Cyrille Bolloré, the son of French media mogul Vincent Bolloré, at the moment (July 28) resigned from his place on Common Music Group‘s board with fast impact.
Outdoors of his non-executive directorship on UMG’s board, Cyrille Bolloré serves because the Chairman and Chief Government Officer of France’s Bolloré Group.
An investor replace from UMG issued at the moment mentioned that Bolloré was standing right down to “focus his time and power on the Bolloré Group”.
It added: “Mr. Bolloré stays strongly supportive of UMG´s administration crew and technique.”
It’s no nice shock that Bolloré Jr. and Sr. could also be slightly busy proper now: France’s equal to the SEC – the AMF – dominated final week that the Bolloré Group has to make a public tender supply for Vivendi shares it doesn’t personal within the subsequent six months.
The transfer might doubtlessly delist Vivendi from the general public markets.
In line with Bloomberg, regardless that Vincent Bolloré formally owns lower than 30% of Vivendi, “A Paris court docket in April discovered that the French businessman successfully controls Vivendi by way of his Bolloré SE holding firm and controls the selections made at its shareholders’ conferences.”
The Bolloré Group introduced at the moment that it will be interesting the AMF’s determination.
Cyrille Bolloré’s departure from UMG’s board follows that of Invoice Ackman, who resigned his non-exec place in Could.
In line with its web site, The Bolloré Group owned an 18.5% stake in Common Music Group on the shut of 2024.
As well as, it held 29.3% of Vivendi, which, in flip, owned roughly 10% of UMG’s issued share capital, based on Common’s newest annual report.
This suggests that, by way of the Bolloré Group, Vincent Bolloré controls round 21.4% of Common’s share capital.
An replace from UMG in its annual report for 2024 confirmed that Vivendi SE had a capital curiosity of 14.59% in UMG as of December 10, 2024.
Nonetheless, that very same observe confirmed that on December 10, 2024, Vivendi “notified a brief place of 4.65% because of its entry right into a ahead sale”.
The annual report additional confirmed that 4.65% of Vivendi’s 14.59% capital curiosity in UMG “represents a possible capital curiosity… because of its entry into an fairness swap”.
Vivendi is the earlier proprietor of Common Music Group.
The music firm was ‘spun out’ onto the Paris Euronext in 2021, with Vivendi sustaining a 10% possession stake.
Apart from Vincent Bolloré / The Bolloré Group, Common Music Group’s largest shareholder is a consortium led by China’s Tencent Music and Tencent Holdings (‘Concerto Companions’) which owns round 20% of UMG.Music Enterprise Worldwide
