Arkema announces that it has signed a 20-year contract with EDF Renewables for the supply of 20 GWh/year of renewable electricity. This partnership will begin in 2026 and will cover 70% of Bostik’s electricity consumption in France. From 2026, 70% of the electricity consumption of Bostik’s 8 French sites will come from solar energy. This approach is in addition to the constant efforts of Bostik teams to reduce CO2 emissions from their activities.
Casino
Following the previous communication of October 16, 2023 relating to the sale by the Casino group of its total stake in Almacenes Éxito S.A. to Grupo Calleja, the Casino group announces that the buyer published in the Colombian newspaper El Colombiano, on December 10, 2023 , the first notice of the Public Purchase Offer which will be launched in Colombia ((the “Colombian TO”) as part of the buyer’s plan to acquire up to 100% of the outstanding shares of the Éxito group, subject to a minimum condition of acquisition of at least 51% of the latter’s outstanding shares.
Exail Technologies
Exail Technologies announces that it has won a new contract worth several million euros for a land mine clearance application for French forces. Delivery of the various systems should take place gradually until 2026. “This new contract illustrates the sales dynamics of Exail’s products and equipment for land defense,” indicates a press release.
Forsee Power
Forsee Power announced the drawing of a tranche of 10 million euros from the European Investment Bank (EIB) as part of the credit agreement for a maximum principal amount of 50 million euros signed with this institution in December 2020. The drawing of this Tranche C has already given rise on December 4 to the issue for the benefit of the EIB of 1,000 new share subscription warrants (BSA) with an exercise price of 5.78 euros per BSA, each BSA giving the right, if exercised, to the subscription of a maximum of 300 new ordinary shares of the company.
Idsud/FDJ
The diversified Idsud group announces the sale of 543,300 shares of the company La Française des Jeux, the leading gambling operator in France, for a total sale price of more than 18 million euros (i.e. an average price per share of 33.17 euros). These 543,300 shares represent 0.284% of the capital of FDJ. Following this operation, Idsud, historic shareholder of La Française des Jeux, retains a stake in FDJ in the amount of 2.797 million shares representing 5.594 million voting rights, or 1.464% of the capital and 1.938% of the rights. vote.
Maat Pharma
Maat Pharma, a late-stage clinical biotechnology company, presented positive results from the Compassionate Access Program in Europe involving 111 patients with the disease at the 2023 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Conference. acute graft-versus-host (aGvHD) and steroid-refractory (SR) or steroid-dependent (SD) patients treated with MaaT013.
Manitou
Manitou and the British company J.C. Bamford Excavators have decided, by mutual agreement, to put an end to all patent infringement disputes between them. These disputes initiated from May 2017 concerned three European patents and led to a set of legal proceedings in France, the United Kingdom and Italy. “The end of these disputes has no impact on the present and future activity of the two parties, as well as on the characteristics of the products marketed by each of them,” specified the French group.
Saint Gobain
Construction materials manufacturer Saint-Gobain has signed with a group of banks an available credit line of 4 billion euros maturing in December 2028, including two extension options of an additional year each. It replaces two available credit lines of 2.5 and 1.5 billion euros maturing in December 2024. The operation was largely oversubscribed with bank commitments exceeding 5 billion euros. 31 banking groups of 12 nationalities participate in this credit line.
This article is originally published on capital.fr
