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  • Vivendi's Financial Information Probed by Regulator

    07/09/2002 10:59:32 AM PDT · by GeneD · 203+ views
    Bloomberg.com ^ | 7/9/02 | Marthe Fourcade, Daniel Tilles and Molly Schuetz
    <p>Paris, July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Vivendi Universal SA is under investigation by French securities regulators over its reporting of financial information since January 2001.</p> <p>The Commission des Operations de Bourse opened a probe ``related to the financial information released by Vivendi'' over the past 17 months, the regulator said in a statement faxed after the close of French trading. Vivendi spokesman Alain Delrieu declined to comment.</p>
  • Pressure Intensifies to Force Vivendi's Chief to Resign

    07/01/2002 11:36:29 AM PDT · by GeneD · 2 replies · 177+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 7/1/02 | Suzanne Kapner
    LONDON, July 1 — The pressure on Jean-Marie Messier to resign as the chief executive of Vivendi Universal intensified over the weekend, after two French directors asked him to step down, a person close to the board said today. The two directors, Jacques Friedmann, who is also a director of BNP Paribas, the large French bank that is among Vivendi's lenders and Henry Lachman, the chief executive of Schneider Electric, were speaking on behalf of Vivendi's five other French directors, this person said. Mr. Messier, he continued, had lost virtually all support among the 14 non-executive directors, making his resignation...