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This list displays all 24 French companies in the Fortune Global 500, which ranks the world's largest companies by annual revenue. The figures below are given in millions of US dollars and are for the fiscal year 2023. [1] Also listed are the headquarters location, net profit, number of employees worldwide and industry sector of each company.
Location of France. France is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.A member of the Group of 7 (formerly G8) leading industrialised countries, as of 2014, it is ranked as the world's ninth-largest and the EU's second-largest economy by purchasing power parity. [1]
Canal+ SA, formerly Groupe Canal+, is a French media and telecommunications conglomerate based in Paris.It runs its own subscription TV channels in France, distributes third-party channels and services, and is a major source of finance for domestic film production, participating in the financing of the vast majority of films produced in France.
Free Mobile, a subsidiary of Iliad, was launched in 2012. As of December 2013, it was France's fourth largest mobile operator, having gained a 12% share of the market. [2] On August 1, 2014, Iliad SA publicly announced a bid to acquire a 56% stake in the United States wireless carrier T-Mobile US for US$16 billion.
The company was founded by Louis Lesaffre, the co-founder of Bonduelle, in the mid-19th century. [1] [2] One of its subsidiaries, Bio Springer, [3] was founded by Baron Max de Springer in 1872 in Maisons-Alfort. [4] In 2004, it formed a North American joint-venture with Archer Daniels Midland, known as Red Star Yeast. [5]
Publicis Groupe is a French multinational advertising and public relations company. One of the oldest and largest (by revenue) marketing and communications companies in the world, it is headquartered in Paris. After 1945, the little-known Paris-based advertising agency grew rapidly, becoming the world's fourth-largest agency. [when?
Mediawan S.A. is a French media conglomerate and audiovisual international production and distribution group. [4] It was founded on December 15, 2015, by Xavier Niel, Matthieu Pigasse and Pierre-Antoine Capton under the legal form of a special-purpose acquisition company ("SPAC") with the purpose to acquire assets and operations in the media production and distribution business in Europe.
The company went on to acquire Autoroutes du Sud de la France (the Southern Freeways Company) in 2006, [9] and Bachy-Soletanche, the world's second-largest geotechnical specialist contractor (after Bauer) in February 2007. [10] It also bought the UK operations of Taylor Woodrow Construction for £74m in September 2008. [11] [12]