Archive for the ‘features’ Category
February 12, 2012
Football clubs are they like other entities? The question worth asking, when European football comes back to show a record deficit for its fiscal year 2010: more than 1.6 billion cumulative loss by 665 European clubs in first division. As for the debt, it reached nearly 15 billion euros, ...
October 25, 2011
Anne Sinclair could return to work and media. According Rue89, the former presenter of "7 on 7" would be approached to become the patron saint of the French version of the Huffington Post. The new site, launched in partnership with the World, scheduled to open around 15 November. The ...
October 22, 2011
The tax. It scares some, who left France for tax heavens warmer (Switzerland in the lead). It works the other. The French tax system is so dense that the understanding, and around, held for hours and other estate planning tax, paid to find clever editing which will reduce the ...
October 14, 2011
Another bad news for Carrefour. For the fifth time this year, despite a slight increase of 0.3% of quarterly sales as reported at 22.8 billion euros (-0.6% on a comparable basis, excluding petrol), the distributor launches warning on its results. "In an environment of increasingly uncertain, we wanted to ...
October 11, 2011
A new brand of luxury hotels in Paris to establish themselves on Valentine's Day. On 14 February, the American group Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which operates 1,070 hotels worldwide under nine brands (Sheraton, Westin, Le Meridien ...) will open a "W", the most trendy brand, launched in 1998 in ...
October 5, 2011
After having "saved the skin" of Starbucks, the title of his latest work (1), Howard Schultz, owner and founder of the coffee chain will do the same for ... U.S. employment. Called "Create jobs for United States" ("Let's create jobs in the United States"), the project, which will begin ...
September 30, 2011
Of the 600 amendments to the bill on consumption currently being debated in the National Assembly, MPs have finally decided to limit to 12 months duration of mobile phone packages. The maximum consumer engagement remains at 24 months. "I do not want a ban long packages. It is the ...
September 27, 2011
Vigil at the refinery of the American French LyondellBasell at Berre, near Marseilles. Employees are called Tuesday morning to a works great. "We believe that we will announce the closure of the refinery," alarmed Fabien Astier, CGT secretary of the works. The refinery employs 350 people but the whole ...
September 26, 2011
Wednesday that it will be considered by the Cabinet the draft budget law for 2012. A text that includes fiscal measures, fixed departmental budgets next year and, by inference, determine the government deficit - it should be around 80 billion euros in 2012. But this year, the timing of ...
September 19, 2011
In recent days, negotiations have intensified between the government and GDF Suez on the revision of gas prices on 1 October. The company has done his: it is entitled to claim a rate increase of nearly 5%. The service contract that binds the State says that the group ...