Atos shareholders and creditors will have to make serious efforts if they want the French tech giant to survive the summer. In difficulty for several years and weighed down by 4.6 billion euros in debt, the group (10 billion euros in turnover, 100,000 employees) has not managed to sell the assets it had put into sale. On the one hand, his long negotiations with the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky to sell him his outsourcing activities brought together in the subsidiary Tech Foundations (half of its turnover and its workforce) were unsuccessful and were broken at the end of February; on the other hand, Airbus ended up giving up, in mid-March, on buying its cybersecurity activities from Atos, brought together in its subsidiary BDS. Under these conditions, the negotiations begun several months ago with creditors have become more urgent and vital than ever for the future of the group.
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