Business | Suez and Lyonnaise des Eaux
On April fool’s day . . .
|PARIS
ONE of the great myths of European business is that if you combine one unfocused conglomerate with another it will somehow make sense. Back in 1988, Suez, one of France's grandest companies, bought a majority stake in Belgium's Soci
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