Liquide

After its recent entry into Mexico and Ukraine, Air Liquide now has a presence in 85 countries, and it is keen to get in on the Asian boom.

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"A portfolio of Air Liquide shares is a legacy that will be transmitted from one generation to another."

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Mr. Potier trained as an engineer at the French elite engineering school École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, before joining Air Liquide in 1981.

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As such, Air Liquide has embarked upon a strategy of establishing a small presence in a number of developing markets.

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Over more than a century, Air Liquide has become the world's largest maker of industrial and specialty gases in terms of revenue, with €13.5 billion $18 billion in sales last year.

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For Air Liquide, the prospects are enticing: if just one 1% of the global car fleet were hydrogen-powered, that would represent €15 billion in sales of hydrogen, Mr. Potier says.

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"Certainty on legislative and regulatory issues…is going to be very important as we think about long-term investment in the country," Michael Graff , chief executive of Air Liquide USA, a unit of France's Air Liquide, said at a recent jobs council forum.

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Air Liquide — € 456.75 million bond issue was priced for the industrial gases company Wednesday, via joint-lead managers BNP Paribas SA, Citigroup, HSBC Holdings PLC and Natixis, one of the banks said Thursday.

New Securities Issues 2010

To boost its visibility as well as to finance its development in China, Air Liquide last month sold 1.75 billion yuan, or about €195 million, in bonds—rated single-A by Standard & Poor's—making it the first French company to issue debt in the Chinese currency.

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"The shareholder who enters the Air Liquide shareholders' club generally remains loyal and we feed that loyalty," Mr. Potier says, brandishing a graph showing a constant and regular increase in profits over the past 15 years.

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