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Pierre-André de Chalendar: "We need a new captain for Saint-Gobain"

2021-02-25T17:37:35.030Z


INTERVIEW - The group being in great shape, the CEO will hand over the reins on July 1 to his right-hand man, Benoît Bazin.


A page is turning for Saint-Gobain.

Pierre-André de Chalendar, his boss for fourteen years, hands over.

Managing Director of the French building materials giant since 2007, to which he added that of Chairman in 2010, he has profoundly transformed the group.

In 2010, he sold Verallia, the bottled glass division;

he turned the failed attempt to take control of Swiss Sika in 2014 into a financial success;

he led a strategic plan focused on asset rotation.

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From July, Pierre-André de Chalendar will be chairman of the group's board of directors, the general management of which will be entrusted to Benoît Bazin, deputy managing director since the end of 2018. This smooth change comes when the group has resisted crisis.

Its turnover certainly fell 3.8% in 2020, to 38.1 billion euros, and its operating income fell 12.3% to 2.9 billion euros.

But the group posts record results

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Source: lefigaro

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