dollars on the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in London, down 47 cents from Friday's close.

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On the corporate side, Bank of America (7.93% to 7.76 dollars) has announced the sale of its activities in the international credit cards in Britain, Ireland or Canada.

The food distributor Sysco (-3.93% to 28.11 dollars) announced earnings per share (EPS), diluted to 57 cents under its fourth quarter, diluted EPS of $ 1.96 for all of its financial year, while its quarterly sales reached $ 10.4 billion.

Estee Lauder fell 6.64% to 94.15 dollars. Despite the publication of a net income group share record of $ 700.8 million, up 46.5%, the cosmetics group announced its annual results would be below Wall Street expectations.

Lowe (0.82% to 19.58 dollars) has already reported sales below expectations in the second quarter of its fiscal year and lowered its annual targets for the second time in three months, consumers pushing their development projects until later because of sluggish growth.

Boeing (1.54% to 62.70 dollars) announced it had completed with Air Lease Corp. an order valued at $ 2.5 billion on 14 737-800 aircraft and five 777-300ER.

Pfizer (2.69% to 18.34 dollars) announced Monday it had won before a U.S. court case against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries of Israel, preventing the global generics to produce a copy of Viagra before 2019 .

Transocean (2.97% to 57.26 dollars), listed in New York, wants to buy the Norwegian group Aker Drilling, for a total of 1.1 billion Swiss francs (1 billion), according to a statement Monday.Several large shareholders, representing 65% of the capital, have agreed to the deal, said the Swiss.

The American specialist craft materials Grainger (2.01% to 138.57 dollars) on Monday announced the acquisition of the Dutch distributor of fasteners Fabory Group for $ 344 million (242 million).

The American and European leaders were under pressure Sunday to try to agree on a concerted response to the debt crisis in the eurozone and the degradation of the note of the United States. Front line, they seek to avoid further financial market plunge Monday, worried about the slowdown in global growth and spread of the debt crisis in the eurozone. Since Friday, so they stepped up contacts.

• Maintenance of imminent G7 finance ministers. Finance ministers of the G7, which includes the U.S., Germany, Japan, France, Canada, Italy and Britain, have stepped up telephone contacts this weekend in order to develop a common strategy to offer.After heavy turbulence in global financial markets, which lost 2,500 billion during the past week, they must reassure investors about the ability and determination of their countries to reduce deficits and public debts. A telephone conference of finance ministers and central bankers to be held Monday, according to Japanese news agency Kyodo. Interviews are tentatively scheduled before the opening of Asian markets (in the night from Sunday to Monday in Europe).

• A G20 focused on the debt. More broadly, the G20, which groups the world's major economies, contacted by telephone Sunday morning to discuss the consequences of the debt crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. Nothing had filtered from the meeting at noon.Only South Korea said that its confidence in the U.S. Treasury had not changed despite the decision of Standard & Poor's. "There will be no change in the policy of foreign exchange reserves of South Korea," said Vice Minister of Finance.

• The ECB will speak Sunday. Among the tracks in the study is a possible intervention by the European Central Bank, which could buy government bonds in Italy and Spain. This intervention is strongly demanded by the markets payday loans. The European Central Bank Thursday reactivated its share repurchase program of sovereign debt in order to calm soaring interest rates in some countries of the euro area, but has so far bought only small amounts of debt and Irish Portuguese, while speculation is focused on Italy and Spain.If the decision to intervene is taken, the ECB and national central banks will begin to redeem the bond markets open Monday. A meeting of governors will be held Sunday to 18 hours.

• Nicolas Sarkozy met with David Cameron on Saturday. The President, who chairs the G7 and G20 met Saturday evening on the phone for thirty minutes of the financial situation with British Prime Minister. The two men "agreed on the importance of working together to monitor the situation closely and keep in touch in the coming days," said a London spokesman for Downing Street, without giving further details. The discussion between the two leaders has focused on his view "the euro area and the lowering of the rating American."

• Barack Obama called on Europeans Friday night.According to the White House, Bush spoke by phone separately with President Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel about "the latest developments of the crisis in the euro zone" and noted "the importance of [the] implementation "of measures adopted at the summit of the euro area on July 21. The leaders of the eurozone had concerted Friday after finding that the agreement found to cope with the debt crisis had not convinced the markets. If Italy and Spain are at the heart of the turmoil, other countries are also affected such as Belgium.

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"After a rigorous regime of five open time of the attack by external growth," warned in March industrialist Vincent Bolloré, chairman and largest shareholder of Havas, on the occasion of the annual results of French communications group. First founding of the strategy of conquest, Havas announced Wednesday a majority stake in Host, "the largest independent creative agency in Australia," said David Jones, appointed four months ago, Havas CEO after chairing the network Havas Worldwide (Euro RSCG and Arnold).The group is already present in Australia through the agency Euro RSCG, Red Agency, Arnold Furnace and Media Contacts.

Founded in 2000 by Anthony Freedman, integrated advertising agency Host has 120 staff and advises clients such as Vodafone, Levi's, Coca-Cola Company and Australian companies BankWest, BT Financial Group and Sydney Water. Havas did not provide the amount of the transaction. David Jones said, however, that Host is "growing with double digit growth in its income for five years." Gross margin for the agency, which will retain its name and its current leaders, is estimated at about $ 30 million. "This acquisition is strategic for Havas, is its CEO. This is the largest independent agency in Australia, a brilliant creative agency several times crowned by lions at Cannes.It is also entirely consistent with our model by placing digital at the heart of everything we do. Over 30% of revenues come from digital Host. Finally, with Host and after the acquisition in late 2010 Porda corporate agency in Hong Kong, we increase further the percentage of our revenue in Asia Pacific. "

750 million cash

This external growth "measured but determined," to borrow the words of Vincent Bolloré, must lead the sixth largest global communications to reach 2.5 billion euros in sales within three years. In 2010, revenue was $ 1.558 billion."We now have a healthy balance sheet with cash of 750 million euros, one billion dollars available for acquisitions while in 2005 Havas posted debts of 750 million euros," says its new CEO.

To refine its strategy, David Jones was held in mid-June sixty major Havas executives in Barcelona. The group aims to strengthen in Asia and Latin America as well as in the digital businesses, with "priority given to social networks and geolocation, which represents the opportunity to major transformation of our industry." In 2010, digital accounted for nearly 20% of its revenues. But unlike its big French rival Publicis, which absorbed Digitas, Razorfish and Rosetta, Havas does not increase the scope of redemptions in the industry."We prefer to focus on budgets and talent at the heart of our agencies, rather than isolating them in silos experts, sometimes paid dearly, insists David Jones. That's what we did in recruiting team or Modernista digital with the acquisition of Socialistic. "Havas should also accelerate the deployment of its" microarray ", Arnold and BETC. The first, born in Boston, is a twenty offices around the world. The second, BETC, created in Paris by Mercedes Erra and Remi Babinet, will remain housed in the Euro RSCG network. After an initial introduction to London, BETC could export its "model of start-up" in the United States, Latin America or Asia.

Saturn must be profitable in three years: it is the objective that its new owner, HTM Group, has set. The holding of the family group Mulliez (Paragraph, Kiabi, etc.). Boulanger strengthens its brand with 35 stores in French Media Saturn, a subsidiary of the German Metro, which she bought on June 30 for an undisclosed price.

"Saturn knew generate traffic in its stores with low prices and promotions, but never developed Internet business and has never managed to be profitable," especially in front of supermarkets are on the same niche (26 % market share), explains Layous Bernard, director of purchasing and marketing Boulanger.

"With Saturn, Boulanger changes category. Faced with global suppliers, we will have greater purchasing power and we will be known to the public, "he says.The distributor of multimedia products and services and appliances improves its national coverage with this acquisition, which "saves 3 to 4 years of expansion." Even if Baker is, first, giving up open the store on the outskirts of Saturn provided Avignon and on the other hand, give five other outlets of the brand (Toulon, Le Havre, Mulhouse, Aubergenville , Angers), and a shop in Tours Boulanger to respect the opinion of the Competition Authority on the merger.

No project abroad

The integration of the stores kept Saturn, which carry a turnover of 500 million euros, will allow Boulanger (97 stores) to reach the 2 billion mark in sales in a French market the electrical appliance 22 billion euros, according to Gfk.

"The market has been growing steadily for twenty years, with the exception of 2009," says Francis cord, CEO of HTM Group. Since the beginning of the year, but the activity is again down, 1.2%, except for sales professionals on the Internet, such as Darty and Fnac. These are already doing about 10% of their sales through this channel, twice as Boulanger, who made his priority. Points boulanger.com withdrawals and will appear in the old Saturn, because a client of two picks the order.More reason to want to see HTM Group "soon" its goal of 150 stores Boulanger on the rise, with major cities and especially Paris-line of sight. International expansion, produced by its competitors, remains a dream, "but before going abroad, one must be strong in our home market," said Francis cord. Confident, it provides a higher turnover of Boulanger 3% over the year, at constant perimeter.

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