On Thursday Casino said the binding debt deal was reached with the consortium led by Kretinsky's company EPGC alongside Casino's biggest creditor Attestor, its second-biggest shareholder Fimalac and the retailer's secured creditors. Thursday's announcement finalizes a July agreement in principle which called for 1.2 billion euros ($1.26 billion) of new money to be injected into Casino, as well as a reduction of Casino's debt by 6.1 billion euros.

The deal massively dilutes shareholders and will bring to an end the 30-year reign of 74-year-old Naouri, who controls Casino through his listed holding company Rallye. Casino will formally change hands at the end of March next year. Casino reiterated it had until Oct. If you have just about any queries regarding where by in addition to the way to work with th97 คาสิโนออนไลน์, it is possible to e mail us at our own web site. 25 to obtain from a commercial court the start of an accelerated safeguard procedure under which it could approve the plan with the support of secured creditors and compel reluctant creditors to follow.

The retailer, which is now France's sixth-largest supermarket group, said it planned to pursue discussions with the financial creditors not yet party to the lock-up agreement to get them to sign up to it too. "Casino has reached a major milestone in its financial restructuring process by obtaining the agreement of its main creditors on a financial restructuring plan," CEO and controlling shareholder Jean-Charles Naouri said in a statement. Footfall in Casino supermarkets was up 4% over the past four weeks, the company said.

Casino's Chief Financial Officer David Lubek said price cuts were bringing more customers into the retailer's stores.