Tag: French-economy
The Habitat furniture brand risks liquidation
Habitat’s cash flow collapsed the day after the brand was placed in receivership on November 30. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP The fate of Habitat and its 550 employees will be…
The S&P rating agency does not downgrade France’s rating
The rating agency S&P Global Ratings maintained France’s credit rating at AA on Friday, December 1, which remains “with a negative outlook” due to a “uncertainty” as to “public finances…
Medef, CFDT and CFTC agree on new compensation rules
Employers and at least two unions finally reached an agreement on unemployment insurance on the evening of Friday, November 10, following difficult negotiations on compensation rules from January 2024. “After…
Frédéric Merlin, the resuscitator of shopping centers in distress, takes over the BHV
Frédéric Merlin, in the SGM offices, located at the Cité Internationale in Lyon, April 4, 2022. SUSIE WAROUDE The BHV, “it is still the largest bedding retailer in Paris. Surprising,…
Guillaume Meurice receives a warning that he will challenge in court
Comedian Guillaume Meurice, in Rennes, March 5, 2023. LOIC VENANCE / AFP “Freedom is not without its counterparts: it is necessarily accompanied by responsibility, the choice of limits and the…
Fitch’s maintenance of the French rating offers respite to the government
Elisabeth Borne, in the hemicycle of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, surrounded by several ministers, in Paris, October 16, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD” Good news, but for…