Financial Times: GDF  Suez Chief Guards Shareholders’ Interests

For Gérard Mestrallet, chief executive of GDF Suez, one of the most important elements of his recent bout of arm-wrestling with France’s prime minister is the signal it sends to his shareholders.

For Mr Mestrallet, though, his willingness to do public battle with his biggest shareholder, shows he is not under the thumb. “It is important for us to have demonstrated to the market, and to the company, that in spite of the presence of the state as a shareholder we are willing to defend completely the interests of all the shareholders,”

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