On Thursday Casino said the binding debt deal was reached with the consortium led by Kretinsky's company EPGC alongside Casino's biggest creditor Attestor, its second-biggest shareholder Fimalac and the retailer's secured creditors. Footfall in Casino supermarkets was up 4% over the past four weeks, the company said. Casino's Chief Financial Officer David Lubek said price cuts were bringing more customers into the retailer's stores. He is also facing political headwinds in his quest to buy Atos' legacy operations in France and failed to win the auction for German utility Steag earlier this year, sources with knowledge with the situation said.

The property investor known for his flashy lifestyle and love of luxury cars, claimed to have purchased the home in Gisborne, located 54 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, for $4.25million in November last year after it passed at auction on the reality TV series. "He's decided to accelerate this development in France, which is all the more interesting for him as he's a francophone and a Francophile," said Denis Olivennes, Kretinsky's right-hand man in France. "He's combining business with pleasure." Kretinsky's Prague-based holding firm employs around 250 people, with only a small plaque to signal its presence on the appropriately-named boulevard-style Paris Street.

It is run by a loyal inner circle of managers, some with small equity stakes. The retailer, which is now France's sixth-largest supermarket group, said it planned to pursue discussions with the financial creditors not yet party to the lock-up agreement to get them to sign up to it too. "Casino has reached a major milestone in its financial restructuring process by obtaining the agreement of its main creditors on a financial restructuring plan," CEO and controlling shareholder Jean-Charles Naouri said in a statement.

Casino will formally change hands at the end of March next year. The deal massively dilutes shareholders and will bring to an end the 30-year reign of 74-year-old Naouri, who controls Casino through his listed holding company Rallye. Thursday's announcement finalizes a July agreement in principle which called for 1.2 billion euros ($1.26 billion) of new money to be injected into Casino, as well as a reduction of Casino's debt by 6.1 billion euros.

Kretinsky, who made his fortune in the energy sector with a string of high-stakes purchases and now owns a house near the Elysee Palace in Paris, is also in talks to become the biggest shareholder in French IT consulting firm Atos. Casino reiterated it had until Oct. 25 to obtain from a commercial court the start of an accelerated safeguard procedure under which it could approve the plan with the support of secured creditors and compel reluctant creditors to follow.

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