We have to believe that super profits continue! TotalEnergies has just celebrated its 100th anniversary, good news, good luck and record profits. And to celebrate, the company distributed one hundred shares to each of its 100,000 employees around the world.
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It's a good time to take a look back at the company's history. Because it was born, a century ago, from concerns which echo our modern obsessions: strategic autonomy, energy independence, security of supply, war economy... It is the thirst for fuel of the French army during the First World War which led Georges Clemenceau, then Raymond Poincaré, to want a
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The war is back
At the San Remo Conference in 1920, the former obtained from the British, the dominant power in the Middle East at the time, a first foothold in Mesopotamia through a 25% stake in the Turkish Petroleum Company. The second decides the creation…
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