An interminable battle has begun in Marseille to take over the coveted newspaper La Provence. Xavier Niel, the boss of Free and 11% shareholder of the daily, has been fighting for two months Rodolphe Saadé, CEO of the Marseille group CMA-CGM, around the buyout of 89% of the shares of Bernard Tapie, placed in compulsory liquidation. In the middle, the 850 employees of the
La Provence
group (La Provence, Corse Matin), who hoped to know the name of their new owner at the start of 2022, are organizing to weigh in on the takeover procedure. They held a general meeting on Wednesday January 26 at the premises of
La Provence,
in the presence of their new lawyer, Me Élise Brand.
“Why do we still not have access to offers?
What is the timeline for the procedure?
What guarantees do we have that the intentions communicated verbally by the buyers will be held? ”,
worried a union representative.
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