Word: lyonnaise
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Bocuse is also the heir to two centuries of family tradition. His ancestors began cooking for paying guests in 1765, on the same site in the Lyonnais village of Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or where his restaurant stands today. It is called simply "Paul Bocuse." Why?
He also finds time to be a banker. As managing director of Crédit Lyonnais, the eighth largest bank in the world (assets: $15.7 billion), Saint-Geours is a proponent of the European movement toward multinational banking consortiums. The bank's two-year-old union with Germany'...
Saint-Geours is one of the many French executives who have built a reputation in the government bureaucracy and then "parachuted" to a lofty position in business. He served with the French mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, later became the government's director of economic forecasts and...
Though the Wallenbergs will own only a relatively small piece of the new bank, Swedish businessmen expect that the family will be responsible for much of its leadership. Instead of a small family merchant bank, they will have a big commercial bank capable of competing more effectively with such multinational...
Under the eye of television cameras, the heads of three leading European banks took their places on gilded Louis XV chairs at an oblong marble table in an 18th century Baroque palace. Each man in turn signed a document. Then the trio toasted the occasion in Moët & Chandon...