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    France postpones start of winter clearance period to Jan. 20

    2020-12-06T09:09:00Z

    The French government has postponed to Jan. 20 the start of the winter clearance period from its initial date of Jan. 6. The clearance period will last four weeks. In radio interview with RMC/BFM TV , the Economy Minister, Bruno Le Maire , added that the measure is aimed ...

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    French economy risks “collapse” with new lockdown

    2020-10-27T16:22:00Z

    A new total or partial Covid-19-related lockdown could lead to a “collapse” of the French economy, according to the Confederation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises ( CPME ). CPME warned that companies are currently “much weaker” than in March, when the government introduced a lockdown, and many, especially the ...

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    ​Gifts to French opticians to be forbidden

    2020-09-21T05:55:00Z

    Initially launched in 1993 in order to regulate relations between industry suppliers and health care professionals, and to ensure the independence of the latter in their choice of products offered to consumers, the so-called “antigifts” French law will be extended to opticians as of Oct. 1 this year. It will ...

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    Novartis, Roche, Genentech fined €444.85 million in France in AMD treatment case

    2020-09-09T16:20:00Z

    The French competition authority, Autorité de la concurrence , has fined the pharmaceutical groups Novartis , Roche and Genentech, a combined €444.85 million for abuse of dominant position to impose the use of the drug Lucentis over its cheaper alternative Avastin in the treatment of age-related ...

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    French customers maintain their eyewear purchase intentions

    2020-06-25T09:58:00Z

    Six weeks after the lockdown restrictions were lifted in France, a new opinion poll of French customers by Opinion Way for Gifo, the national eyewear industry association, broadly confirmed the trends observed in the initial survey about a month ago. Less than 3 percent of the 1,537 respondents said they ...

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    Opticians’ sales down 99.1% in France in April

    2020-05-25T12:29:00Z

    Banque de France reported that optical shops’ revenues in the country decreased by 99.1 percent in April, the only full month under lockdown, as compared to the same month last year. It is the second highest drop rate among all sectors in France, after bicycles and motorbikes, which went ...

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    French social security set to post record deficit

    2020-05-07T15:22:00Z

    The deficit of the French social security is expected to reach a record €41 billion in 2020 because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on public accounts, according to the budget minister Gérarld Darmanin . The social security system is expected to increase spending by €8 billion because of ...