Bolloré half year results feedback thread from the meeting:
- Cyrille Bolloré is very pragmatic. He impressed me a lot. Skin in the game helps in managing risks.
- group structure updates with new % ownership of Bolloré by Odet=66,2%
- FF: international did great
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Asia: record results
North America: great and petrol products back up in acticity but not only
Canada: great
BAL: significant recovery in petrol, mining and gas.
Bolloré Energy: record yeat
Electric batteries: aim is to lose less then 100 M€ this year.
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IER: back to a very satisfactory profitability level.
Socfin: great results
Batteries: 10 M€ for fixing issue is still the right number.
Logistics: fret prices doesn't know when it will normalize. We are limited by recruiting difficulties in different countries.
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FF external growth: we missed one by very little. We want to keep growing to havz a critical size. Transpacific is too expensice5and we don't know if trend will hold.
Multiples still high.
Aiming for 1 million controlled containers.
BAL selling process: ongoing
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