French government says Nestle wants to keep Perrier
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Nestle Waters France, a subsidiary of Swiss food giant Nestle, later confirmed in a statement that it was prepared to renew contacts with union leaders on holding on to Perrier provided they dropped their ...
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Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drink company, Tuesday said it plans to make Chief Executive Peter Brabeck its chairman as well.
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Â· French president headed for showdown in Brussels  Â· He will demand greater political control over euro
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The staff of France's iconic left-wing daily Liberation, crippled by falling circulation and mounting debt, issued a public appeal to the main investor to ensure the title survives.
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Nestl claims that it can no longer make money out of Perrier because of the over-manning and rigidity of the labour laws at the company's plant in Vergez in the south of France.
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Nestle confirmed its 2004 guidance on Tuesday, defying profit warnings from rivals Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive which had cast doubt over the consumers goods industry&#39;s outlook.
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The French fizzy water in the green bottle is in trouble. Perrier, a source of domestic pride and one of the world's best-known brands, is caught in a labor dispute that smacks of a culture clash between old-world France against the New World Order.
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French President Jacques Chirac said that a controversial government-backed merger of Gaz de France and French utility group Suez was needed to create a French champion in the gas sector.
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Pernod Ricard SA is examining a tie-up with rival drinks maker Allied Domecq PLC as one of several possible acquisitions, a person close to the company said yesterday.
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Claude Gueant, the chief of staff of  French President Nicolas Sarkozy, reiterated on Sunday that  France preferred any bid for domestic bank Societe Generale   to be a French one rather than a foreign one.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has  called left-wing Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to back his  offer to try to help secure the release of hostages held by  rebels in Colombia, including a French-Colombian politician.
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The French government asked two banks, France&#39;s Societe Generale SA and the Netherlands&#39; ABN Amro Holding NV, to handle the sale of the Air France-KLM stake involving some 48 million shares, according to a Finance Ministry spokesperson.
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France's prime minister says his government will defend Societe Generale against any hostile takeover bids.
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French doctors appealed on Monday to President Jacques Chirac to intervene and stop changes in wine advertising rules the physicians fear will lead to more deaths from alcohol-related illnesses and drunk ...
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France's finance minister intervened Friday in the standoff between Nestle SA and its French workers, inviting a top executive to discuss the Swiss food giant's plans to sell its Perrier bottled water unit.
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The French government pressured the country's second-largest trade union to resume talks with Swiss giant Nestle SA, backing a voluntary layoff plan that could avert a Perrier sell-off.
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The supervisory board of Societe Generale has voted unanimously to keep Chairman and Chief executive Daniel Bouton at the head of the French bank, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.