EDF
Henri Proglio, the new chief executive of the French power company, backtracked from earlier statements on Wednesday, telling Le Figaro that his company was not interested in a stake in Areva.
In a separate interview with the Wall Street Journal, Proglio said EDF could fund its programme of nuclear investments and international expansion through cash.
And on French radio Europe 1, he said he wanted to bring EDF and Veolia closer together, at least 'industrially', although he had no intention of merging the groups. He also said he did not know if electricity prices had to rise, but they would change.
EADS
The parent of Airbus said it was repeating financial guidance relating to the delayed A400M military transporter programme after reports of a potential price increase.
BNP PARIBAS
Deutsche Bank and France's BNP Paribas separately sued Bank of America Corp on Wednesday, claiming that the largest U.S. bank breached its obligations on a total of more than $1.7 billion of mortgage-related transactions.
VEOLIA
Henri Proglio was appointed chairman of Veolia's board of directors and Antoine Frerot chief executive.
RENAULT
Shareholders in Russian car maker AvtoVAZ, including Renault which has a 25 percent share, will sign a rescue deal for the near-bankrupt firm at a meeting in Paris this week, the Russian Prime Minister's deputy chief of staff Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday.
BOUYGUES TELECOM
Egypt's Orascom Telecom would be interested in buying French telecom group Bouygues Telecom if parent Bouygues wanted to sell, but there are currently no discussions, Orascom's chairman told a paper.
DANONE
The dairy group will repurchase 1.17 billion euros of bonds to reduce its debt and lower its average cost of debt from next year, the company said on Wednesday. Danone plans to cancel all the bonds it buys and will not re-issue them.
HAVAS
The advertising group is creating Havas Productions, an audio-visual production agency, in partnership with Direct8, the DTT channel owned by Havas Chairman Vincent Bollore, Le Figaro said. The unit is eyeing acquisitions in the sector.
LVMH
The luxury goods company will pay an interim dividend of 0.35 euros per share on Dec. 2.
CARREFOUR
The world's second-biggest retailer appointed former president of Procter & Gamble unit Global Braun Jose Carlos Gonzalez-Hurtado as chief commercial officer from Dec. 1.
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