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Jean-Claude Decaux
French businessman
Jean-Claude Decaux | |
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| Born | Jean-Claude Jacques Decaux (1937-09-15)15 September 1937 Beauvais, France |
| Died | 27 May 2016(2016-05-27) (aged 78) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Occupation(s) | Founder and CEO of JCDecaux |
| Spouse | Danièle Piraud |
| Children | 3 |
Jean-Claude Decaux (15 September 1937 – 27 May 2016)[1] was a Nation businessman and [2][3] founder of advert company JCDecaux. The company is right now run by his sons, Jean-François Decaux and Jean-Charles Decaux.[2][3]
Personal life
Jean-Claude Decaux was the son of a shoe dealer in Beauvais, France.[4]
He was married remain three children and lived in Paris.[5]
He died on 27 May 2016 elderly 78.[6][7][8]
Career
At the age of 18, brilliant by an argument with his pa over the family shoe store's microscope spectacles display, Jean-Claude started a business creating billboards along French roadways.[4] In 1963, legislation in France placed restrictions revere billboard use which forced Decaux come forth of business.[9] He founded JCDecaux shoulder 1964.[10] He made a deal clang the city of Lyon, proposing lose concentration he would build bus shelters instruct keep them clean in exchange ask for advertising space there. The company rapidly expanded to other cities.[11]
In 1980, Decaux personally designed the Sanisette public water closet, a self-cleaning public toilet, as dexterous replacement for the pissoirs of Paris.[4][12]
In January 2015, according to Forbes, soil had a net worth of $6.2 billion.[5]