Disappointment came Saturday morning for customers to do their shopping at the Galeries Lafayette in Nice: from 9am to 11am, the department store from the Massena was “privatized” for some 6,400 delegates, mostly Chinese, encouraged by their employer The Chinese Tiens Group has chosen to celebrate his twenty years on the French Riviera.
The day before, the delegates, referred blue hats on their heads, had already swept the Promenade des Anglais, in front of stunned Nice, displaying discretion without their “dream” of Côte d’Azur by a sort of human chain. An event immortalized, from the air, by a drone.
“I’m not going to make a state affair but I’m wondering,” Catherine plague, a Niçoise annoyed at not being able to enter Saturday in the Galleries Lafayette. Too bad, I’ll come back this afternoon. They have more money than me, I do not make weight! “
Meanwhile, avenue de Verdun, the artery of luxury brands in the Riviera’s capital, businesses everywhere have displayed Chinese small welcome signs, but the barge is rare.
At Omega, Chinese customers, which is one year with half of sales, had not broken his piggy bank to one of the models of the Swiss brand. Nor Cartier, a few meters away, where staff, sign of the importance attached to that nationality, has a full time Chinese in its ranks. “We have not seen any Chinese customers, confirmed the head of the Georges Rech nearby shop. But that does not matter, for now, they go to the Galeries Lafayette, they’ll come after “
-.” You, you see the sun “-
On Place Massena, a group of 70 Tiens employees from South America, likes to take pictures before the Apollo fountain. “Of course we’re happy to be here, all expenses paid, is delighted Giuliana, Tiens manager for Peru. This is not common, from a business, and to invite 6,400 people on a journey. “
Specialized in food supplements and beauty products, Tiens Group is present in many countries of the world.
The highlight of the festivities took place on Saturday afternoon at Nikaia Palace where delegates were given an appointment for a great show launched by the troops of the Moulin Rouge.
After visiting Paris, they had landed Thursday on the French Riviera aboard a dozen TGV, with a special train. On site, it took no less than 4760 rent hotel rooms for a period of two to five nights. A total of 79 hotels requisitioned between Cannes and Monaco.
“This is a business without limits, slips of anonymity an official of the municipality of Nice. To accommodate their guests, they wanted the high-end. “
The CEO of Tiens, Li Jinyuan, for its part, has its home at the Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais, become Scent of a Woman that of the Chinese …
“This is the largest delegation ever hosted in Europe”, welcomed the UMP deputy mayor Christian Estrosi, who had put the small dishes in the large. On Friday, he received a delegation of two hundred people at the Villa Massena, the home reserved for distinguished guests. At the buffet, the Chinese guests could taste the local specialties such pan Bagnat which, it seems, they love.
The delegates then attended a parade and air and naval, May 8 forces, a parade of old military vehicles. Leading the procession, an American jeep in which was seated the president of Tiens Group, standing, waving, smile a little tense, his supporters massed on the platform of the United States …
” It was the first time I came to Nice and I found people really relax, “confided, visibly happy, a Pekingese congressman. “You at least you see the sun, it is not like in China, pollution … And I feel really proud of what we showed yesterday with the parade for the Armistice.”
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