- During the last Cannes Festival, Qwant had announced a new establishment in the city of festivals to launch a variation devoted to art.
- The sale of the premises concerned fell into the water and for the moment the start-up is not taking action.
- Qwant has just changed governance after a zone of turbulence.
The announcement of the installation of the small French competitor of Google near the Croisette, which is more to develop a variation devoted to art, had caused a stir.
In the Cannes Film Festival, on May 21, Qwant co-founder Eric Leandri and city mayor David Lisnard announced side by side their partnership for this establishment "within a few months" in a space of 810 m2 on the market Forville. Today, there is still no search engine on the horizon in this sector of the hyper center of Cannes.
"They will have priority"
“The promise to sell has been extended several times until December 31. But the sale is unfortunately not concluded, ”confirms the city of Cannes.
A setback linked to the complicated year that the start-up has just experienced, a change in governance of which has just been announced? Exit this project completely? On this subject, Qwant is content to refer to the Cannes town hall.
And the latter remains open. "If the company comes back to us with a purchase proposal, they will have priority," says one side of the town hall. But, in the meantime, a competition will be launched to find a new buyer for this very attractive space in the Forville sector, in full economic development. The municipality must meet "soon" the new management of Qwant to discuss this issue.
"He will discuss his strategy in the coming days"
Since Wednesday, Jean-Claude Ghinozzi, former deputy director, has taken the place at the head of the company of Eric Leandri, whose management has been disputed in surveys published by several media. It was he who had pushed the Cannes file. Will his successor take him over? "He will discuss his strategy in the coming days," it is said.
The only objectives already announced: "strengthening the monetization" of the search engine and "the upcoming arrival of Qwant Mail, where messages are only read by their recipients", which is being "finalized".
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