Yvon Gattaz, the boss of bosses underneath François Mitterrand, has died on the age of 99 | EUROtoday

Yvon Gattaz, former president of the National Council of French Employers (CNPF), from 1981 to 1986, an employers’ group from which Medef emerged, chaired by his son Pierre from 2013 to July 2018, died on the evening of Wednesday 11 to Thursday 12 December, on the age of 99, his household introduced to Agence France-Presse. Familiar with metaphors, tireless inventor of phrases and acronyms – which he himself known as “gattazisms, gattazeries and gattazinades” –, this primary enterprise creator to enter the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences nicknamed demise “EDF”as “lights out”.

Until the tip, the person who prided himself on shifting additional and additional away from a retreat he had by no means taken, displayed limitless power. “Lifetime” president of the Youth and Business Association, which he created in 1986, he was, since 1995, founding president of the Association of Medium-Sized Heritage Enterprises (ASMEP, which turned the Movement of Intermediate-Size Enterprises, METI, in 2015). It was for these titles that François Hollande adorned him, on April 2, 2013, with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.

His motto: “quickly and well”

Son and grandson of Catholic lecturers, Yvon Gattaz was born in Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère) on June 17, 1925. Best baccalaureate in his division, he managed to take superior math and particular math programs at highschool in only one yr. du Parc, in Lyon. He is already torn by the concept of ​​beginning his personal enterprise. Graduating from the Ecole Centrale, the place he had turn into a scholar delegate, he joined the Aciéries du Nord as an engineer in 1948, earlier than becoming a member of Citroën in 1950, as head of metallurgical buying. At 25, he’s heading in the right direction. But the person is in a rush – his motto is “quickly and well”.

With his brother Lucien, he developed a number of enterprise creation tasks. Together, they designed coaxial antenna reducing plugs for tv. Their mannequin is accepted. And, in 1952, in a 110 sq. meter workshop behind a courtyard on rue Oberkampf, in 11^e district of Paris, they based the Radiall firm. They don’t have any cash – their father turned a painter – and so they borrow from buddies. Building on its dazzling success, the corporate transformed to connectors for radars and telecommunications and arrange in Voiron (Isère). Yvon Gattaz will probably be CEO till 1993 after which stay chairman of the supervisory board.

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