Winning bet for the Française des jeux. The FDJ has just published its results for the first half of 2020 and declares a profit of 50 million euros. If this figure is "down compared to last year", as its president, Stéphane Pallez reminds us, the French games manager manages to do better than most companies, very strongly affected by the coronavirus crisis . "We are a resilient company, as soon as our customers get back to their habits they also find an activity with us".
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"We have been resistant to the economic cycle, but we have never known a crisis of this magnitude since the crisis of 1929" thus judges Stéphane Pallez. The FDJ indeed recorded 18% less in terms of funding in the first half of the year. This is explained by a partial closure of the sales network during confinement, "20% of our network was closed, the bars" explains the president of the FDJ. However, the activity "goes a lot through our network, 30,000 points of sale in the territory. So when people find their habits, they want to find their habits and our activity".
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