The sudden arrival of Daniel Kretinsky at the heart of French capitalism sounded like a coup de theater in the billionaires' ball in Paris.
“He is very young, from another generation than ours and it is an asset, it must be said.
He is never ready to invest sums at a loss, even to afford the media.
It's not the service pigeon
, ”confides to Le
Figaro
Xavier Niel, the founder of Free and shareholder of Le
Monde
.
Illustrious unknown in the country, the 47-year-old Czech businessman has won in just four years several hundred million euros in assets in the country.
Far from his first love in the energy sector, the European king of coal has seized French media well known to the general public:
or
Télé7jours
, before taking a surprise stake in TF1.
And the tricolor flagship of the Fnac-Darty distribution, of which he is today a 20% shareholder.
“He is everywhere, very rich and, above all, very patient”
, sums up a banker…
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