VINCI Stock

Vinci SA operates as a construction and concession company in France and internationally. The company finances, designs, builds, and operates infrastructure that improves everyone’s life, including transport infrastructure, public and private buildings, car parks, urban development projects, and communication and energy networks.

Segments

The company’s segments include Concessions, Energy, Roads, and Construction.

Concessions

The Concessions segment finances, designs, builds, and operates transport infrastructure and public facilities under public-private partnership (PPP) contracts. It is the operator of transport infrastructure concessions (motorways, tunnels, bridges, car parks, airports, and rail links) and the private operator of motorway concessions in Europe.

Energy

The Energy segment offers energy and information technology services (design, installation, and maintenance). In its activity sectors (infrastructure, industry, service sector, and telecommunications), it develops solutions that are both local and global and are provided by 800 business units operating as a network. It meets various needs of its customers, including power generation and distribution companies, transport and telecommunications operators, manufacturing industries, local authorities, and service companies by integrating these technologies in customized, high service content offerings.

The company provides services in four business lines: infrastructure: power supply networks (power transmission, transformation and distribution), urban lighting and urban development, transport infrastructure (power supply, lighting and information systems); industry: power distribution, monitoring and control, mechanical engineering, air treatment, fire protection, insulation, industrial maintenance; service sector: power supply networks, climate engineering, plumbing, fire detection and protection, building automation systems, security, multi-technical, and multi-service maintenance; and telecommunications: infrastructure and voice-data-image company communications.

Roads

The Roads segment builds, refurbishes, and maintains transport infrastructure (roads, motorways, railways, and airports), carries out urban, industrial, and retail development projects in Europe. It also produces road works materials. It also holds significant positions in the United States (North Carolina and Florida) and Canada.

Transport Infrastructure and Urban Development: The company builds road, motorway, railway, airport, and light rail infrastructure, as well as industrial and retail development sites. It also offers knowledge in related works: quality urban development projects (enhancement of public, recreational, and sports facilities), traffic signs and roadmarking, quality of life, and environmental protection (noise barriers and storage sites).

Industrial Production: The company operates a network of 303 quarries producing 59 million tonnes of aggregate (Eurovia share) per year, 46 binder plants, 381 coating plants, 130 recycling facilities (recycling 8.8 million tonnes of construction waste and household waste bottom ash), and 15 factories producing road equipment.

Maintenance and Services: The company ensures overall maintenance of road, motorway and rail networks, and urban transport infrastructure (network management, routine maintenance, winter maintenance, and emergency response). It also provides upstream project design and co-ordination, consultancy, and technical support services.

Construction

The Construction segment brings together a range of capabilities in building, civil engineering, hydraulic engineering, and related services. It also plays a key role in the world market for major engineering structures and specialized civil engineering, dredging, and oil and gas infrastructure projects.

The company's construction’s business is divided into three major complementary components: a network of local subsidiaries in mainland France with VINCI Construction France, which has a network of 370 profit centers, and outside mainland France with VINCI Construction UK in the United Kingdom, CFE (in which it holds a 46.8% interest) in the Benelux countries and VINCI Construction Filiales Internationales in Germany, Central Europe, Overseas France, and Africa; specialized business lines with high technical content: specialized civil engineering technologies with Soletanche Freyssinet (structures, special foundations, soil technologies, and nuclear engineering), dredging and marine engineering works with DEME (in which CFE holds a 50% interest); and oil and gas infrastructure with Entrepose Contracting; and management of complex projects with VINCI Construction Grands Projets, which operates in the world market for major civil engineering and building structures.

Acquisitions

In September 2008, the company acquired the shares in Vossloh Infrastructure Services from its German parent company Vossloh AG. Vossloh Infrastructure Services is specialized in railway civil engineering and has been renamed ETF – Eurovia Travaux Ferroviaires. It also acquired Taylor Woodrow Construction.

Dispositions

In 2008, the company has sold its shareholding in the Hungarian company Hidepito.

History

Vinci SA was founded in 1899.