"Think of it as a perfect rubber band," Combes said.
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"This is totally incomprehensible," Combes told Reuters in a phone interview.
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CEO Marcelo Claure said Combes is capable of accelerating the company's turnaround.
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Combes told Reuters he would not review the terms of the SFR offer.
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"You can expect that our competitors will not stand still," CEO Combes said.
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The three "tender age" shelters are located in Combes, Raymondville, and Brownsville, Texas.
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Kevin Combes, a resident of Pentagon City, said Amazon could make residential development stall.
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Michel Combes, Sprint's chief financial officer, will take over as Sprint CEO by May 31.
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Mr. Combes and Mr. Russell sometimes fire it up to communicate with other restored posts.
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However, Combes said for now the focus is on integrating and growing the U.S. operations.
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Claure and Combes are expected to assume their new roles on or before May 31.
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"While Combes' abrupt departure from Altice last November will be a focal point for investors, it is important to note that Combes has extensive telecom experience including as CFO of Orange, CEO of Vodafone Europe and of Alcatel," Morgan Stanley analyst Simon Flannery wrote in a note.
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Altice chief executive Michel Combes criticised the decision as "incomprehensible" but withdrew the offer as a result.
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Still, Combes said he expected Sprint to have positive customer additions on a net basis for the year.
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Sprint announced on Wednesday that its Board of Directors appointed CFO Michel Combes to the role of CEO.
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Sprint named CEO Marcelo Claure executive chairman, with chief financial officer Michel Combes moving into the CEO job.
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Combes has come to be recognized as a turnaround strategist during his 30 years in the telecom industry.
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"We are seeing right now a more normalized competitive environment," Chief Executive Michel Combes said in a call with reporters.
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The French telecoms market "remains quite competitive", Altice's chief executive Michel Combes told reporters in a conference call on Wednesday.
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Combes will start Saturday, and current CFO Tarek Robbiati will remain on through January, the company said in a statement.
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Sprint fell about 5 percent after the wireless carrier appointed former Altice NV Chief Executive Michel Combes as chief financial officer.
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Combes has also appointed a new human resources director, Florence Cauvet, as unions warned of rising social tensions in the firm.
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The three centers — in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville — have been rapidly repurposed to serve needs of children including some under 5.
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The Associated Press has learned the locations of three child shelters in Texas&apos Rio Grande Valley, in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville.
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Kraft tells PEOPLE that at the center she visited in Combes, the children were under 12, a mix of boys and girls.
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Sprint shares fell about 5 percent after the wireless carrier appointed former Altice NV Chief Executive Michel Combes as chief financial officer.
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"Yes, we believe that content has an impact on our figures," Altice's chief executive Michel Combes said in a call with reporters.
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Combes most recently served as CEO of Altice NV. He will be appointed to Sprint's board of directors at a later date.
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Combes, who will relocate to Kansas City for his new role, has more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications business.
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Combes previously said the higher prices for those plans could affect future customer additions, as the carrier tries to balance growth with profitability.
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Combes, 55, was ousted from Altice NV as the company sought to reassure investors after its shares dropped 30 percent within a week.
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CEO Michel Combes resigned from the firm shortly after, prompting Drahi to re-instate himself to everyday handling of the business as president.
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It also announced that current CFO Michel Combes will become the company's CEO and current CEO Marcelo Claure will become Sprint's executive chairman.
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Sprint has begun searching for an executive to fill the CFO position that will be left vacant after Combes assumes his new position.
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"It's obvious that by merging the two companies you get the full benefits in terms of accelerating deployment and coverage of network," Combes said.
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I asked Mr. Combes if, when he visits the post, he worries that miscreants will come along and secure the hatch, locking him inside.
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Concern has subsequently grown around the group and its ability to manage its €50bn debt pile, after chief executive Michel Combes resigned last week.
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The Briton briefly got ahead but Vettel used the straightline speed of his Ferrari to sail past on the run up to Les Combes.
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Sprint on Thursday named seasoned turnaround strategist Michel Combes as president and chief financial officer in a move to return the company to profitability.
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"Frankly, we were surprised with the undue and unfounded pressure on the regulators," Altice CEO Michel Combes wrote in emailed comments sent to Reuters.
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SFR's boss Michel Combes told lawmakers at the National Assembly the same month that the group will adjust its workforce to reflect prevailing market conditions.
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Sprint said on Wednesday that it is shifting Marcelo Claure to the role of executive chairman, while elevating current CFO Michel Combes to chief executive.
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T-Mobile and Sprint: T-Mobile (TMUS) CEO John Legere and Sprint (S) CEO Michel Combes will testify before the House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday.
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Altice CEO Michel Combes told French daily Le Figaro in an in interview that the European group, which recently completed the acquisition of Cablevision Systems Corp.
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The letters were addressed to AT&T's chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, Sprint's CEO Michel Combes, T-Mobile's CEO John Legere, and Verizon's CEO Hans Vestberg.
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Weak third-quarter results this month prompted Drahi, whose media empire includes telecoms company SFR, newspaper Liberation and BFM TV, to oust chief executive Michel Combes.
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On a call, Sprint CEO Michel Combes said that merging with T-Mobile would allow Sprint's 5G network to be deployed faster and offer broader coverage.
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Altice CEO Michel Combes told Reuters after the deal was blocked that the company would move on, although he added it might also appeal the decision.
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"We are seeing right now a more normalized competitive environment," Michel Combes, chief executive of France's second biggest telecoms company, said in a call with reporters.
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The executive order came just hours after reports that three centers in southern Texas — in Brownsville, Combes and Raymondville — were being outfitted to accommodate younger children.
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T-Mobile and Sprint: T-Mobile (TMUS) CEO John Legere and Sprint (S) CEO Michel Combes will testify before the US House Judiciary subcommittee on Wednesday.
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Lawyers and medical providers who visited the three shelters — located in Combes, Raymondville, and Brownsville — said they saw playrooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis.
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As customers add more devices other than phones, "it should reduce churn at the end of the day, because that means more devices per account," Combes said.
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One of those facilities is a former private home about 20 miles from the US-Mexico border in Texas town of Combes, operated by Southwest Key Programs.
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Combes was appointed chief operating officer of Altice in 2015, after leaving as head of telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent ahead of its takeover by Finland's Nokia.
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"This move underlines Altice's ambition to continue to invest in the most powerful programs that bring together the largest audiences," Chief Executive Michel Combes said in a statement.
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Combes said Sprint expected the churn level to continue over the next several quarters, as customers who were on promotional pricing plans could leave after the offer ends.
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Patrick Drahi, the founder and majority owner of Altice fired chief executive Michel Combes and pledged last week the group would shift away from acquisitions towards reducing debt.
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Combes added the group expected to generate this year about a third of the 400 million euros in annual savings from the 5,000 job cuts announced in France.
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Combes declined to comment on the costs or savings expected from a redundancy plan signed last week with SFR's two biggest unions to cut 5,000 jobs by mid-2019.
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Patrick Drahi, its billionaire founder and majority owner, fired CEO Michel Combes and pledged last month that Altice would shift away from acquisitions and focus on cutting its debt.
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"Our offer is over and we'll move on to something else," Combes said in the interview, although he added that the group might still appeal against the watchdog's decision.
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Combes told Les Echos this week that the operator, which has launched several promotional offers in recent months, has seen positive net sales in the fourth quarter of last year.
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SFR's plan to cut a third of its workforce over the next three years will create annual savings of about 400 million euros, Combes said in a call with analysts.
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While Sprint has the best price for an unlimited plan in the industry, "these pricing changes could pressure growth ads as they are less promotional than previous offers," Combes said.
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Combes declined to comment on the cost and potential savings of the redundancy plan SFR signed with its two leading unions last week to cut 5,000 jobs by mid-2019.
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The Associated Press reports that at least three facilities housing hundreds of children are already operational in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville, Texas, while a fourth in Houston is being planned.
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"We really need to permit some European champions to emerge," Combes said, to challenge what he called the 'Gafas' - a reference to U.S-based tech giants Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.
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Sprint CEO Michel Combes and and T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray have a message for Washington: If you want to beat China in the 5G race, you'd better approve our merger.
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Altice chief executive Michel Combes criticized AMF's decision as "incomprehensible" and said it would damage the reputation of Paris as a financial center, but he withdrew the offer as a result.
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SFR shares were up 12.6 percent at 0839 GMT, on course for their biggest one-day gain since January, after Combes said he expected the pricing environment to improve in coming months.
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Mr. Combes, 244, and Mr. Russell, 2207, both had collections of artifacts from observer corps posts when they began restoring the one in Cuckfield, chosen because it was in relatively good shape.
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Total employee expenses at SFR in 2015 amounted to 1.2 billion euros, Combes said, meaning the expected savings from the announced 5,000 headcount reduction would represent about a third of that figure.
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Patrick Drahi, the billionaire founder and majority owner of Altice, fired chief executive Michel Combes and pledged this month that Altice would shift away from acquisitions and focus on cutting its debt.
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Altice Group CEO Michel Combes is now head of SFR as well, while Drahi's business partner and Altice co-founder Armando Pereira joined SFR in September to oversee its core telecoms business.
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The Associated Press reported that hundreds of "preschool-age children in crisis" are being housed at the sites in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville, Texas, with the government planning a fourth shelter in Houston.
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"The US has an opportunity to win the race to 5G, and allowing the Sprint and T-Mobile merger would allow America to lead the way," Sprint CEO Michel Combes said on Thursday.
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Sprint Chief Executive Michel Combes said during the conference call with analysts that higher prices for new unlimited wireless plans could affect customer additions as the company tries to balance growth and profitability.
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O). Michel Combes, Sprint's chief financial officer, will take the top job on May 31, replacing CEO Marcelo Claure, who will become chief operating officer at Sprint's controlling shareholder SoftBank Group Corp (9984.
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The Netherlands-based telecom ousted chief executive Michel Combes and brought back founder Patrick Drahi as president on Friday, seeking to reassure investors after its shares lost around 30% in the past week.
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"If Brexit can serve as a revealer - an awakening of consciousness on the grave crisis facing Europe (generally) - that would be a good thing," SFR Chairman and Chief Executive Combes told France's National Assembly.
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He tries to find himself amid the fervor and slips in and out of relationships with two women: the free-spirited Laure (Carole Combes) and the more serious and politically minded Christine (Lola Créton).
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"... the business still faces several structural headwinds and I remain convinced the merger with T-Mobile is the best outcome for our customers, employees, industry and all stakeholders," Sprint Chief Executive Officer Michel Combes said.
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CFDT union delegate Xavier Coutillat said the planned management changes will strengthen the hand of Michel Combes, who came from network equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent after having worked for telco operators Vodafone and France Telecom.
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Experts worry about long-term mental-health effects from the trauma of separation, and the president of a national pediatric association said she was shaken by what she saw at one shelter in Combes, Texas.
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"We are in full compliance with all tax legislation and we have made significant investments in press and media assets in France and will continue to do so," Combes said during a conference call with analysts.
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SFR, which is part of the Altice telecoms and cable group founded by French billionaire Patrick Drahi, said in a statement that the position would be overseen in the meantime by current Altice CEO Michel Combes.
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The children are being sent to three centers in Combes, Raymondville and Brownsville in southern Texas, which have been repurposed to house the youngest migrants, including those younger than 5, The Associated Press reported Tuesday evening.
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" Sprint CEO Michel Combes said in a statement that "our care reps will coordinate with qualified customers and our financial team to find a payment option that works and keep your service uninterrupted during the government shutdown.
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Altice's billionaire founder Patrick Drahi, who holds some 30 percent of its shares, ousted chief executive Michel Combes after the third-quarter results, and Drahi has vowed to sell assets in order to help cut Altice's debt.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Britain's vote last week to leave the European Union is an opportunity to ease off on the bloc's "suicidal" antitrust stance against industrial mergers, the head of French telecoms operator Numericable-SFR, Michel Combes, said on Wednesday.
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"Our updated strategy will significantly strengthen our subsidiaries and put them into an even better competitive position to provide our customers with best-in-class services across all of our markets," said Michel Combes, chief executive officer of Altice.
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Nearly a year after cable operator Numericable's takeover of mobile phone group SFR and four months after the appointment of Numericable-SFR chairman Michel Combes, the company said on Thursday that Eric Denoyer would give up his CEO position.
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"Our updated strategy will significantly strengthen our subsidiaries and put them into an even better competitive position to provide our customers with best-in-class services across all of our markets," Michel Combes, Chief Executive Officer of Altice said.
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PARIS, July 28 (Reuters) - Altice complies fully with French value-added tax rules, Chief Executive Michel Combes said in response to media reports on Friday that its French mobile company SFR Group benefits from lower rates because it owns newspapers.
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With permission from the local council, they cleaned it up and stocked it with Cold War-era supplies, hardware and provisions, which were either donated by former observers, traded for with other collectors or bought on eBay, Mr. Combes said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The French market watchdog's decision to block a buyout offer for SFR by Altice was "totally incomprehensible" and sent a signal of unpredictability that could hurt Paris as a financial center, Altice CEO Michel Combes said on Tuesday.
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"This investment in (optic) fiber plus this investment in media should allow us to turn our net adds in positive territory in fixed as we have done in mobile in the next coming quarters," Chief Executive Officer Michel Combes said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's market watchdog on Tuesday blocked an all-share buyout offer for SFR by European telecoms group Altice, in a rare move which Altice CEO Michel Combes said was "totally incomprehensible" and could hurt Paris as a financial center.
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Asked whether the company had separate blueprints for its 5G future—one for a successful merger and another in case the deal gets crushed—Combes said Thursday's rollout should demonstrate that the company has its schedule to keep independent of the outcome.
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"We don't have the full effect of the investments that we are doing in fibre as well as in content," Chief Executive Officer Michel Combes said in a conference call with reporters, adding that he was confident all these efforts would soon bear fruit.
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"We are seeing right now a more normalized competitive environment although there's still promotional activity, mainly at the low-end of the market, while we are more focused on the high-end of the market" SFR Chief Executive Officer Michel Combes said in a call with reporters.
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Altice USA – Altice CEO Dexter Goei was given the additional title of CEO of the French parent company, Altice NV. Michael Combes resigned as CEO after only a little more than a year on the job, following a weak earnings report that sent the stock spiraling lower.
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After plying them with breakfast burritos and cold brew coffee, there was a half hour presentation to tout the company's achievement, which included testimonials by Sprint CEO Michel Combes, Ericsson Executive Vice President Fredrik Jejdling, and LG's Dr. In-Kyung Kim, head of 210G and mobile research and development.
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"With a slowing economy and with also industrial profits undershooting meaningfully, for us it's no surprise that provisions will have to go up from here," said Gaël Combes, Geneva-based head of equities fundamental research at fund manager Unigestion, which has a small holding of Chinese bank shares.
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While SFR continues to see falling revenue, the business's results were in line with its aim of reining in the rate of shrinkage with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Michel Combes reconfirming guidance for 2016 of revenue improving from 2015's -3.5 percent rate of growth and EBITDA growth moving into the black.
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CREDITORS INVOLVED IN AGREEMENT HAVE AGREED, SUBJECT TO RESOLUTARY CONDITION OF ADOPTION OF FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING PLAN, NOT TO ACCELERATE SOLOCAL`S DEBT France's market watchdog on Tuesday blocked an all-share buyout offer for SFR by Altice, in a rare move which Altice CEO Michel Combes said was "totally incomprehensible" and could hurt Paris as a financial centre.
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