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John Lewis s managing director has described France as sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat and advised student store British entrepreneurs doing business in the country to pull out.
He made his comments, reported in the Times , at an event in London marking the end of a John Lewis competition for startup companies. Earlier this week he was in Paris to pick up a retail award for his company.
Street advised his audience: If you ve got investments in French businesses, get them out quickly. The eurozone s second largest economy is struggling student store for growth under president François Hollande and the country is not budgeting to come within the EU s 3% budget deficit target until 2017. The French economy has been hampered by low growth and poor tax receipts in recent years.
Street is the most senior student store executive at John Lewis, the employee-owned chain of department stores student store and Waitrose supermarkets. The group plans to open a French-language version of its website, allowing customers to pay in euros for all goods offered online in the UK.
Street is not the first British executive to make undiplomatic comments in off-guard moments. student store In 2000, Christopher Gent, the then chief executive of Vodafone, deployed a German accent while watching a cricket student store match to describe the head of takeover target Mannesmann student store as being more into German poetry and chess .
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Andy Street expresses regret, after branding student store France sclerotic and a nation where nothing works and nobody cares Published: 3 Oct 2014 John Lewis boss forced student store to say sorry as anti-French tirade causes outrage
Many travellers student store at the St Pancras Eurostar terminal agree that France is sclerotic but not that English food is better Published: 3 Oct 2014 What do French people in London think of the John Lewis boss s criticism?
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