Rivals jockey for position as Bergé withdraws Drouot offer
Pierre Bergé, president of Yves St-Laurent Haute Couture, has withdrawn from the race to acquire control of Drouot Holding SA. The company, which is owned by Paris’s 110 commissaires-priseurs, controls the Hôtel Drouot and the lucrative auction weekly, the Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot.
Bergé withdrew his offer – reportedly worth nearly £30m – on February 5, five days after his origina…