Created by Francis Bouygues in 1952, Bouygues is a diversified industrial group with a strong corporate culture. Its businesses focus on two sectors: construction, with Bouygues Construction (building, civil works, energy and services), Bouygues Immobilier (property) and Colas (roads), and telecoms/media, with TF1 and Bouygues Telecom.
Bouygues in brief:
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| | - Subsidiaries: Bouygues Construction, Bouygues Immobilier, Colas, TF1, Bouygues Telecom
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| | - Stake: At 30 June 2011, Bouygues owned 30.74% of Alstom
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| | - Headcount at 31 December 2010: 133,456 employees.
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| | - Sales: €31.2 billion in 2010, of which €9.7 billion on international markets
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| | - Net profit attributable to the Group: €1.1 billion in 2010
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| | - Listing: Paris Stock Exchange, Euronext Paris (Compartment A), CAC 40 index
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| | - Market capitalisation: €11.8 billion at 31 December 2010
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| | - Geographical scope: Bouygues has operations in more than 80 countries
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Key dates in the Group's history
1970s: First listing on the Paris Stock Exchange (1970), break into the civil works market (Parc des Princes stadium, 1972), creation of Bouygues Offshore (oil and gas contracting, 1974) and Maison Bouygues (catalogue homes, 1978).
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 1980s: In 1984, the Group acquired Saur, France’s third largest water company. In 1986, Bouygues became the world's leading construction firm when it acquired France's largest roadworks group (Colas, Screg and Sacer). In 1987, Bouygues became the operator of newly-privatised TF1, France's leading television channel. |
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1990s: The Group continued its development on international construction markets and in the media sector and launched Bouygues Telecom in 1994.
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2000s: The Group refocused on two sectors: construction and telecoms/media. Bouygues Offshore was sold to Saipem in 2002 and Saur to PAI Partners in November 2004. In July 2000, the Group launched an exchange offer for its subsidiary Colas, of which it now owns 96.5%. In September 2007, it increased its stake in Bouygues Telecom from 34% in 1996 to 89.5%.
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In April 2006, Bouygues acquired the French government’s 21% stake in Alstom, with which it concluded a cooperation agreement. The Group thus expanded into new high-growth business lines: rail transport, power generation and since June 2010, power transmission. The operational activities of Alstom are organised in four sectors since July 2011: Thermal Power, Renewable Power, Transport, Grid. At 30 June 2011, Bouygues owned 30.74% of Alstom.
The Group's subsidiaries
Bouygues Construction is a global player in the building, civil works, energy and services markets. The company generates nearly half its sales outside France. Among the many projects recently handed over or ongoing there are the Surrey Hospital in Canada, Pusan port in South Korea, the Gautrain rapid rail link in South Africa, the new Tangiers container port in Morocco, the New Tyne Crossing in Newcastle (UK), the Singapore Sports Hub, the world’s largest sports infrastructure private-public partnership and the French Ministry of Defence Balard project.
Bouygues Immobilier, a benchmark player in sustainable communities, has embarked on an ambitious sustainable development policy and is carrying out France’s first large-scale positive-energy building, Green Office® in Meudon, outside Paris. Other Green Office® projects are being developed in Nanterre and Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris. Since 2010, Bouygues Immobilier has been seeking BBC-effinergie low-energy certification for all its new residential developments, anticipating applicable thermal regulations by two and a half years.
Operating in some 40 countries world-wide, Colas, the world's leading roadbuilder, is an integrated group that has branched out of its road construction and maintenance business into complementary activities (safety, roadmarking, signalling, services and concessions, etc.).
France’s leading general-interest television channel with a 24.5% audience share1 at end-December 2010, TF1 is also an integrated communications group developing activities in growth markets around its core business.
Bouygues Telecom, which rejected the first round of conditions for the award of UMTS licences in France in 2001, now covers 87% of the French population with its 3G+ network. The company acquired its own fixed network in July 2008 and became an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in October 2008, launching the Bbox broadband router. In 2009, Bouygues Telecom invented the groundbreaking “all-in-one” solution with ideo, the first quadruple play offer in the market. In 2010, it launched Bbox fibre, its very-high-speed offer, and began investing in fibre-to-the-home in high-density areas. Bouygues Telecom has more than 11,000,000 mobile customers and 1,023,000 fixed broadband customers.
1Individuals aged 4 and over
(Updated: August 2011)
