Gérard Pélisson, a visionary boss
Gérard Pélisson died at the age of 91. François GUENET/DIVERGENCE
DISAPPEARANCE – The co-founder of the Accor group, which has become the 6th largest hotel group in the world, has died at the age of 91.
He was a figure of French capitalism. Gérard Pélisson, co-founder of Accor, has just died at the age of 91 “after a long illness“. His name will obviously remain associated with that of the group he created with his sidekick Paul Dubrule, which has become the sixth largest hotel group in the world with 5,445 establishments (Novotel, Ibis, Sofitel, Mercure, Pullman, etc.) and 230,000 employees around the world. “He occupies a special place among the great French bosses, testifies Sébastien Bazin, current CEO ofAccor. They are only a few, with Pierre Bellon (Sodexo) or Alain Mérieux (BioMérieux), starting from scratch, to have created a world leader present in more than a hundred countries..” “He is part of a generation of business leaders who have known several lives, testifies his nephew, Gilles Pélisson, CEO of TF1, who led Accor in the early 2000s. He knew the war, fought in Algeria, and exported, as an entrepreneur, the French know-how with combativeness…
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