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Clichy is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 6.4 km from the center of Paris. The headquarters of the L'Oréal Group, the world's largest company in cosmetics and beauty, Bic, one of the biggest pen producers in the world, and Sony France, a large... electronics and media company, are located in Clichy. The name Clichy was recorded for the first time in the 6th century as Clippiacum, later corrupted into Clichiacum, meaning "estate of Cleppius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. In the 13th century, the plain of Clichy was used as a garenne , i.e. a hunting park, a game preserve for the exclusive use of the king or a lord, and so Clichy became known as Clichy-la-Garenne . Between 1793 and 1795, during the French Revolution, Clichy-la-Garenne was renamed Clichy-la-Patriote , perhaps because the word garenne reminded of the feudal privileges abolished in 1789. After the Revolution, the French administration officially recorded the name of the commune as Clichy only, dropping the "la-Garenne".
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PPR is a French multinational holding company which develop a worldwide brand portfolio distributed in 120 countries. The company was founded in 1963 by the businessman François Pinault and is now run by his son François-Henri Pinault. It is quoted on Euronext Paris and is a constituent of the CAC 40 index. On the 2nd June 1962, François Pinault officially opened the Etablissements Pinault, specialized in wood trade negotiation,... and then in construction material. First a company from Bretagne, it grew organically and thanks to successive acquisitions, it reached national recognition. In 1987, the Pinault group took control of the paper-maker La Chapelle d’Arblay, which faced economic difficulties. It was then sold out to Finnish group Kymmene. Pinault SA was listed in the Second Marché of Bourse de Paris in 1988, and allowed institutions such as the Crédit Lyonnais or the AGF to invest in its company. In March 1990, François Pinault was elected president of CFAO, which specialized in electrical material distribution and negotiation in Africa.
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