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Exxon plays hardball against climate NGOs. Will investors care?
Exxon plays hardball against climate NGOs. Will investors care?
Economy
by  AFP

ExxonMobil investors will have a chance to weigh in at Wednesday's annual meeting on the company's hardball approach to the latest shareholder challenge from environmentalists over climate change. ExxonMobil argued that the proposal was the same as one rejected by nearly 90 percent of company shareholders at the 2023 meeting.

French delicatessen Fauchon bought by Breton biscuit firm
French delicatessen Fauchon bought by Breton biscuit firm
Economy
by  AFP

French gourmet food and delicatessen company Fauchon said Tuesday it has been bought out by Galapagos, a Brittany-based biscuit maker. "Eucelia Investments SA, investment company of the Ducros family, has chosen to sell the company to the Tacquard family at the head of the Breton group Galapagos," according to a statement that did not give a value for the deal.