The Bolloré group, managed by the billionaire’s household Vincent Bollorécan pay an distinctive dividend of 4.2 billion euros, in keeping with a decision adopted Wednesday on the basic assembly. This can be a first for the group based greater than 2 hundred years in the past. Of this quantity, some 3.3 billion euros will likely be paid to corporations throughout the group’s scope in addition to to its 71.6% majority shareholder, Compagnie de l’Odet, the Bolloré household holding firm.
Questioned by a shareholder, Cyrille Bolloré, CEO of the group and son of the billionaire, defined that the selection had been made to redistribute obtainable money within the type of dividends relatively than allocate it to investments, within the speedy future. “We now have concepts for redeployments, we’ve got needs immediately, however we predict as soon as once more that it’s not but the time,” he defined, referring specifically to the financial uncertainties linked to the battle in Middle East.
Bolloré Africa Logistics’ cash on the coronary heart of a authorized case
This distinctive dividend is linked to the sale in 2022 and 2024 of Bolloré Africa Logistics and Bolloré Logistics for a complete quantity of roughly 10 billion euros. Bolloré Africa Logistics, bought to the Italian-Swiss shipowner MSC, is linked to the case which resulted in Vincent Bolloré being referred to the Paris felony court docket, specifically for corruption of a overseas public official.
On this so-called “African ports” affair, justice suspects the Bolloré group of getting used the political consulting actions of its subsidiary Euro RSCG (now Havas) to fraudulently receive administration of the ports of Lomé (Togo) and Conakry (Guinea), for the good thing about Bolloré Africa Logistics. This entity, which introduced collectively the actions of the transport department of the Bolloré group, was bought in 2024 to the French shipowner CMA CGM.
15 million for Cyrille Bolloré
The distribution of an distinctive dividend of 1.50 euros per share of the Bolloré group, authorised on Wednesday by the shareholders, is made doable by a carryover of the proceeds of those transfers, carried out throughout earlier monetary years. The group, which made 348 million euros in web revenue in 2025, is current in oil logistics (Bolloré Vitality), business and within the communications sector, the principle driver of its profitability. Within the latter sector, it owns 30.4% of the capital and voting rights of Canal+, Louis Hachette Group and Havas, in addition to 29.3% of Vivendi et 18,4 % d’Common Music Group.
Compagnie de l’Odet, of which Vincent Bolloré is CEO, instantly and not directly holds 71.6% of the capital of the Bolloré group. The group’s basic assembly, which was held within the Parisian enterprise district of La Défense, additionally validated Cyrille Bolloré’s remuneration for the 2025 monetary 12 months. The mounted half quantities to five million euros and he acquired distinctive remuneration reaching 10 million euros.
