Agnès Costa, the sister carrying Fragonard to its centenary
With Françoise and Anne, she runs the Grasse perfume house founded by her great-grandfather in 1926. Fragonard is marking its hundredth year with an…
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Choiseul Sud 2026 ranking: Alpes-Maritimes claims 38 of the 100 “leaders of tomorrow”
The seventh edition of the Institut Choiseul ranking recognises business leaders under 40 from the Région Sud. Start-ups, family firms, culture and…
Camille Andrieu becomes chief executive of CMA Media, Rodolphe Saadé’s media arm
The former chief of staff to the head of CMA CGM succeeds Claire Léost at the helm of the group that brings together BFMTV, RMC and La Tribune, and…
Junior William Joyant, from Haiti to the Riviera: the entrepreneur mapping the party scene
At 24, the founder of Teufy and Oneera holds stakes valued at between €2.5 million and €4 million. Profile of an entrepreneur in a hurry, between Cannes…
La Méridionale changes chief executive eight months after Étienne Melliani’s arrival
The Marseille-based shipping company, a subsidiary of CMA CGM, has handed its management to Charles-Henry de Lignac. His predecessor remains within the…
Riccardo Giraudi, the man who turned Beefbar into a global meat empire
Created in Monaco in 2005, the restaurant concept of the Giraudi group’s chief executive has some forty locations worldwide. This season it has opened at…
Gildo Pastor, from electric cars to the Moon: the Venturi boss scales up
At the Choose France summit, Venturi’s Monaco-based owner announced €250m of investment and nearly 200 jobs in Toulouse for his space business…
Connected defibrillators: Guillaume Fornas succeeds his father as head of Citycare
The Venelles-based SME, which leases more than 10,500 remotely monitored defibrillators, has a new chairman and chief executive. The founder’s son wants…
Krokola, the Marseille chocolate maker that revived Merveilles du Monde, targets €10m
Five years after it was founded, the company run by Amélie Coulombe and Alexandre Kanar posted revenue of €8.3m in 2025 and is expanding the range of the…
Samantha Mane, the heiress taking her family’s Bar-sur-Loup group past €2bn
The first woman to run Mane since its founding in 1871, she has completed her first acquisition and delivered record sales in her first year at the helm…
At the foot of Sainte-Victoire, Julie Davico-Pahin brings thousand-year-old olive trees back to life
After co-founding Ombrea, sold to TotalEnergies, the Aix-en-Provence entrepreneur is working with her father to turn the family land in…
Vincent Lavallée, from restaurants to hotels: the low-profile path of a Martigues investor
From Martigues, his holding company Force Invest runs a restaurant on Place de la Joliette and a hotel in Miramas. He features in Région Sud’s ranking of…
In La Farlède, Promega changes legal form and management
The Var-based maker of radiation protection clothing is becoming a société par actions simplifiée (simplified joint-stock company). Tiffany Zizard has…
Robertet opens Villa Blu, a Grasse accelerator for natural-ingredient start-ups
The Grasse-based natural raw materials specialist is housing the programme in the former headquarters of the Charabot company. Five young companies will…
Nice-based Sclavo moves into dismantling pleasure boats in Fréjus
Approved by the sector’s eco-organisation, the family-owned waste management company is bringing into service this spring a facility dedicated to…
Ophélie Mandier takes the helm of Pierman, the Fréjus-based composites specialist
She succeeds her father, Pierre Mandier, who built up the family-owned industrial group through a series of acquisitions.