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Free Mobile Will it or not benefit from wholesale rates (called call termination) preferential? ARCEP, the telecoms regulator, has made a proposal along these lines for voice calls, and is currently thinking about for SMS. These tariffs, paid by one operator to another to reach a call on its network, are an important component in the economic equation telecom.

But Friday night, the European Commission got involved addressing "serious reservations" to the proposal of the ARCEP. "Imposing tariffs on mobile termination rates over the networks of new entrants only makes sense if the costs are actually more important," said Commission. Clearly, the French regulator has not sufficiently justified its proposal. ARCEP has immediately responded, saying it would reflect the opinion of the Commission, but considers that its decision is not challenged on the merits.

Finally, what impact will Mobile for Free? If Arcep reviews its copy, it could result in less favorable prices for Mobile Free. However, the economic impact should have been limited because these rates apply in any case for a short period and the proposed differential rates with competitors is weaker than expected.

"For Free, the new would be unpleasant, but of limited importance, because in any case, European regulations do not allow an asymmetry that over a maximum period of four years," say analysts at Natixis. "We believe that this could make the start-up losses expected in the early years of Free Mobile a little more important. At first assessment, it could have an impact of around 25 million euros on our valuation of the mobile business, or 0.4% of the current valuation of the group, "they continue.

Technical difficulties seem resolved Free

Oddo: same observation, the impact seems too limited. "According to our preliminary calculations, the impact should be limited to 0.5 euro per share or 1.1 euros in the scenario of an abandonment of the asymmetry which seems unlikely," analysts say.

But behind the subject of voice call termination, covering tens of millions of euros for Free Mobile, looms on the SMS termination, whose stake is about ten times larger, Arcep on which to make a decision this summer.

While Free Mobile asked a very strong differential on SMS interconnection rates, its competitors are totally opposed. "There is no question of accepting the call termination on asymmetric voice calls and SMS, it would amount to subsidize the Iliad offers up to 7 euros', stated the CEO of SFR in late January . While ARCEP must decide, the Commission has wanted to send a signal?

The debate on tariffs between operators comes as Free Mobile seems to have solved the technical difficulties encountered during peak hours. "Capacity problems are solved," said Maxime Lombardini, chief executive of Iliad-Free on lemonde.fr, adding that the group had "added last week, and again in early this week, links to physical spend more simultaneous calls. "

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Everyone needs health insurance today. This is because of the ever rising costs of hospital bills and medicines. Not all insurance policies can be applied to our needs.

The opening of the contract

Contrary to popular belief, it is quite possible to take out a life insurance contract on behalf of a minor child. Indeed, the prohibition of insurance death benefit over the head of a child under 12 does not apply to life insurance, accidental death which is merely incidental.

However, a certain formality must be observed. Indeed, if the child is under 12, signature of both parents is required for opening and administering the contract. If one parent is not able to exercise parental authority (because he was deposed or died), the guardianship judge must confirm this subscription.

The contract must have a fixed term, not for life. In practice, we may retain such a period of 8 or 10 years. The contract will anyway renewable annually thereafter.

Namely: by age 12, the child must give consent by signing the contract.

The beneficiary clause

Until age 16 the insured minor, the beneficiary clause can only be "my legal heirs." However, from the age of 16, the minor can write the beneficiary clause of his choice, within 50% of the contract value. Insurers in this follow the requirements of the Civil Code.

Life insurance has in this respect a great advantage. Indeed, it prevents the insured to dispose of its funds from 18 years of age, if his parents consider it necessary or desirable. Simply that the beneficiaries of the contract (ie the child's parents) accept the benefit. In this way, even his majority, the child can not withdraw funds without the consent of his parents.

Our advice is to avoid abuse, it is best to set an age limit (eg 25 years) and write this clause with the help of a notary no fax payday loans.

The power of the contract

Long-term investment, the contract of life insurance is ideal for building up capital to fund future education or entry into working life of the child. Accumulated savings being in his name, he will not be necessary to make him a gift: it avoids the payment of fees, at least until the contract is powered by small amounts.

Namely: Pour a donation of a life insurance contract does not relieve the duty of declaring whether it exceeds the framework of a simple donation of use.

Small streams by large rivers, it is advisable to establish a regular savings on the contract. The greater flexibility is allowed: it is possible to suspend, resume, increase or decrease payments freely.

On what media invest the savings?

Some caution is in order if of course the capital comes from an inheritance or gift. The European funds in this case is ideal.

However, if a regular saving is in place, it may be wise to invest some of the equity markets. This is especially true if the child is small: with an investment horizon exceeding sometimes 10 or 15 years, the potential market declines may be offset by gains. In addition, management options that offer the best life insurance now allow secure savings as needed.

Our advice: choose a flexible and scalable contract, so your child can keep when they become adults and take advantage of its prior fiscal.

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It is ultimately the advertising that comes out of TF1 winner of the tender conducted by Al-Jazeera Sport for its channels and Bein Bein Sport 1 Sport 2 which should emerge in the coming weeks.

The Qatari group launched its bid in March and France Televisions, Lagardère, TF1 and the Amaury group competed for the contract.

Advertising TF1 finally won just days after the distribution of matches of Euro Foot 2012 and 2016 between Al-Jazeera Sport for all games and TF1 and M6 in 19 games for free TV.

The links between the first private channel free and Qatari sports channel, inbound to the new pay-TV market, is growing.

In his bid Al Jazeera demanded a minimum guarantee, which will prove invaluable in the early months of the launch of Bein Sport 1 and 2, which have not yet many paying subscribers. 

Al-Jazeera Sport had stated aim at the target of men 25 to 49 years, a target perfectly complementary to that of the TF1 channel aimed rather housewives under 50 years. The contract is also based on a consultant's study to estimate that in France Greenwich 3 million people would be willing to take a subscription to a sports channel profile corresponding to those of the Qatari group business cards.

"Your heart beats to the rhythm of sport"

To specify the color, the paper book as the signature strings: "Your heart beats to the rhythm of the sport." Moreover, the tender would encourage candidates to consider two perimeters market. One very large if the offer of Al-Jazeera Sport is broadcast on all platforms, including CanalSat. The other narrower, if the strings are set only by ADSL operators: Bouygues Telecom, SFR, Orange Free. However, no details were given in terms of audience expected. Finally, the Qatari group wants its advertising strategy is cross-platform and affects both its channels, its website that its mobile applications.

According to one expert, advertising revenue channels Al-Jazeera should be included and remain marginal "to the maximum between 3 and 5 million euros." What suggest, according to some relatives, the management contract could be a prelude to broader alliances.

 

Nostalgic for 7 on 7, the emission of TF1 mythical 1980s and 1990s, will closely follow the two election night of 22 April and 6 May 2012 BFMTV. They gather Anne Sinclair, current director of the Huffington Post website France, and Ruth Elkrief, the editor of the news channel. Anne Sinclair was presented 7 on 7 September 1987 to June 1997. After retiring from the small screen, the show, renamed Public, was presented by Ruth Elkrief from 1998 to 2000.

This is Anne Sinclair herself who suggested to Alain Weill, CEO of NextRadioTV, the parent of BFMTV, to attend both evenings, confirms the latter. "Many of these talents will come together on two evenings BFMTV," he adds.

18 am to midnight, special editions of April 22 (first round of the presidential election) and May 6 (second round) will be led by Alain Marshall, host of "20 hours" on the news channel. It is surrounded by two great figures of the chain Olivier Mazerolle and Ruth Elkrief, faithful since the launch of BFMTV on TNT in 2005.

Anne Sinclair will discuss some of the columnists on the board including Alain Madelin, Luc Ferry, Dély Renaud, Eric Brunet, Jacques Seguela, Jean-Francois Kahn, Caroline and Christopher Fourest Jakubyszyn, the managing editor of the RMC radio, other NextRadioTV subsidiary.

Organizing publicity stunts

The partnership between the Huffington Post and BFMTV France is practically limited to the presence of Anne Sinclair. The site will broadcast the images of BFMTV well, but not participate in the device's web news channel.

Despite a plateau prestigious BFMTV no exception to the calling with "a priority to live in the campaign headquarters of various political parties and a priority to images," said Alain Weill.

The arrival of Anne Sinclair on the set of BMFTV is one of the "success stories" in which the chain is familiar. For his first presidential campaign in 2007 BFMTV, whose hearings were still confidential, was observed by organizing the debate between Ségolène Royal and François Bayrou between the two towers.

In seven years, the small chain of information has emerged in the French media landscape. Created from scratch in 2005, today it is the first in France with an audience share of 1.6% in February, according Médiamétrie. An audience twice that of its rival on DTT, i-TV, a subsidiary of Canal +, however, created in 1999.

The third news channel, LCI, TF1 subsidiary, has no occasion to interfere in the match as it is broadcast on DTT, cable and satellite.

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The company's ready-to-wear founded in 1973, purchased by Edmond Cohen in 1990, and renamed to Fursac, is hosting a new shareholder. The Building Fund and Business Development (EDCF), funded by the ISPs, major banks and insurers French, takes 28% stake by bringing Fursac of 11 million euros. Five million are on loan from LCL and OSEO.

Objective: To help the company with 100 employees, attached to a European clothing and fabrics 100% Italian, find a new impetus. The company, which has nine stores in France, wants to open 25 within five years, in Hexagon, but also in Brussels, Luxembourg, Geneva and London. She hopes to double its turnover, which reached 23 million euros last year, up 20% compared to 2010.

Of Fursac, which had its heyday in the 1980s comeback. In 2006, the company was placed under administration, having invested heavily to rejuvenate its image and move upmarket. She then lost in the Galeries Lafayette locations of province, and its sales had fallen below 15 million euros. A dark period forgotten.

"This long-term strategy has been slow to develop, but has proven successful," said Benoit Sellam, the EDCF. Worn by Harry Roselmack, Tony Parker, Thierry Henry and Gad Elmaleh, costumes Fursac, sold 600 euros on average, younger. They represent 60% of sales, accessories and casual wear have grown. Above all, the company returned to profitability and has virtually no debt.

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Experts have not yet returned their verdict about the seriousness of the situation on the gas platform of Total in the North Sea. But analysts have already whipped out their calculators and trying to measure the cost of the incident for Total and stakeholders. The range of estimates is very wide: it extends to the French oil group, 150 million dollars (113 million) to $ 10 billion (7.5 billion euros) in case of explosion of the platform.

In all cases, it appears that the bill implied $ 16 billion (12 billion euros), deduced from the fall of Total shares on the stock market, is largely overestimated, says Societe Generale. "A loss of over $ 7 billion (5.3 billion euros) for Total (which holds 46.2% of the platform) seems particularly severe," wrote analyst Societe Generale. The impact on production will remain relatively moderate and the final cost in a worst case scenario hardly exceed the amount implied by the Exchange.

150 to 200,000,000 dollars

To try to guess what the final bill of the incident, calculate how much is the cessation of production from the platform evacuated Sunday at midday. According to CM-CIC Securities, the daily loss would rise between 10 and 15 million. "For Total, one can estimate a minimum cost of 150 to 200 million dollars in the best case (limited to two weeks off) or even more if the situation were to persist for several months' advance CM-CIC Securities. The shutdown could last from six months to a year, according to various analysts. An official of Total recognized that blockage could last up to six months.

$ 10 billion in case of explosion

The bill also depends on the solution proposed to solve the crisis. Exane BNP Paribas, estimated that operators of the platform may have to dig two relief wells, each costing about $ 44 million (33 million) direct payday lenders. Remains a possible explosion on the platform would jump costs for operators. The bill could reach 7.5 billion according to analysts at BofA Merrill Lynch. This amount includes the loss of deposits and the platform (about 2.8 billion euros) and nearly $ 1.5 billion to clean up environmental damage, but excludes any fines.

Analysts agree on one point: this incident, which involves gas and not oil, will not scale environmental or financial cost of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. The operator of the platform involved in this disaster, the oil BP, had to set aside $ 37.2 billion (24 billion euros).

Between 100 and 200 million pounds less for Crown

Stopping exploitation of the Elgin platform in the North Sea could also have an impact on … tax revenues of His Majestys. "If the site remains closed door for six months, this could result in a revenue loss of between 100 and 200 million pounds (119 and 238.4 million euros)," David has calculated Tinsley, an economist at BNP Paribas . This amount, compared to 43 billion pounds collected by the British state in 2011, does not include any costs of cleanup. The invoice is not limited to the tax shortfall. British production, already amorphous, could also be slowed, says the analyst, who concluded that the country's growth could even be reduced by 0.05% in the second quarter.

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The CEO of Veolia Environnement Antoine Frérot, threatened three weeks ago by a coup attempt, Friday conducted a redesign of the Group Executive Committee to accelerate the implementation of its strategic plan.

"Denis Gasquet (Director of Operations, ed), Olivier Orsini (Executive Vice President and General Secretary, ed) and Jean-Pierre Frémont (executive vice president of public authorities and business, ie) left the band," said a statement Veolia, which had already revamped its board of directors Thursday.

Thursday, Antoine Frérot had already reached not to renew the appointments of two directors, the businesswoman Esther Koplowitz Spain and the former head of Sanofi Jean-Francois Dehecq, considered close to former CEO and current CEO of Veolia EDF Proglio. At the Paris Bourse, the Veolia Environnement has accelerated its rise, taking 4.53% to 12.69 euros in a market up 0.26% shy to 3:12 p.m..

Public outcry over Proglio

Disagree with the strategy of his successor to reduce the size of the group, including pulling of the activity of public transport, for deleverage, Proglio, director of Veolia always, wanted, according to press reports, Mr. Frérot to land and Borloo put in its place. But the outcry over this scenario had aborted the project.

The Executive Committee of Veolia from nine to seven members. Six were already (Jérôme Gallot, Jean-Michel Herrewyn, Franck Lacroix, Jean-Marie Lambert, Jerome Le Conte, Pierre-Francois Riolacci). It hosts more Sylvain Boucher. "This entire executive committee is engaged with determination in the successful implementation of the strategic plan," says Veolia. The group recalls that this plan is to refocus on the water, waste and energy services, reduce costs of 420 million euros by 2015, to sell 5 billion euros of assets and reduce debt to below 12 billion euros at end 2013.

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Household consumption, the traditional driver of French growth, declined in September. It fell 0.5% last month, according to figures from INSEE published on Friday, after rising 0.2% in August. Despite this poor performance, the third quarter remains positive consumption rose 0.2% after a particularly bleak picture of the second quarter this indicator fell by 1.9%.

In September, it is the purchase of textile-leather and energy costs which have lowered consumption. These expenditures have dropped respectively by 4.7% and 4% last month, a much greater decline than in previous months. For the textile sector, the wrong number "announcement of hard times," Judge Camille Williencourt, an economist at Natixis. It points out that consumption fell by 17% in this sector since the second quarter of 2007.A sign that the industry "is recovering gradually, after a very poor second quarter impacted by the decision of the cash for clunkers," said Camille Williencourt payday loans for bad credit.

INSEE had Tuesday reported an unexpected improvement of consumer confidence in October. Indeed, they are much less likely to anticipate a rise in unemployment – although the statistics published this week have reported a record high – and are optimistic that this summer on their future standard of living. Other anticipation apparently bodes well for the consumption of the end of the year, they were also more likely to feel the need to make major purchases. But despite these positive developments, "consumer sentiment remains generally depressed, said Helene Baudchon, economist at BNP Paribas, well below its long-term average of 100."

Pasta with pesto sold alongside kebab silkworm larvae or fried chicken feet? This is the crazy challenge of Italian Barilla, which hopes to soon be eating his pasta to the Chinese. "Fast food is an effective way to install the brand and a direct relationship with consumers, said Guido Barilla, chairman of the Italian group that carried out last year EUR 4 billion in sales. If food purchases for the home are traditional, there is now a real interest of people in the street to the kitchens of the world. "

In the Middle Kingdom as in the rest of Asia, food is becoming more and more often on the go, bought in the shops that fill the streets.Or international chains of fast food like McDonald's or Kentucky Fried Chicken, which are present in large cities.

"The goal of Barilla is to be present in twenty years with an offer dedicated to Asia, which is consistent with the true Italian gastronomic tradition, says Guido Barilla. We look at different ways to adapt the offer to local habits with recovery modes that do not exist in the business portfolio of Barilla. "

Ready meals in Europe soon

Therefore no question of selling Barilla noodles Asian or to eat his pasta with chopsticks. The Italian group, which wants to reach consumers in major cities of the region is still at the beginning. He formed earlier this year a regional team of five people based in Singapore. He also sent ten people in Tokyo.All work closely with the headquarters in Parma.

In emerging markets, which account for only 7% of sales, Barilla also looking to South America. "Barilla is a family business, we are not pressed by the objectives of growth or profitability, says Guido Barilla. Our priority now is to install Barilla in new geographies. But we do not make shots. What matters are the group's financial stability and product quality. "

The internationalization of the Italian group has accelerated since the mid-1990s, when Guido and his brothers and sister took over the reins of the company at the death of their father, Pietro, grand-son of the founder.

After settling in France – its second largest market after Italy – and Germany in the 1980s, Barilla headed for the United States.Three years ago, he won first place in the pasta market. Barilla, which generates $ 500 million in sales in the U.S., it now holds 30% market pulp and posted growth of 4 to 5% per year. The Italian was offered four years ago a second plant in the country, near New York. The growth potential is enormous. If the Italians consume 27 kg of pasta per year per capita, Americans eat three times less …

Meanwhile, Barilla brand of pasta popular in Greece and Turkey. In Europe, where the group wants to expand its business scope, it introduced last year pasta with vegetables. This board today the launch of cooked pasta, bearing the signature of chefs.France, where the brand holds 20% of Barilla pasta market, would be among the first countries to sell this product.

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