List of companies of France
This is a list of notable companies based in France. For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in France".
A-B
- Accor
- Airbus Group
- Airtag
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Ales Groupe
- Alstom
- Altran
- Anovo
- Areva
- Arianespace
- Arkane Studios
- Astrium
- AT Internet
- Atisreal
- Atos
- Auchan
- AXA
- Babolat
- Baccarat
- BIC
- BNP Paribas
- Bolloré
- Bouygues
- Brittany Ferries
- Bugatti Automobiles - headquarters located in France but now owned by Volkswagen in Germany
- Bull
- Buzzinbees
C-D
- Canal+
- Capgemini
- Carrefour
- Cartier S.A.
- Casino Guichard-Perrachon
- Celio
- Chanel
- Chantelle
- Christian Dior
- Citroën
- CMA CGM
- Crédit Agricole
- Criteo
- Crédit Foncier de France
- Danone
- Dassault Group
- DCNS
- Decathlon
- Dexia (Franco-Belgian)
- Diptyque
E-K
- Éditions Philippe Amaury
- Eisenberg Paris
- Électricité de France (EDF)
- Essilor
- Eurotunnel
- Eutelsat
- Fnac
- Galeries Lafayette
- Gameloft
- Gandi
L-Q
- La Poste
- Laboratoires Pierre Fabre
- Lacoste
- Lactalis
- Lafarge
- Lafuma
- Lagardère Group
- LOOK
- L'Oréal
- 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
- Official Board
- Orange S.A.
- Parrot SA
- Pathé
- Pentalog
- Pernod Ricard
- PPR
- PSA Peugeot Citroën - with brands:
- Publicis
- Quantic Dream
R-S
- RATP Group
- Renault
- Rexel
- Rhodia
- Safran
- Saint-Gobain
- Salomon Group
- Sanofi - merger of Sanofi-Synthélabo and Aventis in 2004
- Schneider Electric
T-Z
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
- SNECMA Moteurs
- Synthélabo - pharmaceutical company, merged with Sanofi
- 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