Category

Result

Year

Total Population
Urban Population Ratio
Population Paris

64.9 Million
79.5%
2.27 Million

2016
2015
2016

Total Number of Households

29.1 Million

2015

Disposable Income Per Capita

27,801

2015

Savings as percent of
Disposable Income

15%

2015

Household Financial Wealth

Per Capita
Unemployment Rate
Children Per Woman

53,851
10%
2.01

2015
2016
2015

Company

Industry

Total S.A.
Power, Electricity, & Gas
AXA
Financial Services
Carrefour
Retail
lectricit de France S.APower,
(EDF) Electricity, & Gas
Engie - GDF Suez

Market Cap (billion

USD)
110
54.2
20.41
22.8

Power, Electricity, & Gas

32.9

Eads Airbus Group NV Aerospace and Defense

48.7

Auchan Holdings - Simply Market Retail

PSA Peugeot Citron
Renault

Automotive
Automotive

Casino Guichard Perrachon

Retail
BNP Paribas
Financial Services
Orange
Telecommunications

COMPAGNIE DE SAINT GOBAINManufacture

*privately held, but

holds 11% of market
share
12.63
27
7.1
59.2
45.8

25

Construction and Civil

Engineering
Pharmaceuticals
Consumer Goods

43.4
105.3
73.7

E.Leclerc
Christian Dior

Retail
Consumer Goods

*privately held, but

holds 20% of market
share
30

Bouygues

Construction, Telecom,
Media

11.3

Vinci
Sanof
Louis Vuitton

SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE
L'Oreal
Air France-KLM

Manufacture
Consumer Goods

38.1
102.9

Aerospace and Defense

2.3

Veolia
SNCF MOBILITES
Michelin
Danone

Water & Sewage Utilities

Railroads
Automotive
Consumer Goods

12.84

Faurecia

Automotive

5.7

Sodexo

Food Services

16.2

Safran
Credite Agricole SA

Aerospace and Defense

Financial Services

29.1
26.3

L'Air Liquide

Industrial Chemical
Manufacture

37.4

SFR - Numericable

Telecommunications

13.89

Illiad S.A.

Telecommunications

12.86

Areva

Power, Electricity, & Gas

1.72

Le Bon Coin - Schibsted

Internet Technology

57.5

Blablacar

Internet Technology

1.6

19.1
41.3

Revenues 2015
(billion USD)

Services

143.4
111.8
98
82.7

Petroleum and Nuclear Power

Insurance and Asset Management
Hypermarkets
Worlds Largest Electricity Producer

79.3

Power, Natural Gas, and Energy Services

73.2

Commercial Aeronautics, Space and Defense

Products and Systems

61.5

Hypermarket, Supermarket, and

Convenience Stores

59.7
51.5

Automobile Manufacturer
Automobile Manufacturer

50.4
48.7
45.7

Hypermarkets
Retail and Corporate Banking
Mobile and Internet provider

43.4

Manufacture and Distribution of Products for

Construction, Transportation, Industrial, Food
Storage, and Solar Energy

43.1
42.1
40.5

Building, Civil Engineering, and Maintenance

Contractor
*
Prescription Pharmaceuticals
Luxury Fashion Brand

40.4
39.8

Hypermarkets
Luxury Fashion Brand

35.5

Development Contracting (Roadwork and

Buildings) and Telecom (Bouygues Telecom
and Television)

29.1
28.7
28.4

Auto/water treatment automation, electrical

networks, and utilities management systems *
Cosmetic and beauty products
Commercial Airline

27.27
25
24.1
24

Drinking water, waste water, energy, and

passenger transportation
State owned railway; public transport
Auto and Truck Parts
Dairy and Nutrition Food Products

22.9

Leather Interiors and Exhaust Systems

(Subsidiary of Peugeot)

22.2

International Food Services and Facilities

Management

21.5
19.5

Aircraft/Rocket/Space engines, Navigation

Systems, Drones, Optometrics, and Biometric
Identifcation
Banking Group

18.1

The World's Largest Industrial Gas Supplier

( argon, carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen,
nitrogen, and oxygen)

14.3

Cable Television and Telecom

Fixed and Mobile Telephone Services, Prepaid

Phone Cards, and ISP

4.8

Nuclear Power and Renewable Energies

1.9

P2P Used Goods Marketplace

*estimated to be 12 m
USD

Ride Sharing Application

Orange

Numericable - SFR

2015 Revenue
(billion USD)
Customers
(millions)
Net Proft Margin
Year Founded

45.7
190 Mobile/ 16
Broadband
6.6%
1991

14.3
21.9 Mobile/ 6
Broadband

12 Month Revenue
Growth

2.5%

45.8%

2013

Technologies /
Capabilities

GSM-900/1800
GSM-900/1800
(GPRS,EDGE).
(GPRS,EDGE).
900/2100MHzUMTS,HS 900/2100MHzUMTS,HS
PA,HSPA+,DC-HSPA+. PA,HSPA+,DC-HSPA+.
800/2600MHzLTE,LTE-A 800/2600MHzLTE,LTE-A

Offerings

TV, Internet, Voice, Fiber Majority of Cable and

Optics,
Fiber Optic Market,
Landlines/Mobile,
Mobile, Broadband,
Accessories, Data
Fixed Lines, Audiovisual
Analytics
Services, and Cable

Additional Assets

Smart Store experience

oriented store on
Champs Elysees
Neuf Cegetel (MVNO subsidiary)

FrNet2 (telecom
Datavenue: Data analytics SaaSsubsidiary)
designed to analyze data from IoT
LoRa (long range)
network in 17 French
urban areas

Primary operator for

several African
countries

*** Disclaimer: Orange

has made an offer to
buy Bouygues's assets
and market share for 10
billion euros. Orange
will then have to divide
the assets between SFR
and Illiad in order to
comply with Frances
anti-monopoly laws. The
deal has not yet been
signed

Bouygues

Free Mobile - Illiad

35.5
11.9 Mobile/ 2.8
Broadband
4.7%
1994

5
25 Million
7.6%
1987

-2.2%

10.3%

GSM-900/1800
900/2100MHzUMTS,HS
(GPRS,EDGE).
PA,HSPA+(Roaming on
900/2100MHzUMTS,HS Orange 2G/3G when
PA,HSPA+,DC-HSPA+.
needed).
800/1800/2600MHzLTE, 1800/2600MHzLTE,LTELTE-A
A

MOBILE, FIXED, TV,

INTERNET AND CLOUD
SERVICES

TF1 (France's top

television channel)

Metro France
Publications

Fixed and Mobile

Service

Freebox TV (Modem and Digital Television)

Network of 30+
FreeCenters throughout
france (brick and mortar
stores)

550 Club Bouygues

Telecom stores
throughout France

Created Bbox Miami which is a TV Box running under the Android Ecosystem (combo of TV and Mobile

Company Name

Industry

Sodexo

Food Services

Louis Vuitton

Luxury Fashion

Carrefour

Retailer

Orange

Telecom

Vinci

Construction

Electricite De France
(EDF)

Power and Utilities

Schneider Electric

Power and Utilities

LOreal

Beauty Products

Auchan

Retailer

Sanof

Pharmaceuticals

Description
Multinational food service provider for primary
schools, secondary schools, universities, and
workplaces around the world. Present on 34,000
sites in more than 80 countries. Sodexo employees
over 420,000 employees.
A high end luxury fashion brand that has very
recently shown interest in employing digitalization
within their brand. They are looking for a way to
collect data in order to better understand their
consumer (info here).

The worlds 4th largest retailer after Wal-Mart, Tesco

and Costco. They have hypermarkets in over 30
countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and
Africa. They are also one of the top retail outlets in
Brazil.

Frances largest telecommunications company with a

range of services across Europe, the Middle East, and
Africa. Has a signifcant investment in both the IoT
and the connected home via both their data
analytics tool Datavenue and their own IoT
accelerator.

The largest civil engineering and construction

company in the world by revenue. Vinci focuses a
segment of their business on the R&D of ecologically
designed and sustainable cities. They are interested
in creating technologies that promote the urban
development of green energies, reduce our
ecological impact, and optimize our cities for a
growing population. They sponsor two of their
innovation accelerator programs aimed at solving
these problems (La Fabrique de la Cite and the Vinci
Innovation Awards).

The worlds largest electricity producer in the world

and the frst European nation to produce renewable
energy. EDF currently produces 98% of its electricity
with zero carbon emissions. EDF has developed a
series of technologies like the Smartflower (smart
solar power generator), concentrated sunshine
power plants, solar powered electric charging
stations for automobiles, and a smart electricity
consumption system.

Company focused on energy management and

automation within the four business segments:
Building, IT, Industry, and Infrastructure. Schneider
places a large emphasis on efficient energy use and
decarbonization. Schneider recently partnered with
EnergySage to help consumers optimize their
purchase of solar energy via their connected home
portal. In addition to their green energy endeavors
they also design and manufacture automation and
control systems. We already producer Invertors for
Schneider

The largest cosmetic producer in the world. Their

product line includes cosmetics for hair color, skin
care, sun protection, perfume, and make-up. In
addition to their work with traditional beauty
products, they are also the top nanotechnology
patent holder in the US and have done extensive
work with tissue engineering. In 2015 several articles
were written on how LOreal is investigating
integrating smart technology into their products to
track how their users use their cosmetics.

A French international retail chain with presence in

more than 15 countries. Auchan has made an effort
to optimize its supply chain through in depth
analytics and data management. They are also in a
partnership with the IoT company Hiku to create a
magnetic automated shopping list that syncs to your
phone. In addition, they also have their own brand
of electrical appliances that they sell within their
hypermarkets called Selecline (cheaper home
generics) and Qilive (more technologically
advanced).

The ffth largest prescription drug manufacturer in

the world, Sanof is located on the Euro Stoxx top 50.
The company covers seven major therapeutic areas:
cardiovascular, central nervous system, diabetes,
internal medicine, oncology, thrombosis and
vaccines. In addition to their traditional work with
pharmaceuticals, Sanofs subsidiary Merial has
recently announced a partnership with Georgia Tech
to create a form of connected technology to
administer telemedicine between veterinarians and
animals

Possible Areas For Collaboration

Additional Links

Automation technologies, POS, or logistics

monitoring

Integrated chargers, Induction chargers,

wearables, and smart fabrics

Hackathon

Smart energy metering, POS, refrigeration, and

Electronic Shelf Labels (France has the largest
implementation of ESLs in the world due to
environmental regulation and high penalties for
displaying wrong cost information)

Connected home technologies, sketch to scale

production for their accelerator, and traditional
CEC and EMS.
Datavenue

Smart energy monitoring, environmental

assessment products (ex: Edyn), solar energy
technologies (NEXTracker) or sketch to scale
production for their accelerator
La Fabrique de la Cite

Solar energy technologies (both panels and

NEXTracker), energy storage, smart energy
metering, and typical EMS

Smartflower

Automated production lines (Valve), energy

monitoring and management (connected home
portals), energy storage, robotics, and solar
EnergySage

Smart fabrics, connected products, 3-D printing,

or asset tracking

Regionalized work in Brazil, POS systems,

typical EMS, additional sketch to scale products
like Hiku, and supply chain management
(Vantage Point Analytics).
Hiku

biomedical products like auto injectors,

aersolizers/nebulizers, insulin delivery systems,
and our blood glucose meters as well as
connected telemedicine technologies
Telemedicine Partnership

Additional Links

IoT accelerator

Vinci Innovation Awards

Concentrated sunshine power plants

Qilive