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France's Billionaire Sun King Hands the Crown to His Son

Alex Webb
France's Billionaire Sun King Hands the Crown to His Son

Vivendi SA's annual meeting lasted two hours, 26 minutes and 31 seconds. To find the moment where chairman Vincent Bollore anoints son Yannick his successor, you have to fast forward to the final 30 seconds. After a brief preamble where Bollore Pere announces it would be his last AGM, and recounts an anecdote about Louis XIV waiting too long to pass control to his son, he revealed the board and corporate governance committee would vote on the nomination shortly.

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