Key figures
Today the Group is truly international with more than two thirds of its employees based outside France and a revenue equally distributed between France and the rest of the world.
It has many operations all around the world
Revenue of €10.9 billion for 2007.
Providing drinking water and wastewater treatment services to more than 131 million people over all five continents.
Breakdown of turnover by geographical area (excluding third-party revenue):
France |
Rest of Europe |
Asia |
Africa, Middle East and India |
Americas |
45,1% |
29,9% |
9,4% |
9,3% |
6,3% |
Human resources located over all five continents
The introduction of a local structure for the Group can be seen by the deployment of teams who work as close as possible with customers.
Breakdown of employees
Total number of employees : |
82 867 | |
France |
29 725 | |
|
Europe excluding France |
26 220 |
|
Africa and Middle East |
7 726 |
Asia |
12 645 | |
North America |
3 626 | |
Latin America |
2 925 | |
including Technological solutions and construction of water treatment equipment, systems and facilities |
15 990 | |
Research & Development
Research & Development at Veolia Water, now integrated with R&D at Veolia Environnement, world leader for environmental services, benefits from a global network of 600 high-level experts including 350 research staff.
Thanks to its past experience in finding solutions for treating drinking water and wastewater, Veolia water is currently the world leader in publishing research works on water and has a portfolio of more than 3,000 patents.
Research Center, Maisons-Laffitte, France
