france company

conglomerate
- Dassault Group (French pronunciation: ​[daˈso]; GIMD, Groupe Dassault, or the Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault S.A.) is a France-based group of companies established in 1929 with the creation of Dassault Aviation by Marcel Dassault, and led by son Serge Dassault with cofounder of Dassault Systèmes Charles Edelstenne, and currently Dassault AviationChairman and CEO is Éric Trappier.

• note the company's shamrock emblem
• Serge Dassault (French: [sɛʁʒ daso]; 4 April 1925 – 28 May 2018) was a French heir, business executive and politician. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dassault Group and was a conservative politician. Serge Dassault was the son of Madeline Dassault (née Minckes) and Marcel Dassault, from whom he inherited the Dassault Group. Both his parents are of Jewish heritage but later converted to Roman Catholicism. His father founded the Dassault Aviation in 1929. During the Second World War, he was jailed when his father was sent to Buchenwald for refusing any cooperation with the German aviation industry.^{[citation needed]} He studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He held engineering degrees from the École Polytechnique (class of 1946) and Supaéro(class of 1951). In 1963, he received an EMBAfrom HEC Paris.
• 法國保守派億萬富翁、國會議員達梭（Olivier Dassault）前日在諾曼第乘搭直升機時遇上空難身亡，終年69歲。達梭是已故億萬富翁塞吉．達梭（Serge Dassault）的長子。達梭集團研發生產疾風戰機。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20210309/00180_017.html

- Lagardère (French: [laɡaʁdɛʁ]) is a multinational media conglomerate headquartered in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The group was created in 1992 as Matra, Hachette & Lagardère and once covered a broad range of industries. It is now largely focused on the media sector, in which it is one of the world’s leading companies. Headed by Arnaud Lagardère, the firm does business in almost 40 countries and is structured around four main business lines: its book and electronic publishingdivision (Lagardère Publishing) includes the major imprint Hachette Livre. The Lagardère Travel Retail unit includes store retail, largely in airports and railway stations while the Lagardère Active unit encompasses newspaper, digital media and magazine publishing (including Hachette Filipacchi Médias), radio and television broadcasting and production and advertising sales. Lagardère Sports and Entertainment engages in sports and talent management, sports academies, event management, marketing of sports broadcast rights and management of sports venues.

• Lagardère Sports and Entertainment S.A.S.U. is a sports and entertainment agency subsidiary of Lagardère Group. The subsidiary was formed by the merger of several brands under the group, including Sportfive; World Sport Group; IEC in Sports; Sports Marketing and Management; and Lagardère Unlimited Inc.

• partner with new world development in kai tak sports arena project

transportation
- bollore

• Bolloré is a French transportation company headquartered in Puteaux, on the western outskirts of Paris, France. The company, a paper–energy–plantations–logistics conglomerate, employs 28,000 people around the world.

• economist 1jun19 "empire builder"

- carrefour

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-06/06/content_20925246.htm French retail giant Carrefour SA signed a procurement agreement on Friday for 3,000 metric tons of Hami melons in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to further expand its presence in western China. In addition, the agreement will help the retailer gain an advantage in shipments of agricultural products from the nation's northwest to various markets along the Belt and Road trading routes.

- airbus

• Toulouse, France-based Airbus took the step after an internal review revealed “inaccuracies” in applications for defense-export licenses, it said Tuesday. The development adds to existing investigations by U.K., French, German and Austrian officials concerning commercial and military sales.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-31/airbus-faces-new-u-s-front-in-widening-probe-over-deal-payments
•  NAVBLUE, formally Navtech, is a Canadian company that specializes in airline operations software.^[1][2] They provide products which include solutions for flight planning, aircraft performance, aeronautical charts, crew planning,^[3][4] electronic flight bag and navigational data. NAVBLUE is based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada with an additional office in Hersham, United Kingdom and several satellite offices worldwide. In 2016, Airbus acquired Navtech and merged it with Airbus LUCEM and Airbus ProSky to form NAVBLUE.
• http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1831893/airbus-signs-deal-second-plant-china
• 7月5日，中国航空器材集团公司（下称“中国航材”）在德国柏林与空中巴士公司（下称“空巴”）签订採购140架飞机的协议，其中包括100架A320系列飞机及40架A350XWB系列飞机，总价值达228亿美元（约合1780亿港元）。正在德国访问的中国国家主席习近平和德国总理默克尔见证了协议的签署。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170707/PDF/a6_screen.pdf
•  https://www.ft.com/content/f67dd44e-f345-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00 Airbus is offering an industrial partnership with China on the A380 if Chinese airlines place orders for the world’s largest passenger jet, whose future is in doubt unless it wins new customers. Fabrice Brégier, Airbus’s outgoing chief operating officer, will hold early stage discussions on the subject when he heads to China on Monday as part of a trade mission accompanying French president Emmanuel Macron on his first state visit to the country. Airbus is also proposing to increase production at its Tianjin final assembly line, where it produces four A320 single-aisle aircraft a month. It could increase the rate to five a month, according to people close to the discussions, which would be factored into the planned global increase from just over 50 currently to 60 a month by next year. The talks come as the European aircraft manufacturer hopes to clinch a deal to sell some 100 aircraft to state-owned China Aircraft Leasing Group during the visit, according to reports. The order is likely to be a mix of single and twin aisle planes, with China not expected to order A380s at this stage. The rate increase could also be announced then.
• http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2017/07/airbus-appoints-luo-Gang-lead-new-innovation-centre-in-China.html Luo Gang has been appointed CEO of Airbus’ new innovation centre to be set up in China. A location will be announced at a later date. With a degree in electrical engineering from Tianjin University and an MBA from the London Business School, Gang spent nearly three years establishing Uber China’s business before it was acquired by Didi Chuxing in 2016. His experience in London with UK start-up Rangespan taught him how quickly technology can transform traditional businesses.

• Europe’s largest aerospace firm marked the opening of center in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin with the delivery of the first A330 jet from the plant to Tianjin Airlines. The center is a joint venture between the Aviation Industry Corporation of China [SASADY.UL] and Tianjin Free Trade Zone Investment Company [TJFTZ.UL] and was first agreed during a visit by President Xi Jinping to France in 2014. Airbus already has a final assembly line for single-aisle A320 jets in Tianjin, which began operations in 2008.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-aviation-airbus/airbus-opens-china-a330-plant-amid-market-push-idUSKCN1BV0BV

•  空巴（中国）创新中心合作备忘录签署仪式16日在深圳举行。空巴宣布在深圳成立中国创新中心。　　根据新签署的备忘录，空巴将在深圳设立其在亚太地区唯一一家创新中心。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171117/PDF/a6_screen.pdf

- Thales Group (French: [talɛs]) is a French multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets. Its headquarters are in La Défense (the business district of Paris), and its stock is listed on the Euronext Paris.The company changed its name to Thales (from the Greek philosopher Thales, pronounced [talɛs] reflecting its pronunciation in French) from Thomson-CSF in December 2000 shortly after the £1.3 billion acquisition of Racal Electronics plc, a UK defence electronics group. It is partially state-owned by the French government, and has operations in more than 56 countries.

• 港鐵疑因軟件出問題導致列車相撞，提供CBTC新信號系統承辦商泰雷兹（Thales）代表昨首度開腔回應，指事故與本港獨特的信號系統有關，但否認CBTC系統設計出現失誤，專家團隊已抵港，會全面協助調查，並將於後日向港鐵提交初步調查結果。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190320/00176_013.html

• 加拿大傳媒報道，當地愛民頓市政府決定終止「泰雷茲」為當地輕鐵都會線提供信號系統的合約，批評「泰雷茲」未能提供可靠服務；但「泰雷茲」否認。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20190412/00176_009.html

- Bouygues S.A.specialises in construction (Colas Group and Bouygues Construction), real estate development (Bouygues Immobilier), media (TF1 Group), and telecommunications (Bouygues Telecom).The company was founded by Francis Bouygues in 1952.^[3] In 1970 Bouygues became listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
- Groupe ADP, formerly Aéroports de Paris or ADP (Paris Airports), is an international airport operator based in Paris (France). Groupe ADP owns and manages Parisian international airports Charles de Gaulle Airport, Orly Airport and Le Bourget Airport, all gathered under the brand Paris Aéroport since 2016. Groupe ADP operates 26 international airports. It owns 46,1% of TAV Airports Holding, and 8% of the Schiphol Group. Since 2012, the CEO is Augustin de Romanet. Groupe ADP is owned by the company Aéroports de Paris SA, which is publicly listed at the Euronext Paris (SBF 120 and mid 60). The company L’aéroport de Paris was created as a government-owned corporation in 1945. In 1946, the first provisional terminal at Orly Airport was achieved, as well as the reconstruction of Paris–Le Bourget Airport. In the 1950s, Orly Airport outgrew Le Bourget's traffic, and became the leading Parisian airport, breaking the 1 million passengers/year milestone. Le Bourget launched the first edition of the Paris Air Show in 1953 and switched to business jet operations in 1976. In 1957, L’aéroport de Paris started to look for a land to build a new Parisian airport. Construction of the airport started in 1966 and Charles de Gaulle Airport officially started its operations in March 1974. In 1976, 20 million passengers flew through the Parisian airports. During the 1980s and 1990s, L’aéroport de Paris, which became Aéroports de Paris in 1989 and Paris Aéroport in 2016, built new satellites and terminals for the Charles de Gaulle airport (terminal 2, terminal 3). By 1987, traffic in the Parisian airports grew to 40 million. A TGV train station opened within the Charles de Gaulle airport in 1994.Aéroports de Paris became a public company on 20 April 2005, although the French government retained a majority of the company's shares. In 2008, Aéroports de Paris and Schiphol Group signed a strategic partnership that involved buying 8% of each other's shares to seal the deal.^[2] In 2008, French conglomerate Vinci also bought 3.3% of Aéroports de Paris, calling the airport operator "the heart of its strategic aims".


bank
- The Banque de l'Indochine (French: [bɑ̃k də lɛ̃dɔʃin]) was a bank established in Paris on 21 January 1875 to operate in French Indochina, the rest of Asia, and the Pacific. It issued banknotes, not only in French territories, but also in China and elsewhere.^[a] Up to World War II, the bank experienced three phases of development. From 1875 to 1888, it functioned as a colonial bank to help the French government manage its colonial properties in South-east Asia. Then from 1889 to 1900, the bank shifted its operations from French Indochina to China. Thereafter, from 1900 to 1941, the bank represented the interests of the French government in handling the Boxer indemnity and transacted international trade between France and China. It merged with Banque de Suez in 1974 to form Banque Indosuez, which was then purchased by the Crédit Agricole group, which operated it as Crédit Agricole Indosuez (CAI), until a 2004 merger with Crédit Lyonnais, which created Calyon.
- Group BPCE http://www.bpce.fr/en, http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1616582/french-bank-allows-customers-transfer-money-twitter
- *******La banque Rivaud ou groupe Rivaud est une banque française. La banque Rivaud fut la banque du RPR, devenu UMP, elle fut contrôlée et dirigée par le comte Jean de Beaumont et par son gendre le comte Édouard de Ribes. Le siège historique du groupe est situé rue Notre-Dame-des-Victoires.Elle est composée d’un entrelacs de holdings (130), où s’entrecroisent quelques 800 sociétés, domiciliés pour partie dans les paradis fiscaux, détenant des dizaines de milliers de m2 de bureaux et habitations à Paris, plus de 150 000 hectares de plantations d’hévéas en Asie et en Afrique, des participations diverses (IER, Pathé, ciments français, Intertechnique, Air Liberté...). Le groupe Rivaud fut longtemps considéré comme le groupe le plus secret et verrouillé de la finance française. Plusieurs financiers chevronnés essayèrent de comprendre l’organnigramme du groupe, en vain. Aucune donnée précise n’apporte d’information sur la valeur de ses actifs. La banque Rivaud est contrôlée par deux sociétés, la Socfin, qui fut l'objet d'un raid, et dont Vincent Bolloré détient depuis plus de 44 %, et la Bordelaise africaine, dont eux seuls détiennent la liste des actionnaires. La banque Rivaud, devenue le Groupe Rivaud, est aujourd'hui contrôlée par l'homme d'affaires breton Vincent Bolloré1, par l'intermédiaire de la Socfin. La banque Rivaud a été créée par les quatre frères Rivaud, sous la IIIe République, et développée par le comte Jean de Beaumont et le comte Édouard de Ribes, marié à sa fille Jacqueline, qui prendra la direction de la banque en 19901La banque se développe autour de l'exploitation des matières premières dans les ex-colonies françaises ou anglaises1. Rivaud est ainsi le plus gros apporteur de devises du Kenya par le biais de ses plantations de café et de thé.

• Édouard de Ribes, vicomte puis comte de Ribes, né le 27 janvier 1923 à Paris et mort le 22 mai 2013 dans la même ville, est un administrateur de société français. Nommé associé de la Banque Rivaud et Cie en 1949, il en devient président-directeur général en 1975. Il est président du conseil de surveillance de la Compagnie des caoutchoucs de Padang, président, en 1969, puis président du conseil de surveillance de la Compagnie du Cambodge, vice-président de Bolloré Investissement, à partir de 1994, président du conseil de surveillance de la société financière des Terres Rouges, président du conseil de surveillance des Mines de Kali-Sainte-Thérèse, président de Pathé Cinéma et de Poliet, administrateur de la Société financière des caoutchoucs, de la Société industrielle et financière de l’Artois, de la Société des plantations des Terres Rouges, de la Société africaine forestière et agricole, de la société des Ciments Français, de HR Banque, de Columbia Securities. Il est également administrateur de Ciments Français. 

• https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-ribes-family-collectors-through-centuries
•  https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/a-trio-of-regal-bronzes-from-the-collection-of-louis-xiv

- 法国外贸银行Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created in November 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire (Banque Populaire group) and IXIS (Groupe Caisse d'Epargne).Groupe BPCE owns more than 70% of Natixis while the remaining float is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.1818年 第一家法国储蓄银行（Caisses d'Epargne）在巴黎成立，旨在促进、吸纳和管理大众存款。推出储蓄账户。1837年 储蓄账户的管理交由法国发展银行（Caisse des Dépôts）负责，储蓄银行进行扩张：从1839年的284家发展到1847年的364家。1878年 首家大众银行（Banque Populaire）在昂热开门营业。大众银行由个体企业家创立并为个体企业家服务，更简便地为其项目发展提供融资。1919年 为了方便一战后法国的重建，国家信贷银行（Crédit National）成立。1921年 大众银行中央储蓄部创立（Caisse Centrale des Banques Populaires）。1946年 法国外贸银行创立（Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur），以利于国际贸易交易的发展。1996年 国家信贷银行与法国外贸银行合并而成Natexis S.A.有限公司, 这是近30年来法国的第一宗银行合并案例。1998年 大众银行中央储蓄部并购Natexis S.A.公司，后者成为大众银行集团的上市的壳公司。1999年 大众银行中央储蓄部将其运营业务转移给Natexis S.A.公司。大众银行中央储蓄部改称为大众联邦银行（Banque Fédérale des Banques Populaires）

private equity
- Perceva

-  PAI Partners is a major European private equity house and is the leading private equity investor in the French market. It is one of the oldest firms in the sector with its origins dating back to Paribas Affaires Industrielles, the historical principal investment activity of Paribas, which started operations in 1872. The firm is characterised by its industrial approach to ownership combined with its sector based organisation. PAI provides portfolio companies with the financial and strategic support required to pursue their development and enhance strategic value creation.

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• Ingenico

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-08/29/content_26622965.htm Alipay, an affiliate of billionaire entrepreneur Jack Ma's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd,is pushing forward with plans to expand in Europe, unveiling a partnership withIngenico Group SA that paves the way for hundreds of continental retailers toaccept China's biggest mobile wallet in popular destinations. To cater to Chinese tourists visiting Europe, Alipay needs brick-and-mortar storesfrom LVMH to Sainsbury's on board. An agreement with Ingenico, the processing platform that has thousands ofmerchants as its customers, will facilitate alliances as well as provide a technicalpiece of the puzzle, Douglas Feagin, who heads Alipay's international business, saidin an interview.

insurance
- La MAIF est une société d'assurance mutuelle française dont le siège est situé à Niort, dans les Deux-Sèvres. Elle est membre d'EURESA, un GEIE (Groupement Européen d'intérêt économique) rassemblant 14 assureurs européens. Elle est régie par le code des assurances. La mutuelle est fondée le 17 mai 1934, sous le sigle MAAIF pour Mutuelle d'Assurance Automobile des Instituteurs de France, à Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée), par 156 instituteurs qui en représentaient 301 dont 13 institutrices, réunis au café des Marronniers. Début juin, Edmond Proust est nommé président de la jeune mutuelle. En 1935, celle-ci s’installe à Niort. Depuis, la MAIF a élargi son champ d’action au-delà de l’automobile.

• acquired chateau dauzac in 1988

- La Mutuelle d'assurances du corps de santé français (MACSF) est une société d'assurance mutuelle française créée en 1935 dont le siège social est situé à La Défense et s'affirme comme étant le premier assureur des professionnels de santé2. 

• 1898 : À la suite d'une médiatique procédure judiciaire intentée contre un médecin à la suite d'un accouchement, le Concours médical, déjà fondateur d'œuvres de prévoyance pour l’indemnité maladie, pour les pensions ainsi que l’Association générale, crée le Sou médical, une ligue de protection et de défense professionnelle. Il s’agissait pour chaque médecin, de donner « un sou par jour » pour assurer la défense de leurs confrères, afin que ceux-ci ne soient plus isolés devant la justice.

• 1935 : Le 29 janvier un groupe de 308 médecins, membres de la Confédération des syndicats médicaux français, créent la Mutuelle confédérale des syndicats médicaux français afin de trouver des solutions aux risques assurables des médecins et de leur préparer une retraite. Le siège est à la Domus Medica au 100 bis rue du Cherche-Midi. Le premier Président en est le Dr Pierre Dibos et le premier Directeur est le Dr Astier. Le Dr Vauzanges est nommé administrateur délégué, fonction de contrôle et d'autorité morale.La distribution se fait par agents généraux commissionnés.
• acquired chateau lascombes in 2011

reinsurance

• SCOR is a French-based group of financial services companies, primarily focused on reinsurance. Created in 1970 with the backing of the French government its original name was Société Commerciale de Réassurance, hence SCOR. The SE means it is a "Societas Europaea" or European Society. In 2007, it became the first French listed company to use the "SE" acronym in its name. The main companies of SCOR SE (officially typeset SCOR) include SCOR Global P&C, which provides property and casualty reinsurance, SCOR Global Life, which provides life reinsurance, and SCOR Global Investments, an asset management company. The firm became the world's fifth-largest reinsurer with the CHF 3.4 billion acquisition of Swiss peer Converium in 2007. The firm's shares are listed on Euronext Paris and form part of the CAC Next 20 index. In 2007, Scor de-listed itself from the New York Stock Exchange. On 4 June 2013, SCOR to acquire Generali U.S. and become U.S. Life reinsurance market leader.

Luxury

• Sephora is a French chain of cosmetics stores founded in 1969. Featuring nearly 300 brands, along with its ownprivate label, Sephora offers beauty products including makeup, skincare, body,fragrance, nail color, and haircare. Sephora is owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH as of 1997. The Sephora logo is a white "S"-shaped flame against a black background. The name comes from the Greek spelling of Zipporah (Greek:Σεπφώρα, Sepphōra), the most beautiful wife of Moses.

• first concept sore in asia in shanghai china daily 27sep18

• Kering www.kering.com (formerly PPR Group), feature article about Francois Pinault Bazaar November 2014 issue page 80

• Hangzhou-based e -commerce giant Alibaba and French luxury group Kering reached an agreement  china daily 17aug17

• Carven, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/fashion/2014-11/25/content_18971301.htm French fashion brand Carven consecutively opened the first two freestanding stores in Beijingrecently, as it continues to expand its retail network in China since debuting in Shanghai lastyear.

agriculture
- agroparc avignon http://www.agroparc.com

• Mrs Liu xiaojiang, agroparc avignon and majiang partners international, france was a speaker at the seminar "safety issues in the agro-food sector benchmarking of public policies and players strategies in the context of globalisation" on 26-27jun12

dairy

• Lactalis is a multinational dairy products corporation, owned by the Besnier family and based in Laval, Mayenne, France.^[1] The company's former name was Besnier SA.^[1] It is the largest dairy products group in the world, and is the second largest food products group in France, behind Danone.^[2] It owns brands such as Galbani, Société, Bridel, Président, Rachel's Organicand Valmont.André Besnier started a small cheesemaking company in 1933 and launched its Présidentbrand of Camembert in 1968. In 1990, it acquired Group Bridel (2,300 employees, 10 factories, fourth-largest French dairy group) with a presence in 60 countries. In 1992, it acquired United States cheese company Sorrento. In 1999, la société Besnier became le groupe Lactalis owned by Belgium-based holding company BSA International SA. In 2006, they bought Italian group Galbani, and in 2008, bought Swiss-based cheese maker Baer. In 2011, they bought Italian group Parmalat out of bankruptcy. In 2013, the Sorrento and Precious brands in the US were renamed Galbani, and the Sorrento Lactalis division was renamed Lactalis American Group. In 2007, the French Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, which administers AOC(L'appellation d'origine contrôlée) designations for French food products, refused to permit Lactalis and the dairy cooperative, Isigny-Sainte-Mère, to sell pasteurized Camembert as "true Camembert". These two companies, as of 2007, represented between 80 and 90% of Normandy Camembert sales. In May 2015, Lactalis acquired an 80% stake in Turkish dairy Ak Gida, a subsidiary of Yildiz Holding. In July of 2017 it was announced that Groupe Danone had agreed to sell its Stonyfield Farmsubsidiary to Lactalis for $875 Million ^[9] to avoid anti-trust claims and to clear the way for Danone's acquisition of U.S. organic food producer WhiteWave Foods. Owned by the family controlled Belgium-based holding company BSA International SA.
• Danone, http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1628989/frances-danone-buys-25pc-stake-china-milk-firm-yashili-hk44b A unit of French food giant Danone is buying a 25 per cent stake in Chinese milk powder maker Yashili International for HK$4.39 billion to revive its mainland sales which suffered from the scare over raw milk powder supplied by New Zealand's Fonterra Cooperative Group.

• http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200718/PDF/a9_screen.pdf 法國達能集團16日表示，將在中國投資1億歐元（約8.87億港元）用於開發嬰兒奶粉等專業營養品。達能集團發表新聞公報透露，這一投資將用於在上海設立一家以母乳和腸道健康為主要方向的研發中心和收購青島一家嬰兒奶粉工廠。達能集團公報稱，隨着收購青島工廠，達能集團擁有在中國的第一家嬰兒奶粉生產基地。這項收購同時將惠及位於江蘇無錫的醫療營養品生產基地。

• Lactel is a French/Canadian company specializing in "bio" milk products.^[1] In 1992, Lactel was involved in a Canadian-US government dispute over the Canada-US Free Trade Act of 1989 and the Puerto Rican Health and Safety standard. After years of dispute, Lactel was finally permitted to export to Puerto Rico.
• candia

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-07/24/content_21392704.htm French milk producer Candia, part of the dairy cooperative Sodiaal Group, is lookingto make inroads into the high-end dairy products market in China, with an eye onthe nation's growing demand for imported products. Candia formally entered the Chinese market on Tuesday in Hangzhou, Zhejiangprovince, by teaming up with Zhejiang Native Produce and Animal By-products I/EGroup. "There are many competitors in the Chinese market. Unlike other foreign brandsthat are already in this market, we are not planning to enter the market with all ofour products," said Giampaolo Schiratti, chief executive officer of Candia.

• R&O www.rno.fr, exhibited at restaurant expo 2014

wine
- chateau leoville barton

• member of barton family obliged to flee from france in 1793 during french revolution and in 1940

- Famille Hugel (alsatian wine)

- durfort de duras family founded chateau durfort vivens in 14th century
- chateau giscours

• founded in 14th c
• purchased by a rich cloth merchant pierre de lhomme in 1552

- April le Philipponnat has owned an estate in Aÿ since 1522 and two House Cuvées, named after this year, honour him today. The emblem of the House, the red and gold checkerboard family coat-of-arms, was registered with the French Heraldry in 1698.
- chateau de fargues

• built in 1306 by cardinal raymond guilhem de fargues; owned by de lur family in 1472; by de lur saluces family in 1586

- clos haut-peyraguey

• peyraguey means hill or promontory
• president of bordeaux parliament guillotined during the french revolution

- chateau guiraud

champagne

• Pol Roger was born on 24 December 1831, the son of a lawyer. Beginning as a wholesaler of wine, he started his own champagne house in 1849, with the first growths released in 1853. He received an imperial and royal warrant for the Austro-Hungarian court. The owners of Pol Roger are members of the Primum Familiae Vini. Pol Roger holds the current Royal Warrant as purveyors of champagne to Queen Elizabeth II. Pol Roger had been the favourite champagne of Sir Winston Churchill since 1908.

spirits
- http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-02/26/content_23655186.htm
The world's largest Cognac maker is stepping up its investments in China as it remains upbeaton the company's long-term growth prospects in the country, a top executive said. Frederic Noyere, managing director of LVMH-Moet Hennessy Diageo China, said he believesthat in the future, the wine market in China will center on consumption by the emerging middleclass. Already the company's second-largest market after the United States, China will play a major rolein the French firm's business, Noyere said. Since the end of 2012, sales of high-end imported wine have cooled in China, mainly due to theimplementation of an anti-graft campaign and a crackdown on lavish public spending. Theslowing economy has also dealt a blow. As a result, liquor consumption has shrunk. In addition, a 2015 report from the public relations agency Ruder Finn and market researcherIpsos showed that wines, watches and cars were among the luxury goods that Chineseconsumers had the lowest willingness to buy. After a few years of slow growth, Hennessy's wine and spirit businesses started to pick up in thesecond half of 2015, fueled by demand of from the middle class, and China remains the world'sfastest-growing wine market, Noyere said. 

• Jas Hennessy & Co., or more simply Hennessy (casually referred to as Henny), is a brandy distiller with its headquarterslocated in Cognac, France. Jas Hennessy & Co. sells about 50 million bottles a year worldwide, or more than 40 percent of the world's cognac, making it the largest cognac producer. It is owned by Moët Hennessy, which is in turn owned by LVMH (66%) and Diageo (34%).

• hket 21may19 a28 hennessy family

- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/with-80-000-cognac-remy-defies-china-s-war-on-extravagance

confectionery
- Le caramel d’Isigny est une confiserie lactée de Normandie.

catering
- Sodexo (formerly Sodexho Alliance) is a French food services and facilities management company headquartered in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux.^[2] Sodexo is one of the world's largest multinational corporations, with 420,000 employees that represent 130 nationalities and are present on 34,000 sites in 80 countries. Sodexo serves many sectors, including private corporations, government agencies, schools from preschool through university (including seminaries and trade schools), hospitals and clinics, assisted-living facilities, military bases, and prisons. As of 2016 subsidiary Sodexo Justice Services operated support services in 122 prisons in eight countries, including 42 in the Netherlands, 34 in France, and others in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Chile, as well as running 5 prisons directly in the UK.

• won contract to operate airport lounges of cathay pacific 

retail
- Groupe Casino (or Casino Guichard-Perrachon) is a French mass retailer with operations around the world. The company is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange and its majority shareholder is Rallye SA. The company's head office is in Saint-Étienne.In 1892, Geoffroy Guichard became the sole proprietor of a grocery store located in the old Casino Lyrique cabaret in Saint-Étienne, which remained the Group’s flagship store for many years and is the origin of the group’s current title. On June 25, 1898 Geoffroy Guichard opened the first branch store in Veauche and, on August 2 of the same year, he set up the Société des Magasins du Casino et Établissements Économiques d'Alimentation, operating under the name "Guichard-Perrachon & Cie". By 1992, the group had acquired La Ruche Méridionale before merging with Rallye, a French retailer owned by Jean-Charles Naouri, by giving 30% of Casino. 1997 saw the development of a hostile takeover bid from retailer Promodès. However, the bid fell through due to the combined efforts of Jean-Charles Naouri, the Guichard family, and the Group’s employees. The following year, Jean-Charles Naouri became the Group’s majority shareholder. Between 2000 and 2001, Casino acquired 50% of the variety retailer Monoprix as well as the discount chains Franprix, Leader Price, and Cdiscount. Banque Casino was founded and the property company Mercialys is established to manage the Group’s shopping centers. In 2007, the Group inaugurated its new headquarters in Saint-Étienne, its historical stronghold. In 2010, the group acquired Carrefour’s interests in Thailand. The same year the GreenYellow subsidiary connected its first solar power plant to the French power grid. In 2011 Casino opposed the merger of Pão de Açucar and Carrefour in Brazil.^[5] In 2017, Casino was accused of bribing Brazilian officials to prevent a state bank to support the merge.^[6] In June 2012 the Group acquired a 50% stake in Monoprix from the Galeries Lafayette.^[7] Later that month they also acquired a controlling interest in the Brazil-based Pão de Açúcar. More recently, Groupe Casino gained management control of two of the Groupe’s foundational assets: GPA in Brazil and Monoprix in France. 

• Monoprix, one of France’s biggest grocery store chains, said on Monday it will start selling its products to customers in Paris through Amazon’s Prime Now service this year, a move that will reverberate through the country’s food retail industry.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-casino-amazon-groceries/amazon-wins-grocery-foothold-in-france-through-monoprix-deal-idUSKBN1H22PR
• brazil

•  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/gpa-agrees-to-sell-stake-in-via-varejo-for-r-4-75-share 
  Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA is set to auction its stake in Via Varejo, a Brazilian electronics retailer the debt-saddled French grocer has been trying to sell since 2016.

energy

• Total http://www.total.com/en/, article on new head of Total (Patrick Pouyanne) ft 25oct14 page 11
• Areva, http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1727064/french-nuclear-decline-exposed-areva-confronts-cash-crunch, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d5d7d824-0aa5-11e5-a8e8-00144feabdc0.html For years French state-controlled nuclear group EDF made no secret of wanting to break up Areva, its supplier, to become the undisputed champion of one of the country’s most important strategic industries.  Late on Wednesday, after a day of high-level government meetings, EDF finally got its way. Ministers in effect decided to handover Areva’s core reactor business to EDF. 
•  Engie (known as GDF Suez prior to April 2015) is a French multinational electric utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbevoie, which operates in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas, nuclear and renewable energy. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Engie is a pioneer in nuclear energy in Europe with the development of the first pressurised water reactor built in Belgium. It is one of  the few players in the sector to develop expert skills in both upstream (engineering, purchasing, operation, maintenance) and downstream (waste management, dismantling) activities. As a nuclear operator, ENGIE owns and operates seven reactors in Belgium through Electrabel, owns stakes in the Chooz and Tricastin plants in France (1,208 MW – the equivalent of one nuclear reactor) and has drawing rights in Germany. The company, formed on 22 July 2008 by the merger of Gaz de France and Suez, traces its origins to the Universal Suez Canal Company founded in 1858 to construct the Suez Canal. Since the merger in 2008, the French state holds approximately a third of the company. It adopted the "Engie" name in April 2015 in order to emphasize the changing nature of its energy business and de-emphasize its historical role as a nationalized gas monopoly. The company holds a 35% stake in Suez Environnement, the water treatment and waste management company spun off from Suez at the time of the merger. GDF Suez bought 70% of Britain's International Power in August 2010, creating the world's largest independent utility company. The purchase of the remaining 30% was announced by GDF Suez in April 2012, and the transaction completed in July 2012. On July 1, 2015, the company announced the acquisition of solar parks developer Solairedirect, which makes it the largest solar power electricity producer in France.
• Edf

• http://m.chinadaily.com.cn/en/2015-09/10/content_21840063.htm  France's EDF Energy has insisted it is still working well with its two Chinesepartners on the Hinkley Point nuclear project in the United Kingdom, after separatereports in the British media suggested the two sides had hit problems on trashingout the terms of their shared investment. EDF said it would not comment on the reports in The Daily Telegraph and theFinancial Times.

- gas

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2016-02/27/content_23665687.htm French industrial and medical gas maker Air Liquide opened its fifth global research and technology center in Shanghai on Thursday, expressing confidence in the Chinese market. The center will become a major base for the company's innovation in the Asia-Pacific region. Its work will focus mainly on energy efficiency, CO2 emission reduction, wastewater treatment, urban air quality, food safety and healthcare. "This new center will allow Chinese customers to benefit from the group's innovative solutions and global innovation network and help tackle environmental and societal challenges," said Benoit Potier, chairman and CEO of Air Liquide.

- Neoen is a renewable energy company headquartered in Paris, France. It owns and operates solar and wind farms in 13 countries on four continents.Neoen est une entreprise fondée en 2008 par des anciens de LDCom4. La Société par actions simplifiée est une ancienne filiale de Direct Énergie4,5. Au 30 juin 2019, le groupe Impala, fondé et détenu par Jacques Veyrat et sa famille, est l'actionnaire majoritaire de Neoen avec 50,1 % des parts6. L'entreprise est présente en Francedepuis 2008, au Portugal (depuis 2010), en Australie (depuis 2012), au Salvador (depuis 2014)7, en Finlande (depuis 2018) et en Jamaïque (depuis 2019)8 et développe également des projets situés en Irlande, en Zambie (depuis 2016) et en Argentine (depuis 2017)9.

• French power producer Neoen SA (NEOEN.PA) said on Tuesday it will expand its Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, the world’s largest lithium ion battery, by 50% to help improve stability of the state’s power grid.The A$71 million ($48 million) project will enlarge the 100 megawatt battery, which is owned and operated by Neoen, and was built two years ago in conjunction with Tesla Inc (TSLA.O).https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hornsdalepower-expansion-neoen/neoen-to-expand-worlds-largest-lithium-ion-battery-in-australia-idUSKBN1XT06T

national defence

• DCNS is a French industrial group specialised in naval defence and energy. The Group employs more than 13,000 people in 10 countries. DCNS, a private law company in which the French state holds a 64% stake, Thales 35% and the personnel a 1% stake, is the heir to the French naval dockyards and the “Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales” (DCAN), which became the DCN (“Direction des Constructions Navales”) in 1991 and DCNS since 2007.

optics
- Essilor International S.A. is a French company that produces ophthalmic lenses along with ophthalmic optical equipment. It is based in Charenton-le-Pont (near Paris), France, and quoted on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange. It is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 share index. Essilor is responsible for creating Varilux, the world's first progressive lens which corrects presbyopia and allows clear vision in the wearer's near, intermediate and far vision.^[2] The company formed from the merger of ophthalmic firms Essel and Silor in 1972.^[3] Essilor now operates in over 100 countries over five continents. Its activities are largely focused on research and development. It is the world's largest manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses. In January 2017 it announced a merger with Luxottica to be completed by the end of 2017, resulting in combined market capitalization of appropriately €46 billion.

construction

- Lafarge (cement) www.lafarge.com, merged with Holcim

• http://www.economist.com/news/business/21721437-boss-lafargeholcim-resigns-over-scandal-syria-giant-cement-firm-may-have LafargeHolcim, a French-Swiss cement-maker, blundered so badly while running operations in Syria as fighting raged. On April 24th the firm said that its chief executive, Eric Olsen, will go, a casualty of a growing scandal over its activities in the country. The board of the world’s biggest cement producer stated only last month that Mr Olsen was not responsible for, nor aware of, wrongdoing by the firm in Syria. 

- Vinci, corporately styled VINCI, is a French concessions and construction company founded in 1899 as Société Générale d'Enterprises. The company was founded by Alexandre Giros and Louis Loucheur as Société Générale d’Entreprises S.A. (SGE) in 1899.^[4] In 1986 SGE acquired Sogea, founded in 1878.^[4] In 1988 the company acquired Campenon Bernard, a civil engineering and development firm founded in 1920.^[4] In 1991 SGE acquired Norwest Holst, a British civil engineering firm founded in 1969. In 2000 the company changed its name to Vinci.^[4] In 2001, it acquired Groupe GTM, which was a combination of Dumez, founded in 1880, and GTM, founded in 1891.^[4] In 2006 the company acquired Autoroutes du Sud de la France (the Southern Freeways Company).^[5] In February 2007 Vinci completed the acquisition of Soletanche-Bachy, the world second largest leading geotechnical specialist contractor, after Bauer.^[6] In September 2008 Vinci bought the UK operations of Taylor Woodrow Construction. In 2010, Vinci acquired Cegelec,^[8] and the European aggregates businesses of Tarmac.^[9] In September 2010, Vinci obtained Meteor Parking from the Go-Ahead Group.

• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/vinci-to-acquire-lima-toll-road-in-peru-for-1-7-billion
• https://www.transport-network.co.uk/Vinci-snaps-up-Gatwick-in-Brexit-bargain/15552 French firm VINCI Airports has secured a majority stake in Gatwick Airport after taking advantage of Brexit uncertainty. The firm, a subsidiary of infrastructure firm VINCI Concessions, said it has signed an agreement to acquire an effective 50.01% stake in Gatwick Airport Limited the UK’s second largest airport. The transaction is expected to complete in the first half of 2019. The shares were sold by Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), which will manage the other 49.99%.
• https://www.ft.com/content/85b07cda-1414-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e Now the construction company has its eyes on an even bigger prize: the group that runs the two big international airports in Paris. If it can secure a deal for Groupe ADP, which operates Orly in the south of the city and Charles de Gaulle in the north, then it could go some way to solve one of the company’s main problems. Ownership of ADP, which comes with exposure to Turkey, would build up the group’s longer-term revenue streams to complement its shorter-term ones in sectors such as construction.

- Saint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie. Originally a mirror manufacturer, it now also produces a variety of construction and high-performance materials. 

•  Since the middle of the 17th century, luxury products such as silk textiles, lace and mirrors were in high demand. In the 1660s, mirrors had become very popular among the upper classes of society: Italian cabinets, châteaux and ornate side tables and pier-tables were decorated with this expensive and luxurious product. At the time, however, the French were not known for mirror technology; instead, the Republic of Venice was known as the world leader in glass manufacturing, controlling a technical and commercial monopoly of the glass and mirror business.^{[citation needed]} French minister of finance Olivier Bluche wanted France to become completely self-sufficient in meeting domestic demand for luxury products, thereby strengthening the national economy. Colbert established by letters patent the public enterprise Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs (French pronunciation: ​[manyfaktyʁ ʁwajal də ɡlas də miʁwaʁ], Royal Mirror-Glass Factory) in October 1665. The company was created for a period of twenty years and would be financed in part by the State. The beneficiary and first director was the French financier Nicolas du Noyer, receiver of taxes of Orléans, who was granted a monopoly of making glass and mirror-glass for a period of twenty years. The company had the informal name Compagnie du Noyer.To compete with the Italian mirror industry, Colbert commissioned several Venetian glassworkers he had enticed to Paris to work for the company. The first unblemished mirrors were produced in 1666. Soon the mirrors created in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, under the French company, began to rival those of Venice.Though the Compagnie du Noyer was reduced at times to importing Venetian glass and finishing it in France, by September 1672 the royal French manufacturer was on a sufficiently sound footing for the importation of glass to be forbidden to any of Louis' subjects, under any conditions.^[8] In 1678, the company produced the glass for the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. In 1683 the company's financial arrangement with the State was renewed for another two decades. However, in 1688 the rival Compagnie Thévart was created, also financed in part by the state. Compagnie Thévart used a new pouring process that allowed it to make plate glass mirrors measuring at least 60 by 40 inches wide (1.5 by 1.0 m), much bigger than the 40 inches (1.0 m) which the Compagnie du Noyer could create. The two companies were in competition for seven years, until 1695, when the economy slowed down and their technical and commercial rivalry became counterproductive. Under an order from the French government, the two companies were forced to merge, creating the Compagnie Plastier. In 1702 Compagnie Plastier declared bankruptcy. A group of Franco-Swiss Protestant bankers rescued the collapsing company, changing the name to Compagnie Dagincourt. At the same time, the company was provided royal patents which allowed it to maintain a legal monopoly in the glass-manufacturing industry up until the French Revolution (1789), despite fierce, sometimes violent, protests from free enterprise partisans.

• The company has been operating in China for three decades, and aims to become a major player in habitat and construction materials, especially glasses and mortar.Saint-Gobain currently employs about 9,000 people in China. In 2016, it made revenue of over 1.15 billion euros ($1.37 billion). The company has more than 200 engineers at its Shanghai research and development center to create new products and solutions tailored for the Chinese market.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/cn_eu/2017-11/28/content_35107533.htm

real estate
- Klépierre is a French real estate investment trust (REIT) and Europe’s second-biggest publicly traded mall operator. It was founded in 1990.^[3] It focuses on the ownership, management and development of shopping centers across Continental Europe. The company’s largest shareholders are Simon Property Group, which owns 20.3% of the shares, and APG (13.1%), a Netherlands-based pension fund. 
- Unibail-Rodamco SE is a European company, headquartered in Paris, that specializes in commercial property investments. It is the largest commercial real estate company in Europe.^[1] Unibail-Rodamco was created in June 2007 through the merger of Unibail (created in France in 1968) and Rodamco Europe (created in 1999 in the Netherlands) . Unibail-Rodamco manages three types of assets: shopping centers, convention centers and office properties. Unibail was founded as a finance leasing unit in 1968 by the company then known as Worms & Cie. In 1991, the company started to focus on the property investment sector, and to phase out involvement in lease financing. 

electric equipment

• http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2017-03/28/content_28700302.htm French electric equipment and automation company Schneider Electric SA has committed to stepping up efforts to boost the digital and intelligent transformation of China's manufacturing industry.Schneider is working together with Chinese companies under the Made in China 2025 strategy, to promote the digital transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry by improving energy efficiency and reducing costs, according to Tricoire. The company now operates 26 plants, eight logistics centers, three R&D centers and 40 branches, and has 26,000 employees in China.

- aviation

• Air france

• Union de Transports Aériens (UTA), formed in 1963 as a result of a merger between Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT) and Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI), was the largest wholly privately owned, independent^{[nb 1]} airline in France. It was also the second-largest international, as well as the second principal intercontinental, French airline^{[nb 2]} and a full member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) since its inception.The airline was a subsidiary of Compagnie Maritime des Chargeurs Réunis, the French shipping line founded and controlled by the Fabre family, but was absorbed into Air France between 1990 and 1992.

•  Note luc marie bayle's map in 1948 showing TAI's routes https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~268610~90042850:TAI---Transports-Aeriens-Interconti
•  法國航空前日宣布未來數年裁員約七千六百人，其中近千人來自姊妹航空公司HOP！。大批法航及HOP！的工會成員及員工同日在巴黎及南特示威，抗議公司裁員。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200705/00180_012.html

• Minerve (IATA: IW, ICAO: MIN, Call sign: Minerve) was a French airline, headquartered in the 1st arrondissement of Paris,^[1] that operated from 1975 until it merged with AOM to form AOM French Airlines in 1992.Minerve began operations in 1975 using Sud Aviation Caravelle aircraft on charter flights from Paris-Le Bourget airport. Permission was granted for charter flights to the United States in 1983 and those were operated first with Douglas DC-8 jets and later on with a Boeing 747-200 wide body jetliner.In 1991 Minerve was operating scheduled passenger services between Paris and Bangkok, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Nice, San Francisco and Tahiti with DC-10-30 jets being primarily operated on the international routes.
• 藍鷹航空  Aigle Azur was a French airline based and headquartered at Paris Orly Airport. The airline operated scheduled flights from France to 21 destinations across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East,^[2] with a fleet of Airbus A320 family and A330 aircraft. The airline filed for bankruptcy and was placed in receivership on 2 September 2019. All flights were suspended on 6 September 2019. The airline is currently accepting take over bids from shareholders or competitor airlines.Aigle Azur was founded in 1946 by Sylvain Floirat, becoming the first post-war private company and began operating a few Junkers Ju 52s with an increased capacity of 32 passengers. Its founder also managed to secure special transport contracts with the authorities, such as contracts for overseas teachers during the school holidays, with its first destinations to Tunisia and Lebanon. Purchasing more modern equipment from American surplus allowed the company to extend its activities into Indochina and Algeria, where an important market was the repatriation of people back to France. On 1 May 1955, Sylvain Floirat transferred the entire fleet to the Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT), along with 54 of the company's crew members and its hotel staff.In 1970, the company was re-established as a regional airline under the name Lucas Aviation. Its registered office was at Pontoise airport. Lucas Aviation initially operated regional scheduled flights as Lucas Air Transport, including a year-round connecting service between Deauville and London Gatwick. The company name was later changed once again to Lucas Aigle Azur. In addition to this regular route, Aigle Azur provided business flights for politicians, businessmen, sporting figures and artists.

- aviation parts

• ATR (turbopop aircraft manufacturer)

aerospace

• eutelsat

• http://www.chinadailyasia.com/business/2016-12/23/content_15547117.html French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications SA plans to launch a satellite next year to serve the Asia-Pacific region, as demand for in-flight internet connectivity grows rapidly. The satellite, Eutelsat 172B, will be put into service in September, Rodolphe Belmer, CEO of Eutelsat, said on Wednesday.

• Safran S.A. is a French multinationalaircraft engine, rocket engine, aerospace-component, defense, and securitycompany. It was formed by a merger between the aircraft and rocket engine manufacturer and aerospace component manufacturer group SNECMA and the security company SAGEM in 2005. Its headquarters are located in Paris. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

automotive

• Groupe Renault (French: [ɡʁup ʁəno]) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured trucks, tractors, tanks, buses/coaches and autorail vehicles.

• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-04/renault-agrees-to-buy-49-stake-in-brilliance-china-subsidiary Renault SA agreed to acquire almost half of Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd.’s unprofitable minibus unit, giving the French carmaker a foothold in light commercial vehicles in the world’s largest auto market. The manufacturers will invest a combined 1.5 billion yuan ($221 million) in Shenyang Brilliance Jinbei Automobile Co. in proportion to their stakes, the companies said in a joint statement Wednesday. As part of the deal, Renault will pay 1 yuan to take a 49 percent stake in the subsidiary. Brilliance shares gained 3.2 percent to HK$14.30 at the close in Hong Kong, the biggest gain since May 31.

• Faurecia is the 8th largest international automotive parts manufacturer in the world; in 2013 it was #1 for vehicle interiors and emission control technology. One in four automobiles is equipped by Faurecia. It designs and manufactures seats, exhaust systems, interior systems (dashboards, centre consoles, door panels, acoustic modules) and decorative aspects of a vehicle (aluminium, wood).

• French automotive parts manufacturer Faurecia has announced its new joint-venture with Liuzhou Wuling Industry, named Faurecia Liuzhou Automotive Seating, to develop, manufacture and deliver automotive seating products to serve SGMW affiliated OEM brands and other customers. Located in Liuzhou, Guangzhou province, the joint venture will manufacture and sell complete seats, frames and other seat components initially to SGM Wuling from three existing plants and one additional plant to be built. http://www.aplf.com/en-US/leather-fashion-news-and-blog/news/36021/china-faurecia-sets-up-new-joint-venture-in-china

- Navya SAS, a French manufacturer of driverless electric and robotic vehicles, based in Villeurbanne near Lyon.

• 日本軟銀集團一輛從法國購入的無人駕駛巴士，上周五在東京丸之內商業區實地測試，無人駕駛巴士由法國公司Navya製造http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171224/00180_042.html

PR

• http://www.publicisgroupe.com/#/site/
• Sopexa 

• nternational Marketing Agency for Food, Wine and Lifestyle, has presence in hk

• Havas (French pronunciation: ​[avas]) is a French multinational advertising and public relations company, headquartered in Paris, France. It operates in more than 100 countries and is one of the largest global advertising and communications groups in the world. The company which today bears the name Havas is itself a former subsidiary of the original Havas which acquired the rights to the name in 2002. It is a holding company headquartered in Puteaux, Paris, and listed in the Euronext main market. Havas was the first French news agency, created in 1835 emerged in the age of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency comes from it. Havas was acquired by Vivendi in 1998, and renamed Vivendi Universal Publishing. VUP in turn merged with Lagardere to become Editis in 2004. French corporate raider Vincent Bolloré, through his holding company the Bolloré Group, is the main shareholder, controlling 32.84% of the share capital as of 7 May 2012.

- tv

• TV5 started on 2 January 1984 and was under the management of Serge Adda until his death in November 2004; the new director, named on 6 April 2005 is Jean-Jacques Aillagon, former French Minister for Culture and Communication. The present Director-General is Marie-Christine Saragosse. In January 1992 TV5 underwent a major overhaul including re-branding as "TV5MONDE" to stress its focus as a global network ("Monde" is French for "World"). Also part of the changes are a new schedule and new program line-up. Since 1993, "TV5 Monde" is part of the channel's corporate name. Its Canadian operations are branded "TV5 Québec Canada", however, though the shorter version TV5 is also used.

- music

• Vivendi

• Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis along with American Decca's first president Jack Kapp and later American Decca president Milton Rackmil; as a result of World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades. The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre. Both wings are now part of theUniversal Music Group, which is owned byVivendi, a media conglomerateheadquartered in Paris, France. The US Decca label was the foundation company which evolved into UMG.

- cinema

• 名為The Beverley、位於巴黎第二區的電影院，自一九六○年開業後屹立逾半世紀。戲院大多客人是常客，定期光顧近六十載，最高齡的客人更是達一百零一歲。七十四歲的現任東主拉羅什（Maurice Laroche）表示，於廿年前每周售出過一千五百張電影票，但今日早已風光不再。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171207/00180_045.html

 press/publishing

• http://www.lefigaro.fr/
• 
  
• http://gazette-international.com (art market)
• Éditions Grasset
• Éditions Gallimard
• Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers. 
  The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelle, France. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century.

- La Gazette (French pronunciation: ​[la ɡazɛt]), originally Gazette de France, was the first weekly magazine published in France. It was founded by Théophraste Renaudot and published its first edition on 30 May 1631. It progressively became the mouthpiece of one royalist faction, the Legitimists.^[1] With the rise of modern news media and specialized and localized newspapers throughout the country in the early 20th century, La Gazette was finally discontinued in 1915.

• La Gazette remained silent about the birth of the revolution, and didn't even mention the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, limiting itself to government acts. For the satisfaction of his customers, Charles-Joseph Panckouke published a supplement, Le Gazettin (little Gazette), that gave its readers summaries of debates at the National Constituent Assembly. In 1791, the ministry of foreign affairs, who owned La Gazette, took it back. Nicolas Fallet was named director and it became a tribune for the Girondists. He was succeeded by Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort. La Gazette became a daily magazine in 1792, 1 May. Following the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, 21 January, it was renamed Gazette nationale de France (National Gazette of France) . The tone of its articles remained both very prudent and impartial.

- france observateur - to kiv

market research

• Fondé en 1989, Gira Conseil est devenu en l'espace de 20 ans l'expert incontesté du marché de la Consommation Alimentaire Hors Domicile en France. http://www.giraconseil.com/

political consultant
- 法國電通諮詢公司（Odoxa-Dentsu Consulting）https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191117/00180_014.html

intelligence
- Founded in Paris in 2009, Kpler is an intelligence company providing transparency solutions in energy markets.

ict
- SoLocal Group S.A. provides digital local communication services for general public and professionals in Europe. The company operates through Internet and Print & Voice segments. It offers local search services, including display advertising, search engine optimization (SEO), rankings, content, and transactional tools. The company also markets digital marketing technologies, such as Websites and their contents, Web design turnkey solutions, and hosting and SEO; local programmatic advertising services that leverages local purchasing intentions data of Web users; and transactional tools of PagesJaunes Resto and PagesJaunes Doc. In addition, it offers printing services that include publishing, distribution, and sale of advertising space in the PagesJaunes and PagesBlanches print directories, telephone directory, and reverse directory. Further, the company is involved in voice and other activities, which comprise directory enquiry services through telephone and SMS, and QuiDonc reverse directory; and offers telemarketing, data mining, database generation, prospect processing, and traditional direct marketing services. Additionally, it offers online advertising, mapping, and mobile Internet services. The company was formerly known as PagesJaunes Groupe and changed its name to SoLocal Group S.A. in June 2013. The company was founded in 1896 and is based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22226394
- http://africainternetgroup.com/

hospitality

• accor, http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/1637534/accor-expands-china-it-seeks-exit-hotel-assets-asia-pacific
• Club Méditerranée SA, commonly known as Club Med, is a French public limited company specializing in the sale of all-in holidays at a number of "vacation villages" which it owns and operates in a number of (usually exotic) locations around the world. The Club was started in 1950 by Belgian entrepreneur Gérard Blitz. Blitz, a Belgian, had opened a low-priced summer colony of tents on the island of Majorca. Gilbert Trigano supplied the tents, and in 1953 Blitz wooed him into a partnership. In 1961, the company was purchased by the 35-year-old Baron Edmond de Rothschild, after he had visited a resort and enjoyed his stay.^[1][2] With Rothschild financing, the number of villages increased greatly under Trigano's leadership from 1963 to 1993. Originally attracting mainly singles and young couples, the Club later became primarily a destination for families, with the first Mini Club opening in 1967.The Club has also ceased to be a club in the legal sense, changing from a not-for-profit association to a for-profit public limited company (French SA) in 1995. However, each new customer is still charged a membership fee upon joining, and returning customers are charged an annual fee as well. (Edit from a Club Med regular; this is certainly not still the case in all instances, though for all I know it may still apply to some. Travelling from NZ to resorts in China and SE Asia I've never had to pay either a joining or annual fee).

- Groupe Barrière operates casinos in France, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The group also operates in the French luxury hotel industry and in the catering and leisure industries. François André started a casino business by acquiring the Ostend casino in Belgium, while Eugène Cornuché, his partner, began building the Hôtel Normandy and having the Deauville casino rebuilt in 1912. In 1918, François André set up the Haussmann gaming circle in Paris and continued to grow his business by designing the La Baule resort based on the Deauville model and by purchasing the Hôtel Royal and casino in 1923. He invented the modern day resort concept by combining casinos, luxury hotels and sports facilities all on one site.^{[citation needed]} In 1926, François André took on the construction of the Hôtel Hermitage at La Baule. 1927, he took over from Eugène Cornuché as managing director of SHCD (Société des Hôtels et Casino de Deauville). He then had the Hôtel du Golf in Deauville built.In 1951, Lucien Barrière, François André’s nephew, joined the group. In 1957 Lucien Barrière was appointed to the Board of several of the group’s entities and became his uncle’s sole legal heir in 1961. He undertook a project to modernise and develop the group by buying new establishments in Trouville, Dinard, St-Malo, Royan and Enghien-les-Bains. In 1980, SHCLB (Société Hôtelière de la Chaîne Lucien Barrière) was founded to cover the La Baule hotels and casinos. In 1987, Lucien Barrière participated in the arrival of slot machines in France.In the early 1990s, Accor became a major SHCLB shareholder. In 1990, Diane Barrière-Desseigne succeeded her father, Lucien Barrière, and launched major renovation projects. On top of their prestige, the hotels are closely connected to the film industry and the Arts. The elite figures of the film industry visit the Normandy Barrière and the Royal Barrière during the American Film Festival in Deauville. In 1995, Diane Barrière-Desseigne suffered a very serious plane accident and from 1997, her husband Dominique Desseigne co-managed the SHCD and SHCLB at her side. In 1998, SHCD bought Fouquet's restaurant and brand.

Shipbuilding
- Chantiers de l'Atlantique, is a French shipyard based in Saint-Nazaire, France. It is one of the world's largest shipyards, constructing a wide range of commercial, naval and passenger ships. The shipyard was owned by Alsthom from 1976 onwards, became Alsthom-Atlantique and was later part of Aker Yards when Aker Group acquired the Alstom Marine business in 2006.^[1][2] In 2008, the South Korean company STX Corporation acquired Aker Yards, and the shipyard became part of STX Europe (formed by the renaming of Aker Yards).^[3]. In 2017 the shipyard was partly acquired by Italian shipyard Fincantieri, after the bankruptcy of STX Corporation and was renamed again to Chantiers de l'Atlantique. Its location near Nantes, at the mouth of the Loire and the deep waters of the Atlantic makes sailing large ships in and out easier.

• Frigate Vendémiaire was the fifth of a series of 6 ships built in Saint-Nazaire shipyard in 1993 by « chantiers de l’Atlantique ». Her home port is Nouméa in New Caledonia. Her name refers to the month of grape harvest in the calendar of the eighteen century French revolution (22d of september to 21st of october). Frigate Vendémiaire is the second French vessel that has been called by this name after a submarine of the pluviose” series (1905).

• https://hongkong.consulfrance.org/French-frigate-Vendemiaire-s-port-call-in-Hong-Kong

• Marella Discovery is a former Royal Caribbean International Vision-class cruise ship now sailing for Marella Cruises. Prior to April 2016, she was operated by RCI as Splendour of the Seas. The second in the line of the Vision-class ships, she features a seven-story lobby, rock-climbing wall, and a 9-hole miniature golf course.   Following the announcement on the 9th of October 2017, that Thomson Cruiseswould be renamed Marella Cruises, TUI Group also announced that TUI Discovery would adopt the name Marella Discoveryat the end of October 2017, and also that she would become the first ship in the Thomson fleet to be based in Asia, home porting Malaysia in Autumn 2018, following the end of her UK debut season.

container shipping
- CMA CGM Group

• partner with HK company JF Hillebrand (wine logistics provider) (source: shippers today Nov/dec 2014 issue)
• http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/aced0822-9ca8-11e5-8ce1-f6219b685d74.htmlFrance's CMA CGM to pay $2.4bn for NOL in shipping deal
•  彭博引述知情人士稱，招商局集團為了擴充規模和業務的覆蓋地域，現正洽購法國達飛航運（CMA CGM）的港口資產，交易額或達數億美元，並有機會以旗下招商局港口(00144)來開展這宗交易。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20190903/00202_026.html

logistics
- Bansard International is a French company of third party logistics and freight forwarding. The company services Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America, offering multimodal transportation services via air, sea, road and railway.Founded by Jean-Pierre Bansard in 1963 as the Bansard International Transportation Group, the company began by offering road transportation services within Europe. Rungis serves as Bansard's European regional headquarters while Shanghai serves as its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters.

events

• http://www.tradeventsolutions.com/, provided services to HKTDC's event including think asia think hk in Paris in 2014, pavilion construction for texworld, HK international wine and spirits fair http://www.tradeventsolutions.fr/tradeevents/en/realisations.html, Denis Stevens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQfeOAqmvuE&list=TLQrUuBY_z5NY (think asia think hk event youtube video 3:45)

elderly care
- https://www.groupecolisee.com/en/

• partnered with china merchants to form china merchants-colisee senior care service, elderly homes in panyu and shekou

art gallery

• de Sarthe, agent for John Wesley, Keith Haring, 趙無極 Zhao Wu Ji 

antique
- Aristophil

• Gérard Lhéritier (born 21 June 1948) is a French manuscript dealer and expert in balloon mail. He is (or was) a sponsor of the National Library of France and around 2004 was the buyer of the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom. In 1990 he founded Aristophil but in March 2015, was arrested by French police in connection with an investigation into a suspected pyramid scheme fraud at the firm. In 2012, he won the largest ever EuroMillions jackpot awarded in France at €170 million. In 1990, Lhéritier founded the company Aristophil in Nice, to buy historical manuscripts, letters and other documents, and then to sell shares in those items to investors. In 2002, Lhéritier purchased 54 pages of correspondence between Albert Einstein and the Swiss mathematician Michele Besso for $559,500 at Christie’s New York.^[6] He divided these into 400 shares, which he sold to investors. His company, Aristophil, retained the right to buy back the shares at an higher price but did not commit itself to doing so. He was the buyer, in about 2004, of the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom. In 2004, Lhéritier established the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits at 8 Rue de Nesle in Paris, and it moved to 222 Boulevard Saint-Germain in 2010. It closed in 2015/16, and its contents have been impounded by the French authorities. In March 2015, Lhéritier was held in police custody in Paris, and released after posting bail of €2 million. He is under formal investigation for a suspected pyramid scheme fraud.

candle

• Cire trudon

- insurance

• offer insurance products for arts objects in exhibition, at premise, in tranist etc

- standard

• http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2016-10/13/content_27045786.htm Founded in 1828, Bureau Veritas advises clients so they produce high-quality goods to global standards, using its professional testing labs and inspection teams. The agency has grown rapidly since it entered the Chinese market in the late 1990s. It now has 110 offices on the Chinese mainland, 36 labs and 12 joint ventures with local governments－and employs some 12,000 employees in 55 cities, including 3,000 staffers working in Shanghai. Bureau Veritas said it offers services to 20,000 Chinese companies covering sectors including construction, consumer goods and government services.

 environment
-  Suez is a French-based utility company which operates largely in the water treatment and waste management sectors. Formerly an operating division of Suez, the company was spun out as a stand-alone entity as part of the merger to form GDF Suez (now Engie) on 22 July 2008. Engie remains the largest shareholder of the company with a 35% stake. On October 1, 2017 Suez bought the Water & Process Technologies unit from GE Power forming a new business unit called Water Technologies & Solutions. Suez shares are listed on the Euronext exchanges in Paris and Brussels. The company has its head office in La Défense - Paris.

• china

• suez subsidiary degremont enters the china market in 1975
• establishment of sino french water in 1992 
• 50-year chongqing water concession  started in 2002
• shanghai chemical industry park in 2002 to manage entire water cycle, largest hazardous waste incineration plant in asia and designed a new wetland; sledge drying project at suzhou industrial park; hazardous waste incineration facility in jiangsu

• launch of first hazardous waste project in shanghai in 2003 
• provided water supply services to changshu since 2006 through jv with local partner 
• chongqing tangjiatuo wastewater treatment plant since dec 2006 
• sludge incineration project at shenzhen shangyang environment park

• chongqing yuelai "sponge city" 
•  由蘇伊士和新創建(0659) 合資成立的蘇伊士新創建昨日宣佈，贏得 投資額約 3.5億元人民幣的東營市河口藍色 經濟產業園危廢處置項目，這是繼 9月份在 山東東營獲得工業污水處理項目後，蘇伊 士新創建在東營再下一城，提供全面的工 業服務。這個項目也成為蘇伊士新創建在 大中華地區的第九個危廢處理項目。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/11/07/b02-1107.pdf

• taiwan

• first waste to energy project in taiwan began operations in 2000, renwu incineration plant

• macao

• suez and nws holdings partnership in 1985 began with establishment of macao water, first water concession contract in asia
• automatic waste collection system 

• hk

•  suez subsidiary SITA waste services started waste business in hk in 1987
• pillar point sewage treatment plant 
• island west transfer station 
• organic waste treatment facility 

•  Northeast new territories landfill

• suez nws limited was established in 2017 to cover suez's business segments in mainland china, hk, macau and taiwan.

- Saur is a French company specialized in water management and leisure management. Saur was created in 1933 by Pierre Crussard as a water resource management company.^[2] Initially the company was exclusively a water facilities construction company, but beginning in 1934, it started water exploitation and distribution.En novembre 2017, endettée, dans l’obligation de refinancer sa dette pour 2019 et alors qu’en octobre 2018 prendra fin la clause de conservation des titres des actionnaires de la société, la direction de Saur demande à trois banques (Natixis, Morgan Stanley et BNP Paribas) de préparer l’évolution de sa structure financière et capitalistique15. En avril 2018, le groupe Saur annonce qu’il va vendre 70 % de ses actions et recherche de un ou de plusieurs « partenaires stables ». Plusieurs candidats se proposent dont surtout des fonds, dont Macquarie, KKR, Global Infrastructure Partners, Mirova, Ardian et Antin Infrastructures) ainsi que des industriels comme Mitsubishi, Remondis et Aqualia16,5.

En juillet 2018, le fonds suédois EQT détenu par la famille Wallenberg est choisi pour reprendre Saur, l'opération devant être finalisée avant la fin de l'année17.Fin novembre 2019, le Groupe Saur décide d'investir sur la technologie en rachetant 51 % du capital du Britannique Riventa Ltd, une start-up spécialiste de l'innovation en matière de gestion d'eau18. Il s'agit de capteurs ou d'algorithmes qui permettent un suivi en temps réel du rendement des pompes au sein des usines de production d'eau potable19. Grâce à ces innovations, Saur pourrait atteindre de bien meilleurs rendements grâce à une baisse importante de la consommation d'énergie de la production20.