Vincent Bolloré

Côte d'Ivoire is an important market for Sarkozy's business friends Martin Bouygues and Vincent Bolloré...

This week Sarkozy has rested on a yacht belonging to Vincent Bolloré whose construction partnership with Martin Bouygues won billions of dollars of contracts in Africa...

In Paris he also met President Jacques Chirac several ministers and a clutch of business people including tycoon Vincent Bolloré...

Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and commodity magnate Vincent Bolloré lobbied keenly for the pipeline...

The Gaullists notably President Jacques Chirac and Michel Dupuch backed by super-rich businessman Vincent Bolloré a major beneficiary of African privatisation favoured Bédié and his Parti Démocratique de Côte d'Ivoire...

Vincent Bolloré a French magnate known as ‘le Petit Prince’ for his armlock on many areas of the Franc Zone’s service economy is keen to add Sonatam to his collection of ex-state tobacco enterprises...

Candidates for the Ivorian sell-off are Industrial Promotion Services (Aga Khan) Dunavent (United States) and a partnership of French tycoon Vincent Bolloré and Malian magnate Cheikna Kagnassi' s Aiglon group...