Vincent

""Vincent has a motto: the further you distance yourself, the less control you have,""

"Now emerges "Bolloré, the sea wolf," revealed in L'Express. The young entrepreneur is not only the savior heir, the convincing negotiator, and the social boss: he is also a killer. "Tristan Vieljeux was convinced that he would drive us to bankruptcy," Bolloré justified at the time. "But we counterattacked by focusing on his fragmented capital, the company's weak point." With the family tree of the Protestant family constantly on his desk, Vincent slowly brought them all down, starting with the heiress, Francine, who was married to an executive fired by Tristan, until the cousin Jacques, who didn't want to be the last one to board "the Sperm Whale," a nickname given by the raider to the shipowner. By the end of May 1991, Tristan Vieljeux surrendered, and the fleet of around fifty boats would now fly the Bolloré flag."

"The big operations can resume. Claude Bébéar, the founder of insurer Axa who had supported Bolloré a lot in his raid on Delmas, and had supported him "two or three times during difficult periods," was about to be served: "I like Vincent's conquering side. In rugby, I like these agile breakthroughs by the backs, and it doesn't matter if sometimes they are stopped. Vincent, too, knows how to stop.""

"In the early 80s, the family business was on the verge of bankruptcy. With the help of his brothers, Vincent bought Papeteries Bolloré from Edmond de Rothschild for a symbolic amount of four francs in 1981. Later on, he also acquired Zig-Zag, JOB, and other cigarette paper brands."