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Alain Weill
Alain Weill (born 6 April 1961) is a French business executive. He is the founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of NextRadioTV (which includes BFM TV and Radio Monte Carlo) and Chairman and CEO of SFR Group. Early life Alain Weill was born on 6 April 1961 in Strasbourg, France. He received a degree in economics and an MBA from HEC Paris. Career In 1985, Weill started his career at NRJ, and later became CEO of Quarare, a subsidiary of Sodexo. In 1990, he served as executive assistant to the CEO of Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion (CLT), and later chairman and chief executive officer. He became CEO of the NRJ Group in 1992, and of NRJ Régies in 1995. In 1997, he became deputy chairman of the management board. He founded Nextradio in 2000 and took over RMC radio. He oversaw the acquisition of BFM (now BFM Business) in 2002, and the launch of news channel BFM TV in 2005. In 2010, he sold 80% of to Valérie Decamp for €1 and he still ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strasbourg
Strasbourg ( , ; ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est Regions of France, region of Geography of France, eastern France, in the historic region of Alsace. It is the prefecture of the Bas-Rhin Departments of France, department and the Seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, official seat of the European Parliament. The city has about three hundred thousand inhabitants, and together Eurométropole de Strasbourg, Greater Strasbourg and the arrondissement of Strasbourg have over five hundred thousand. Strasbourg's functional area (France), metropolitan area had a population of 860,744 in 2020, making it the eighth-largest metro area in France and home to 14% of the Grand Est region's inhabitants. The transnational Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict, Strasbourg-Ortenau had a population of roughly 1,000,000 in 2022. Strasbourg is one of the ''de facto'' four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Tribune
() is a French weekly financial newspaper founded in 1985 by Bruno Bertez. Its main competitor is the French newspaper '' Les Échos'', which is currently owned by LVMH. From 1993 to 2007, was part of LVMH. In 2010, Alain Weill, the chairman and CEO of NextRadioTV, sold 80% of to Valérie Decamp for €1 and he still owns 20%. In 2000, it had a circulation of 531,000 copies. In 2008, it switched from tabloid to berliner format. It was rescued from bankruptcy in 2011. In 2012, the newspaper switched to a weekly. In 2016, it launched its Africa focused website and monthly publication called La Tribune Afrique. In 2023, La Tribune launched La Tribune Dimanche, a Sunday newspaper during the decline of newspaper sales in France. State aid In 2003 and 2010, the newspaper received state subsidies in a sum of 2.53 million euros. Former journalists * Tariq Krim * Jean Boissonnat * Éric Fottorino * Guy-André Kieffer *Érik Izraelewicz * Pascal Riché See also * French n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HEC Paris Alumni
HEC or Hec may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Hautes Études Commerciales (other), French-language business schools * Higher Education Commission (other) * Hongkong Electric Company * Hotel Ezra Cornell, a student-run hospitality leadership conference * Hydro Tasmania (formerly ''Hydro-Electric Commission'') * Hyundai Engineering (HEC), a Korean firm founded in 1974 Science, technology and mathematics Computing and communications * Hollerith Electronic Computer, Britain's first mass-produced business computer * Header Error Control, a method used in some telecommunication protocols * HDMI Ethernet Channel, an audiovisual technology Medicine * HEC syndrome, a condition * Human equivalent concentration * Hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp, a test of insulin resistance Other uses in science and mathematics * Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, in astronomy * Hyperelliptic curve, in algebraic geometry * Hydroxyethyl cellulose, a thickening agent * HEC-meeting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iliad (company)
Iliad SA, stylized as iliad, is a French telecommunications company. It is based in Paris and its operations comprise fixed and mobile telephony services, prepaid phone cards and Internet access providing and hosting services. The company was founded by Xavier Niel in 1990. Iliad is the 5th largest European telecommunications group with 50 million subscribers through its subsidiaries in France, Italy, and Poland. History Free Mobile, a subsidiary of Iliad, was launched in 2012. As of December 2013, it was France's fourth largest mobile operator, having gained a 12% share of the market. On August 1, 2014, Iliad publicly announced a bid to acquire a 56% stake in the United States wireless carrier T-Mobile for US$16 billion. The bid came amidst reports that competing carrier Sprint Corporation, owned by Japanese firm Softbank, was planning its own US$24 billion merger. The bid was dropped in October 2014. As of the end of 2012, the company was active in over 35 countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altice (company)
Altice Group Lux Sàrl (formerly Altice Europe N.V. and commonly known as Altice) is a Luxembourg-based multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications and mass media company with official headquarters in Luxembourg, founded and headed by the French-Israeli billionaire businessman Patrick Drahi, and the second largest telecoms company in France, behind Orange S.A., Orange. It had a market capitalization of €13.7 billion in December 2017, and a market cap of less than €6 billion in June 2019, a 56% decline for the stock since Drahi financed the business with debt. In 2016, the company had over 50 million internet, TV, and phone customers in Western Europe, Israel, the United States (where it formerly operated) and the Caribbean. Altice formerly owned a subsidiary in the USA until Altice USA, that company, while retaining the Altice name, was spun off through an IPO in June 2019, making the former USA division independent from the rest of Altice but retaining the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20 Minutes (France)
''20 minutes'' ( ''vingt minutes'') is a free, daily newspaper aimed at commuters in France. It is published by Rossel and . ''20 minutos'', the Spanish version, is distributed by Schibsted and Zeta in Spain. In Switzerland, the French-language edition ''20 minutes'' and the German-language edition ''20 Minuten'' are published by Tamedia. Rossel noted that the news outlet had 22.4 million monthly users while ratings firm Médiamétrie reported in 2017 that it received 16 million unique users per month. In Greater Paris, Ipsos and CESP confirmed a circulation of 805,000 with a readership of 2,339,000. ''20 minutes'' claims that its readers are "young urban citizens (15–40 years old) that to a lesser extent consume traditional newspapers." The French ''20 minutes'' was launched in Paris on 15 March 2002, and spread to 11 other urban areas of France, including, in order of size, the cities of Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Lil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', and the eponym, eponymous ''The Marriage of Figaro (play), Le Mariage de Figaro''. One of his lines became the paper's motto: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise". The oldest national newspaper in France, is considered a French newspaper of record, along with and ''Libération''. Since 2004, the newspaper has been owned by Dassault Group. Its editorial director has been Alexis Brézet since 2012. ''Le Figaro'' is the second-largest national newspaper in France, after ''Le Monde''. It has a Centre-right politics, centre-right editorial stance and is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Other Groupe Figaro publications include ''Le Figaro Magazine'', ''TV Magazine'' and ''Eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BFM Business
BFM Business (called BFM for ''Business FM'' until April 2009 and BFM Radio until November 2010) is France's first business news channel. It is also the most-listened to business news radio station in this country. From November 2010, BFM Business is a national economic television station offering regional variation in Ile-de-France. That regional variation was shut down in November 2016 and replaced by a local news channel, BFM Paris. Founded in 1991 (radio), it has been part of RMC BFM group since 2024. Organization Management The chief executive officer is Guillaume Dubois and the assistant CEO is Nicolas Lespaule. Capital BFM Business is held by the French group RMC BFM which also owns the national news channel BFM TV and RMC radio station. Broadcasting From November 2010 to November 2016, the television station was broadcast in 16:9 format on TNT in the Paris region (channel 24). It is still available by satellite in Western Europe and North Africa via Eutels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
