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Yahoo
7 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Legrand Strengthens Its Positions as World Champion in Datacenters With the Acquisition of Linkk Busway Systems in Asia
LIMOGES, France, June 03, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Legrand (Paris:LR) is pursuing its active bolt-on acquisition strategy with today's announcement of Linkk Busway Systems1. Linkk Busway Systems is an Asian reference specialist in power busbars, particularly for datacenters' grey space. Based in Malaysia, in Beranang, Selangor, Linkk Busway Systems employs over 240 people and generates an annual revenue of around €45 million. Benoît Coquart, Legrand's Chief Executive Officer; commented:"We are thrilled to announce this acquisition, our third since the beginning of the year, and the second one in the fast-growing datacenter market, which already accounted for 20% of Group proforma sales in 2024. It is fully in line with our strategic ambitions for 2030, in particular the strengthening of our positions in buoyant segments linked to the energy and digital transition." KEY FINANCIAL DATES 2025 first-half results : July 31, 2025''Quiet period2" starts : July 1, 2025 ABOUT LEGRAND Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and datacenter markets makes it a benchmark for customers Group harnesses technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work and meet with electrical, digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative and on an approach that involves all teams and stakeholders, Legrand is pursuing a strategy of profitable and responsible growth driven by acquisitions and innovation, with a steady flow of new offerings that include products with enhanced value in use (energy and digital transition solutions: datacenters, digital lifestyles and energy transition offerings).Legrand reported sales of €8.4 billion in 2023. The company is listed on Euronext Paris and is a component stock of the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG and CAC SBT 1.5 indexes. (code ISIN FR0010307819). 1 Subject to customary closing conditions2 Period of time when all communication is suspended in the run-up to publication of results Readers are invited to verify the authenticity of Legrand press releases with the CertiDox app. Learn more at View source version on Contacts INVESTOR RELATIONS & FINANCIAL COMMUNICATIONRonan MARC (Legrand) +33 1 49 72 53 53. PRESS RELATIONSLucie DAUDIGNY (TBWA) +33 6 77 20 71 11.
Globe and Mail
23-05-2025
- Globe and Mail
Robert Munsch's first job in the French countryside turned out to be a stinky situation
Kicking off the first 'How I Spent My Summer' of this year, beloved children's author Robert Munsch shares how he expected farming in the French countryside would be a gorgeous getaway where he'd learn a language, earn a green thumb and be one with nature. Instead, the now 79-year-old slept in a barn, didn't shower all summer and made friends with a mouse. But at least the food was good, he says. The first job I ever had was, strangely enough, hoeing rutabagas in France. I was there in 1966 as a 21-year-old, supposedly learning French. I spent the summer in a tiny little town of 60 people called Aulon in Massif Central, near Limoges, which is kinda the Appalachia of France. Sounds great, right? I thought so. My friend said, 'You'll be gardening in a big beautiful field, the people speak a great dialect, you'll perfect your French.' I thought I'd spend the summer getting in touch with the spirit of the earth, blah blah blah. Instead, I found it ridiculously hard, mind-numbingly boring and to be altogether avoided. There were seven of us – four guys and three girls – and everyone but me was English from England, so I didn't even learn any French. The rutabagas were not very vocal. A rutabaga is like a big turnip. By the time we arrived, they were already growing, so we were basically hoeing weeds between these long rows that went on forever and ever and ever. More like a mile. You'd have to very carefully use your tool to nick all the stuff growing around the rutabaga, but under no circumstances should you nick the rutabaga itself. The farmer would walk around sometimes and yell in French about the nicks. Former Chief Justice shares her first job: 'I covered the Salad Queen contest, which was a big deal in those days' Broadcaster Dan Shulman's first job as a camp 'counsellor in training' was peak teenage living I don't think I was any good at the job, but I didn't get fired either. Nobody got fired. I can't imagine it was an easy job to fill. The pay was so low that I can't even remember what it was, only that it was not good. The guy that got me the job left that piece of information out. The hours were long and slow. We'd start very early in the morning, like 6 a.m., and we'd go until about 11, when we'd stop to have a slow Gallic breakfast. The French cooking was actually quite good, and definitely the best part of the whole thing. We'd have a big salad and what I suspect was rabbit. Maybe some frog legs. What was really interesting about this place was that it was where Caesar had a camp during the Gallic wars. We'd be busy hoeing rutabagas when you'd dig up a piece of Roman statuary. The first time I found one, I said to the boss, 'What should I do with this?' He said, 'Wreck it! Break it into small pieces so the plants can eat it!' But I couldn't do that, so I'd put them in my pocket. By the end of the summer, I had a small collection going. You really had to pay attention to what you were doing, so I didn't have many deep or great thoughts. I wasn't thinking about what came next or what I wanted to be, mostly just, 'God, I have to finish this, when will this be over?' It was disgustingly hard strained physical labour, six days a week, and at the end of every day, you'd wrecked yourself. The first day I felt like I'd been stomped on by an elephant, then I had to get up and do it again the next day. Luckily, they gave us free access to a barn for sleeping. That was also left out of my friend's job description. I made friends with this little mouse in the barn. It had these little ears that stuck up and it was a very good climbing mouse. I suspect it was sniffing my face while I was asleep because it would take off when I woke up. I also got bugs from sleeping in the barn. We all did. You'd be right in the middle of a sentence when something started crawling down your forehead. I was itchy all the time and didn't get a shower until the end of the summer. They were considered a weird North American thing. Yes, we stank. Over the years, I've often wondered why I didn't quit. Maybe I thought since I'd decided I was doing this, I had to do it. Maybe I mistakenly thought being true to myself meant I should stay. Anyhow, I don't know why I stayed, but I did. I finished and then I was done. My wife handles all the gardening now. And I know now that whenever someone says, 'I have a great job for you!' you should run. As told to Rosemary Counter
CTV News
20-05-2025
- CTV News
Driver charged with dangerous driving in Limoges, Ont. on holiday Monday
Ontario Provincial Police say an officer observed a vehicle 'being driven dangerously through a residential area' in Limoges, Ont. on Monday. (OPP/X) A 43-year-old man is facing charges after police witnessed a vehicle driving dangerously in Limoges, Ont. over the weekend. Ontario Provincial Police said shortly before 3 p.m. Monday, an officer observed a vehicle 'being driven dangerously through a residential area, while children were playing.' 'The officer attempted to stop the vehicle, and the then driver fled on foot. An arrest was made a short time later,' the OPP said. The resident of Limoges is facing charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, operation while prohibited under the Criminal Code and driving while under suspension. Police said the vehicle was also impounded for 45 days.
The Independent
13-05-2025
- Health
- The Independent
Woman gives birth on Ryanair flight after Belgian politician comes to her aid
A Ryanair flight gained an unexpected extra passenger mid-air when a baby was born en route to Spain, causing a last-minute diversion to bring the newborn to the ground in France. The baby joins a very small minority whose birthplace will be listed at 18,000 feet in the air, after the newborn arrived on the budget airline's flight from Brussels, Belgium, to Castellon, Spain, on Thursday, 8 May. The flight took off from Brussels at 1.28pm for what is usually a two-hour journey to Castellon. However, not even halfway into the flight, an expectant mother started to give birth, causing the Boeing 737 to descend over France. As the baby started to arrive, the Ryanair flight made a last-minute decision to divert to Limoges, France. The woman who suddenly went into labour was assisted by Belgian member of parliament Kathleen Depoorter, who was travelling with her son, Sebastiaan, to celebrate his birthday in Castellon with his grandmother. 'I saw a woman come out of the bathroom and explain to the stewards that she was feeling unwell,' Ms Depoorter told The Olive Press. 'When I heard her say that she has been pregnant for 37 weeks, all of my alarms started going off.' 'I asked the pilot to make an emergency landing, and he complied,' she added. 'The woman was having contractions every seven minutes, which would have been enough time to land. 'But everything went so fast that we had to construct a maternity ward in the back of the plane, and she gave birth there.' The MP had studied pharmacy, so had some medical knowledge, and her son is a doctor. The pair, along with other medical professionals on board, helped the baby into the world. A midwife managed the delivery of the placenta, whilst a paediatrician checked the baby's health. The team welcomed a baby girl at the back of the Boeing ahead of landing. The mother and her newborn daughter are doing well and are receiving care in a French hospital. 'Helping deliver a baby, 25 years after the last time I gave birth myself, is a very special feeling, especially on an airplane,' Ms Deeporter said. It isn't clear what happened after the diversion regarding the onward journey to Castellon. The Independent has contacted Ryanair for comment. While flying isn't harmful to a pregnant person or their baby, some airlines won't let you fly towards the end of your pregnancy. Ryanair, for example, requires a 'fit to fly' letter from a doctor or midwife once a pregnancy reaches its 28th week, and does not permit travellers beyond the end of the 36th week, although this passenger managed to get on the plane at 37 weeks. Babies being born mid-flight is rare, but it is not unheard of. In March last year, a baby boy was born on an Aeromexico flight by a mother who was fleeing gang violence in Haiti. The couple were heading to an appointment with US immigration officials to discuss their asylum application. That same month, a doctor returning home to London from a holiday in Jordan helped a woman give birth on a Wizz Air flight. The Jordanian woman was helped by another person to translate between her and the doctor during labour.
San Francisco Chronicle
29-04-2025
- San Francisco Chronicle
Book your table at this new Wine Country restaurant before it gets a Michelin star
Over a year ago, my colleague Jess Lander gave readers a preview of Enclos, a fine dining restaurant in Sonoma owned by Stone Edge Farm Vineyards & Winery. ' Can this winery bring a Michelin star to Sonoma?' she teased. Enclos opened in December, and my verdict is in: Yes, it absolutely will. This is not a formal review of Enclos — a distinction that may matter less to readers and more to my editors and me. I've only visited one time as opposed to the customary three for reviews, but that was enough to certify that chef Brian Limoges has made good on his ambition. There is much to find charming about Enclos, from the Victorian building in which it is housed, half a block from Sonoma's downtown plaza, to the copper pots and dried flowers framing the kitchen — a touch that reminded me of Saison and Angler, where Limoges oversaw operations for two years. Waiting for us at our table was a note of welcome, a pen and ink illustration of two deer in a meadow of wildflowers, shaded in with colored pencil. These personalized cards are the work of Larry Nadeau, a nearly 20-year veteran of the French Laundry who now oversees the excellent service at Enclos. If there's a conceit to the restaurant, it's that the 13 or so courses ($235, not including 20% automatic gratuity) in Limoges' menu refract his New England upbringing through a California lens. There's a chawanmushi that nods to clam chowder, venison tartare tarts (tartartes?) that reference the state animal of New Hampshire, where Limoges grew up. The concept is lightly sold and not always a clear throughline for the meal, but those tartlets are so exquisite that had our server told me they were an homage to Chef's favorite movie 'Bambi,' I'd have said, uh huh, any chance I can have another? The raw venison, served in a shell made with smoked oats, is crowned with a dramatic tuft of salty, wispy fried lichen that somewhat resembles nori in texture. In advance of a course of aged tuna belly over Koshihikari rice, a server will visit your table with an intact slab of the fatty fish to demonstrate how 60 days can transform the flesh. The toro was the highlight of my meal. A miraculous brown butter passion fruit zabaglione pitted richness and acidity against one another, and gleaming succulents added crunch. Pastry chef Sophie Hau, most recently of Californios, ensures the meal ends on an operatic high note. The evening's final bites, two wee ice cream sandwiches that resemble Choco Tacos in form, arrive perched on a frame of honeycomb. The two-bite delights left me outraged that honey is not more frequently viewed as a main character rather than just a sweetener. There were a few misses among the hits, most notably a course where duck tortellini were finished at our table with brodo poured from a vintage silver urn. Sipping the broth from the cup left my lips slicked with fat and my tongue wishing for acidity. The gorgeous urn, the honeycomb, the tuna belly show-and-tell — for the most part the dramatic flair works marvelously. But by the end of the evening, my dining companion and I found ourselves sneezing. A course of smoked Wolfe Ranch quail legs is presented tableside, smoke billowing out of a handcrafted wooden box. We were seated in the narrower of the two dining rooms, and my sensitive sinuses grew to dread the arrival of the quail course at the tables around us. (Of note, a friend who was seated in the larger room did not share my sneezy experience.) Regardless of which room you end up in, ask to poke your head into the other. The space, which housed Stone Edge's previous restaurant, Edge, has been overhauled by Jiun Ho, the designer behind Saison. The result feels like a Scandinavian tiny house, one room moody with ebony shou sugi ban'd walls, the other light and clad in cedar. While an astonishingly intricate papercut artwork is a holdover from Edge, the new sheep's wool tapestries that adorn other walls not only add textural dimension but also absorb sound — a thoughtful touch in a restaurant full of thoughtful touches.
