List of companies of France

This is a list of notable companies from France.

A-B

Anovo Ales Groupe Alstom Altran Areva Arianespace Arkane Studios Astrium AT Internet Atisreal Atos Auchan AXA Baccarat

BIC Babolat BNP Paribas BNP Paribas Hong Kong Bolloré Bouygues Bouygues Télécom Brittany Ferries Bugatti registered office located in France but now owned by Volkswagen in Germany. Bull Buzzinbees

C-D

Canal+ Capgemini Sogeti Carrefour Cartier S.A. Citroën Casino Guichard-Perrachon Chantelle Christian Dior CMA CGM Crédit Agricole Calyon CLSA Crédit Lyonnais

Crédit Foncier de France Danone Dassault Group Dassault Aviation Dassault Systèmes DCNS Decathlon Dexia (Franco-Belgian) Diptyque

E-K

Éditions Philippe Amaury Amaury Sport Organisation Électricité de France (EDF) Essilor Eurotunnel France Télécom Orange Galeries Lafayette Gameloft Gandi

Gaumont Havas Hermès Hutchinson SA Iliad Free JCDecaux Jean-Paul Gaultier Keolis

L-Q

Laboratoires Pierre Fabre Lacoste Lactalis La Poste Lafarge Lafuma Oxbow Lagardère Group Hachette Hachette Filipacchi Médias Hachette Livre LOOK L'Oréal Lancôme LVMH - luxury goods group, owners principally of Louis Vuitton, Moët et Chandon, and Hennessy

Mandriva MC2 France Michelin Montagut MoonScoop Group Nicolas NicOx Norauto NYCO Parrot SA Pathé Pentalog Pernod Ricard PPR PSA Peugeot Citroën, with brands: Citroën Peugeot Publicis Quantic Dream

R-S

RATP Group Renault Rexel Rhodia Safran Snecma Saint-Gobain Salomon Group Mavic Sanofi - merger of Sanofi-Synthélabo and Aventis in 2004

Schneider Electric SFR SNCF SNCM Société Générale Sodexo Sopra Group Suez

T-Z

Technicolor SA Technip TF1 Group Thales Group Theam Total

Ubisoft Venturi Automobiles Veolia Environnement Vinci Vivendi Yoplait

Former companies

Companies that merged and were renamed or companies that have disappeared:

Aéropostale Aérospatiale-Matra Aventis - merged to become Sanofi-Aventis Banque de l'Indochine - now part of Crédit Agricole Company of One Hundred Associates Crédit Commercial de France, now HSBC SA part of HSBC Holdings plc Elf Aquitaine - now part of Total Genset - now part of Serono Index+ now part of MC2 France Infogrames Entertainment, SA Le Zèbre Matra, now part of Lagardere

Matra Marconi Space, now EADS Astrium Microïds, now part of MC2 France Rhône-Poulenc - Chemical and Pharmaceutical company, merged with Hoechst AG to form Aventis. SAGEM - Merged with SNECMA to become SAFRAN Sanofi - Pharmaceutical company, merged with Synthélabo. Sanofi-Synthélabo - Pharmaceutical company, merged with Aventis. Synthélabo - Pharmaceutical company, merged with Sanofi. SNECMA Moteurs Thomson-CSF, now part of Thales Vivendi - split into the present Vivendi (formerly Vivendi Universal) and Veolia Environnement Wanadoo Edition, now part of MC2 France Waterman, now part of American company Newell Rubbermaid

See also

• Indices of French companies
  • CAC 40
  • CAC Next 20
  • CAC Mid 60
  • CAC Small
  • CAC IT 20
  • SBF 250
  • SBF 120
• Euronext - The major French stock market

External links

• Companies