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French Consumer Prices To Rise By 0.2% Year-On-Year In August: INSEE

France’s consumer price index (CPI) is expected to rise by 0.2% in August 2020, after a 0.8% growth in the previous month, according to provisional e...

Weather-Hit Crop To Cut French Wheat Exports By Nearly 40%: Agritel

A sharp fall in France's soft wheat harvest this year due to adverse weather throughout the crop cycle will reduce exports from the European Union's larges...

E. Leclerc Continues To Set The Pace In France, Kantar Data Shows

Market leader E. Leclerc continues to be the pacesetter in the French grocery market, according to the latest data from Kantar, with the Ivry-sur-Seine bas...

French Consumer Confidence Holds Steady In August

French consumer confidence held steady in August as unemployment fears eased further in the euro zone's second-biggest economy, a survey from the INSEE sta...

France’s Casino Group Disposes Of 5% Equity In Mercialys

French retailer Casino has announced the 'additional and definitive' disposal of 5% of Mercialys equity through the Mercialys total return swap (TRS). T...

Happy Drink In Sad Times: Champagne-Makers Gather Pandemic Harvest

Winemakers in France's Champagne region are this week gathering a bumper grape harvest, but there is a bitter aftertaste: the slump in demand for...

France Sells More Wheat And Barley To China Despite Poor Harvest

Brisk Chinese demand for French wheat and barley is continuing this season as a grain import drive by China and its trade clash with Australia provide a we...

Grape Harvest Cut As Pandemic Crushes Bubbly Sales: CIVC

France's champagne makers reached a last-minute agreement to cut the volume of grapes they will harvest this year by more than a fifth as they try to cope...