The manufacturer Gemalto smart cards issued Thursday its results for the year in france 2009. The turnover declined by 1.5%, reaching 1.654 billion euros. The net lost 3.27% on a year to 148 million euros. For the first time in its history, the company will pay its first dividend, to 25 cents per share.

The group's operating income amounted to 171 million euros (1.18%), although it is cut by 11 million euros. Indeed Gemalto had to make provision for this sum to settle a malfunction on smart cards in Germany.

During Gemalto has accelerated its growth in external spending 74 million euros for six acquisitions, including a company specializing in mobile electronic signature cashadvance . Google the title should also react.

DuPont has announced a profit of $ 441 million in the fourth quarter against a loss of 629 million a year later.Brought back in action, this equates to earnings of $ 0.48, well above the $ 0.41 expected by the market.

Verizon Communications has announced a net loss of $ 653 million in the fourth quarter against a profit of 1.24 billion a year earlier. The group affected by the cost to attract new customers, however, having seduced announces 2.2 million mobile wireless customers in the quarter, a figure that exceeds the expectations of Wall Street.

Travelers reported, before market, with net earnings up sharply from 60% to 1.285 billion in the fourth quarter. Brought back in action, this is equivalent to 2.12 dollars, above the $ 1.49 expected by analysts.The turnover reached 5.188 billion dollars over the period, down 4% yoy.

Delta Airlines, world's largest airline, announced on Tuesday a net loss of $ 25 million in the fourth quarter, down sharply compared to the 1.438 billion recorded a year earlier. Revenues rose 1% to 6.805 billion dollars, but less than the 6.86 billion expected by analysts.

Texas Instruments has released Exchange Monday after a profit of $ 655 million in the fourth quarter, better than expected by analysts. Side prediction, said the group receiving a high demand on all markets.STMicroelectronics, which publishes its results after the stock market should react in the fuolée.

Johnson & Johnson has announced a net profit in the fourth quarter above expectations at 2.2 billion dollars.

Amgen reported late Monday as forecasts in line with expectations for 2010 earnings per share excluding exceptional items, of $ 1.05 per track while analysts had forecast $ 1.12 on average.

VMware has announced that its 2010 revenues could increase by 21% to 26% after an increase of 8% in 2009 and reported quarterly earnings well above expectations.

Yves Rocher French entrepreneur who founded the brand of beauty products that bears his name, died Saturday in Paris, Lariboisière Hospital. He was 79 years.

Born April 7, 1930 at The Gacilly, a village of Morbihan which he was the mayor (various right) for forty-six years, from 1962 to 2008, Yves Rocher has played the card environmentalist before his time. Having passed through small ads in "Ici Paris" ointment hemorrhoids cons including a Breton healer gave him formula, he founded the famous brand of cosmetics in 1959, supporting its development on the choice of "beauty through plants' and refusing any synthetic product.

In 1965, Yves Rocher is launching a "Green Beauty", now translated into over twenty languages. Focusing initially on sale at a distance, it opens three years later the first store. The following year, he sets up shop in Belgium.After leaving the reins of his business to his son Didier in 1992, he took control in January 1995 after the accidental death of the latter.

"A French industrialist," according to Nicolas Sarkozy

Present in about thirty countries, the Yves Rocher Group achieves a turnover of 2 billion euros, placing it in 18th place worldwide in this sector. Its turnover is three times larger than The Body Shop, its direct competitor bought in 2006 by L'Oreal. Claiming to be "financially healthy, profitable, low debt, despite recent social movements, the group employs over 15,000 people, has nearly 2,000 stores and boasts over 40 million customers.

Saturday, President Nicolas Sarkozy paid tribute to "a French industrialist, inventor of the cosmetics made from plant products and a pioneer of the mail.Yves Rocher, adds a statement of the Presidency, "had managed to build step by step a group serving the beauty of women, invested in the development of sustainable employment and environmental protection, particularly through the Yves Rocher Foundation-Institut de France. "

As expected, the government has again decided against increasing the minimum wage above the statutory minimum. According to the opinion of November 30 last by the group of experts chaired by Paul Champsaur, the minimum wage increase will be limited, given the low inflation observed on Tuesday by INSEE at a rate of 0 , 5%, raising the hourly minimum wage to € 8.86 gross instead of 8.82 or 1343.77 euros gross per month for full time.

Under the reform of the minimum wage passed in late 2008, the adjustment of the minimum wage will apply from 1 January rather than July 1, so as to precede the wage negotiations and corporate sector, which may well occur knowingly.This adjustment should cover some 1.6 million people according to a recent study by the Department of Labor, more than 10% of private sector employees.

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