List of French companies - Definition and Overview

This is a list of companies from France. See lists of companies for lists of companies from other countries.

• Accor
• AGF
• Air France
• Air Liquide
• Alcatel
• Alstom
• AOM
• Atari
• Axa
• BIC (see Société BIC)
• BNP Paribas
• Boursorama
• Bouygues
• Bugatti registered office located in France but now owned by a German company
• Calyon
• Canal+
• Cap Gemini
• Carrefour
• Casino Guichard
• Christian Dior SA
• Crédit Agricole
• Crédit Lyonnais
• Cyfac
• Danone
• Dassault Aviation
• Dassault Group
• Dexia
• EADS
• Électricité de France (EDF)
• France Telecom
• Galeries Lafayette
• Hachette Filipacchi Media
• La Poste
• Lafarge
• Lagardère Group
• LOOK
• L'Oréal
• LVMH
• Matra
• Mavic
• Mephisto Chaussure
• Michelin
• Orange
• Pernod Ricard
• Petzl [1] (http://www.petzl.com)
• Peugeot
• Pinault-Printemps-Redoute
• PSA Group (owner of Peugeot and Citroën brands)
• RATP
• Renault
• Rhodia
• SAGEM
• Saint-Gobain
• Sanofi-Aventis - merger of Sanofi-Synthélabo and Aventis in 2004
• Schneider Electric
• Société BIC
• Société Générale
• Sodexho
• SNCF
• STMicroelectronics
• Suez
• TF1
• Thales Group - renamed from Thomson-CSF in 2000
• Thomson - renamed from Thomson Multimedia in 2002, and marketed as RCA and General Electric Electronics in the USA
• Total
• Veolia Environnement
• Vinci
• Vivendi Universal

Former companies

Companies that merged with another one and were renamed or companies which have disappeared:

• Elf Aquitaine - now part of Total
• Vivendi - now part of Vivendi Universal

See also

• CAC 40 stock market index
• Euronext stock exchange