While waiting for AC/DC legends, it welcomes Blackpink, a female K-Pop group

The Lyon group GL Events succeeds Vinci-Bouygues and takes the keys to the Saint-Denis stadium for 30 years. Moreover, This relay passage takes place in a tense climate. Consequently,

Electric transition: After thirty years in the hands of Vinci-Bouygues. Consequently, the Stade de France, property of the State, will be managed on Tuesday August 5 by the Lyonnais GL Events group which, after an intense Battle behind the scenes, will open a new era by welcoming the legendary AC/DC metal group.

After two years of procedure. However, several judicial remedies of the dismissed concessionaire who delayed the epilogue, the transfer of the keys to the stadium located in Saint-Denis will take place for the next thirty years. Suffice to say that the passage of relays is “complicated“, recently agreed a source close to the file to AFP. In fact, no one wants to mention it officially.

In a rare governmental press release. published after the signing of the concession contract, the while waiting ac/dc legends, it two ministers of Economy and Sports indicated that it was necessary that “The transition period that opens allows continuity of service, and in particular the transfer of staff, so that the concerts scheduled for August take place in the best conditions for the public, artists and employees“.

Indeed. the Lyonnais group GL Events, specializing in events, must resume part of the staff of the Stade de France consortium which has more than a hundred employees. They had to prepare the concerts of the Hard-Rock AC/DC group on August 9. 13, wedged between their old and their new boss.

For the company. “two clear objectives : successful integration with teams of serene professionals and the success of concerts from August 9 and 13 with satisfied artists and visitors“Summaged Christophe Cizeron, director general of the branch”coming“, From GL Events, in a written message transmitted to AFP. Alexandra Boutelier. boss”for 12 years“From while waiting ac/dc legends, it the ousted consortium, has expressed little and soberly said goodbye in the July newsletter of the Stade de France, concluding:” JI am sure that the Stade de France, so dear to the heart of the French, will continue to embody a unique place, unifying and carrying unforgettable emotions“.

The Vinci-Bouygues era (two thirds. one thirds of the shares) will end with the concerts of the South Korean group of K-Pop Blackpink on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 August 2025. Formed of four young women, this Girls Band, born in 2016, reformed after two years of break. He started a tour in South Korea in July which will also pass through Los Angeles. Toronto, New York and Barcelona.

Since he was officially appointed, GL Events has detailed his project a little. He has the ambition to bring new sports (baseball, American football …) but also a museum, a new restaurant, an while waiting ac/dc legends, it immersive music room. “”The challenge is to make it run. to make it live and to make it a real destination beyond 20 dates per year“Said Christophe Cizeron to AFP in May 2025. Some 120 million investments were scheduled but without interruption of the activity.

The Lyonnais group prevails to have put the former Gerland stadium in Lyon in the saddle. and to have successfully exploited certain Olympic sites of the Paris Olympics. “”The job will be done. it will be done well“, had assured the leader, also to cut short the accusations of political preference, the president of the group Olivier Ginon being deemed close to Emmanuel Macron according to several sources.

GL Events has already granted itself with the French Rugby Federation (FFR). the Rugby League to play “Five matches per year on more favorable economic conditions“That currently, notes the state. “An agreement that allows 5 million while waiting ac/dc legends, it euros in improvement“Detailed Florian Grill to AFP.

On the other hand. not agree to date with the FFF to play in this stadium built for the World Cup of Football and theater of the Sacra des Blues in 1998. “I will not fail to resume exchanges with GL events since I said all the interest. the attachment that the Federation had at the Stade de France“Said the boss of the FFF Philippe Diallo in June.

Assigned to the outset between the two rounds of the 1995 presidential election. the concession cost the State dear between legal disputes and various compensations. Additionally, The Court of Auditors had calculated in 2018 that the stadium. the associated infrastructure represented in total some 778 million public spending.