In its Tuesday 11 March edition, the French daily Le Monde published a survey on the performance of French groups in 1999, together with a list of the twenty-five largest French groups, classified according to their turnover. The results show a transformation qualified as unprecedented in relation to the previous year. The survey indicates, notably that: i) four firms achieved turnovers of well over or close to FF 250 bn, whereas no group attained that in 1998. These are THOMSONELF...