Cerus
Cerus is the financial Holding of the Italian business man Carlo de Benedetti in France.
This holding was made known by a brilliance blow, like the takeover of Valeo and of the Presses of the City, but undergoes a serious reverse in 1988 in its tenative of tender offer on the General society of Belgium.
From 1990, the company started to cause suspicion in the medium of the Parisian money market.
The first war of the gulf was fatal for him, after August 2nd, 1990, the value of the action, according to that of these credits declined seriously, which has to cause a few years later, a blow of accordion on the capital.
Cerus sold its principal participation in Valéo with the CGIP, the holding financial of the Wendel family, directed by the Baron Ernest Antoine Seilliere.
From this moment, Cerus does not control any more that the Finance company of Geneva, the Banque Duménil-Leblé and its Spanish participations in companies COFIR and COFINH (Copies of Cerus in Spain and Hungary).
The CIR decides at the end of the years 1990, its withdrawal of France, which caused a tender offer on title CERUS.
Presidents
Managing director
- Alain Minc: 1986 - April 1991
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