(News Bulletin 247) – With the locator of companies listed in France, an exclusivity of News Bulletin 247, discover these companies in Nice and its region whose capital is open.

The BFM Business Tour de France marks its 11th stage on Wednesday. Once again, the branch is relocating to one of these regional cities which are attracting more and more workers, demonstrating that quality of life and professional dynamism can be perfectly combined. For this second trip of 2023, BFM Business is relocating its antenna to Nice all day, after a stopover in Lyon last April.

On this occasion, thanks to our exclusive tool for locating listed companies, News Bulletin 247 invites you to discover the main companies in the Alpes-Maritimes that are present on the stock market.

Median Technologies (Sophia-Antipolis):

Founded and directed by the Swedish Francophile Fredrik Brag, the company develops iBiopsy technology which implements a deep learning algorithm capable of automatically “reading” the images obtained by scanner or X-ray to screen, with an incomparably greater precision than the human eye, cancerous lesions. This promising and powerful digital biomarker could have a major impact on lung cancer screening in particular and contribute to a very significant reduction in the annual figure of 1.8 million deaths linked to lung cancer by making it possible to diagnose patients at a stage where they could be saved.

Nicox (Sophia-Antipolis):

Founded in 1996, which makes it one of the oldest “biotech” companies in France, the Franco-Italian company has reinvented itself by specializing in innovative therapies aimed at maintaining vision and improving health. ocular. Its first licensed product, Vyzulta, was licensed to ophthalmology leader Bausch + Lomb. The company is developing NCX 470, an eye drop currently in phase 3 clinical trials, the last step before potential marketing, which should make it possible to treat patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension.

Robertet (Grasse):

Created in 1850 and established in Grasse since 1883 in Grasse, Robertet is one of these relatively discreet family companies, but which has an international influence. The firm is indeed the world number 1 in natural ingredients, in particular aromatic products, intended for perfumery. After the acquisition of a minority stake by the Swiss Firmenich in 2019, another Swiss competitor, the giant Givaudan, invited itself to the capital in 2020. But the Maubert family group (CEO Philippe Maubert representing the fourth generation at the helm of the company) remains intractable on the independence of the company.

Farmer’s Society of the Municipal Casino of Cannes (Cannes):

In this context, a farming (gaming) company is a company which has obtained from the State the right to run a gaming house. Without being legally part of the Lucien Barrière casino group, SFCMC benefits from a commercial agreement which allows it to operate the Casino Barrière de Cannes Croisette (originally the municipal casino of Cannes) and the Barrière Les Princes. The company is active in luxury hotels and restaurants, with three hotels (Gray d’Albion, Majestic and Carl Gustaf in Saint-Barth), seventeen restaurants, and its Diane Barrière spa in Saint-Barth. Barth. The Desseigne-Barrière family owns the majority of the funding round.

Virbac (Carros):

Founded in 1968, the animal health specialist controlled by the family of navigator Jean-Pierre Dick is today the sixth largest veterinary laboratory in the world with a presence in more than 100 countries.

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