EXCLUSIVE – The former head of the M6 group grants the Figaro his first interview since taking up his post at the shipping company CMA CGM as vice-president of CMA Media and interim CEO of BFM and RMC.
Even today, it is perhaps the title of an M6 program that best sums up Nicolas de Tavernost’s situation: “New house for a new life”. Last May, after thirty-seven years at the helm of the M6 group, the emblematic 74-year-old boss changed address. Direction the shipping company CMA CGM, headed by the industrialist Rodolphe Saadé, whose nascent appetite for the media sector had just been resoundingly translated by the purchase of Altice Media (BFMTV, RMC, etc.) from the telecoms tycoon Patrick Drahi, for 1.5 billion euros.
This is just the beginning, assures the Figaro Nicolas de Tavernost, vice-president of the subsidiary CMA Media, headed by Véronique Saadé, which brings together all of the shipowner’s activities in this industry. « Rodolphe Saadé said precisely that he would examine all the opportunities that arise in France and internationally. The ambition…
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