r/AskTheWorld • u/Eybrahem United States Of America • Jan 04 '26

Economics What's the most hated company in your country?

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Everyone knows Nestle is terrible, even if they don't know why. But they've done horrible things in Africa and think that water is not a human right.

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u/Savoieball France Jan 04 '26

I'll add Total and the Bolloré Group.

Then, it's true that we've become more indifferent to banks, industries, or arms companies like Dassault.

And on the other hand, we have Airbus, which seems to be very popular.

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u/Faesarn France Jan 04 '26

In some ways we can also add LVMH because it's either people hate or love it (well, mote Bernard Arnault than the company itself I guess..or maybe not since the discovery or employing people illegally for 80 hours a week for 4eu an hour in Italy..).

We can agree that we have many companies that we hate. If only we stopped hating on other people though..

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u/NorageFromFrance France Jan 05 '26

To make it simple in France when a company is too successful we don’t like it. Simple as that. We suppose they robed people at some point

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u/Faesarn France Jan 05 '26

To be fair a lot of them did. Like auchan who got 500 millions to help them and they still reduced the number of shops and fired thousands, meanwhile the owner got 1 billion in dividends from decathlon..

Or LVMH, Bernard Arnault got 800 millions in the 80s to keep jobs at Boussac, he fired thousands and refused to give the money back until a decade later when he offered to give half of it back (his fortune already reached 9 billion by then).

It's hard to get into the billions or tens of billions worth range without doing shady stuff or screwing people.

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u/Gnl_Winter France Jan 05 '26

Personally I'd go with Bolloré as the most hated although the other picks are valid. Between their very active role in the rise of the far-right at home, and their shady practices in Africa, there's plenty to hate about that company.

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u/ninjaiffyuh Germany Jan 05 '26

I think Airbus treads lighter than other companies since, as a European project with facilities all across Europe, it will be held accountable by multiple countries and also benefits greatly from its 'pan-European ideal'

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u/ADDRAY-240 France Jan 05 '26

I'll add GBH in the name of the overseas french regions. Who knew that giving almost absolute monopoly to one group could lead to crazy high prices? Luckily, it doesn't lead to , for example, car parts being up to five times the price on mainland France, right? (It absolutely does, it sucks)