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SAUDI ARABIA FRANCE Issue dated 05/04/2017

Huge SFMC deal could suffer from pro-Trump bump in Riyadh

Unfolding over the past four years or so, the saga concerning the SFMC contract between Paris and Saudi Arabia could well run into new turbulence. [...]

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