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France's Record Heat Drives Acquisition Hunt in Cooling Sector as Elite AC Taboo Cracks

France's record heat wave has ignited a race among buyers to acquire cooling firms, forcing a confrontation with a decades-old cultural resistance that cast air-conditioning as American excess and an environmental…

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3 July 2026Markets desk
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