2023-10-04 10:47:03
Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and Finance, and Olivia Grégoire, Minister Delegate in charge of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce, Crafts and Tourism, during a press conference on July 1, in Bercy. STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP
DECRYPTION – The president’s call for moderation finds no echo, neither among industrialists nor even at Bercy.
“We are going to put in place, and I will personally see to it, an agreement on margin moderation throughout the sector,” assured the President of the Republic on Sunday September 24. Determined to do everything to ensure that food prices fall on the shelves, Emmanuel Macron castigated the major manufacturers in the sector and promised that “controllers” would carry out checks. The ace. Ten days after its announcement, this agreement on margin moderation seems to be on the rocks. «Nobody knows how to catch the subjectif only from the point of view of competition”, summarizes Richard Panquiault, the boss of Ilec, the federation bringing together the main manufacturers of consumer products. And to specify that its members were “relaunched on several subjects by Bercy for a week, but not this one…”
Questioned on this subject, the Élysée referred to the office of the Minister of the Economy, responsible for implementing the presidential promise…
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