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9 unusual facts about Évian


2003 in France

1 June – 29th G8 summit in Évian-les-Bains starts, with tight security and tens of thousands of protesters.

Adelaide, Countess of Burgundy

Adelaide (or Alice, Alix — died 8 March 1279, Évian) was Countess of Burgundy from 1248 until her death.

Earthmind

Earthmind has been working with IUCN and Ramsar in order to provide a work programme enables Danone to invest in wetland carbon projects to offset emissions from its Evian brand.

Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C.

Riboud yet again changed the name of the team to Evian Thonon Gaillard Football Club.

Girl Scouts of the Philippines

In 1946, the GSP was accepted as a tenderfoot member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) during the 11th World Conference held at Evian, France.

Léon Thébaud

Léon Robert Thébaud attended the Évian Conference from July 6 to July 13, 1938 in Évian-les-Bains, France to discuss the issue of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution.

Stonyfield Farm

In 2001, Groupe Danone, a France-based food product company whose brands include Evian bottled water and Danone/Dannon yogurt, purchased an initial 40% of Stonyfield shares.

Tony Underwood

He used to live in Monkston Milton Keynes, he now lives in Évian-les-Bains in France, close to the Swiss border and within easy access to the airport of Geneva.

Umut Bulut

In the 17th week of the season, scored he a winning goal against Evian in a 2–1 win.


CEVA rail

It will link the CFF route Lausanne – Geneva Cornavin – Geneva Airport and the SNCF route Geneva Cornavin – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine – Lyon with lines in the Haute Savoie serving Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, the valley of the Arve to St Gervais and Chamonix and from Annemasse to Annecy.

Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C.

After earning promotion to Ligue 2 for the 2010–11 season, Evian were rumored to be pursuing a move to play its home matches at the Stade de la Praille in Geneva, Switzerland after it was determined that the club's current facility, the Stade Joseph-Moynat, did not meet the Ligue de Football Professionnel's (LFP) standards.

Prior to moving to its current facility, Evian sought to play at the Stade de Genève in nearby Geneva.

Gare de Bellegarde-sur-Valserine

In 1985, Z 7500, Z 9500 and Z 9600 railcars were introduced on the Lyon – Genève/Evian/Saint-Gervais services, then in 1987, the Class BB 25200 locomotives (made available by the introduction of BB 22200 locos) were used with push-pull Corail trains between Lyon and Geneva.

Havas Worldwide

Mercedes Erra (Managing Director, Havas) is the executive president of Havas Worldwide, and credited with the company's Evian campaign "Roller Babies," which made headlines and a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving over 75 million views.

Kim Alley

Traveling through Europe as a fashion model, Kim Alley set the stage for her success by landing high profile campaigns for Lancôme, Evian, and Benetton and was featured in such top fashion magazines as French Vogue, Italian Vogue, Italian Bazaar, and American Elle Magazine.

Nils Alwall

Subsequently he used such shunts, made of glass, as well as his canister-enclosed dialyzer, to treat 1500 patients in renal failure between 1946 and 1960, as reported to the First International Congress of Nephrology held in Evian in September 1960.

Rob Pruitt

Pieces from this time dealt with his exclusion from the art world; his first sculpture at Gavin Brown’s enterprise was an Evian fountain, which, as Mia Fineman points out, is related to baptism and rebirth.

The Mission

The Mission (novel), novel by Hans Habe based on the events surrounding the Evian Conference in 1938

Yeo Hiap Seng

In addition, Yeo's also exclusively manages other international brands such as Red Bull, Gatorade, Evian, Volvic, Uni-President, Allswell, Hain Celestial, and Erika Dairies.


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