Sogea - 1999 annual report - Vinci
Sogea - 1999 annual report - Vinci
Sogea - 1999 annual report - Vinci
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Comprehensive expertise<br />
provided locally<br />
<strong>Sogea</strong> operates primarily in four<br />
main business sectors: building, civil<br />
engineering, hydraulic engineering<br />
and services. In <strong>1999</strong>, with markets<br />
generally picking up and volumes<br />
recovering after the strong drop<br />
of previous years, <strong>Sogea</strong> posted net<br />
sales of 1,959 million euros, including<br />
609 million euros in Norwest Holst<br />
net sales.<br />
With 15,000 employees, <strong>Sogea</strong> is<br />
made up of multidisciplinary<br />
regional Departments which are<br />
structured as a particularly dense<br />
network of specialized, autonomous<br />
and decentralized agencies and<br />
subsidiaries. The company’s<br />
locations are first and foremost in<br />
mainland France, the French West<br />
Indies, the Indian Ocean, Africa,<br />
the Benelux countries and the<br />
United Kingdom.<br />
In mainland France, <strong>Sogea</strong> has a<br />
network of over 100 profit centres<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Serge Michel<br />
Honorary Chairman<br />
and Director<br />
Xavier Huillard<br />
Chairman of the Board<br />
located geographically close to their<br />
customers, and is one of the leading<br />
French construction companies and<br />
the third largest car park operator in<br />
France.<br />
With their operations going back<br />
more than half a century in the<br />
French West Indies and 35 years in<br />
the Indian Ocean, <strong>Sogea</strong> and its<br />
subsidiaries are among the leading<br />
building and civil engineering<br />
companies in the French overseas<br />
departments and territories.<br />
In Africa, where they have been<br />
operating for 70 years, <strong>Sogea</strong> and its<br />
subsidiary Satom have 26 agencies<br />
and are the leading building and civil<br />
engineering companies in western<br />
and central Africa.<br />
In Europe <strong>Sogea</strong> is more particularly<br />
represented in the Benelux countries<br />
by Denys and in the United Kingdom<br />
by Norwest Holst, one of the major<br />
construction companies in that country.<br />
Directors<br />
Gérard Billaud<br />
Michel Cambournac<br />
Bernard Huvelin<br />
Jean Malassigné<br />
Roger Martin<br />
Gérard Mohr<br />
Pierre Parisot<br />
Antoine Zacharias<br />
PROFILE<br />
Executive Committee<br />
Xavier Huillard<br />
Chairman and Chief Executive<br />
Officer<br />
Pierre-Michel Chaudru<br />
Deputy General Manager,<br />
Île-de-France<br />
Jean Rossi<br />
Deputy General Manager,<br />
French Regions<br />
Philippe Ratynski<br />
Deputy General Manager,<br />
International<br />
Finally, <strong>Sogea</strong> is present, on a caseby-case<br />
basis, in other geographic<br />
areas in its traditional hydraulic<br />
engineering business.<br />
<strong>Sogea</strong> is both a local company,<br />
thanks to its locations<br />
geographically close to its customers,<br />
and a global company thanks to its<br />
cohesion and size; it can therefore<br />
provide all its customers with<br />
high-level expertise in a partnership<br />
relationship which is further<br />
strengthened by <strong>Sogea</strong>’s mastery<br />
of the main stages of construction<br />
projects, from design to construction,<br />
financing and maintenance.<br />
John Stanion<br />
Chairman and Chief Executive<br />
Norwest Holst Group PLC<br />
Pierre Billon<br />
Financial Director<br />
Jérôme Benet<br />
Legal Director<br />
Hervé Meller<br />
Human Resources Director<br />
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