Suez SA (formerly Suez Environnement ) is a French -based utility company which operates largely in the water and waste management sectors. The company has its head office in La Défense, Paris . In 2015, all the group's brands became SUEZ.
17-498: Formerly an operating division of Suez , the company was spun out as a stand-alone entity as part of the merger to form GDF Suez (now Engie ) on 22 July 2008. Engie remained the largest shareholder of the company with a 35% stake. On the stock market, Suez Environnement's share jumped 40% in value on its first day. In April 2014, Suez Environnement signed 3 major water treatment contracts in India worth 61 million euros. In July 2015,
34-836: A meeting of the Territorial Union of Trade Unions in Senegal and Mauritania, held in Dakar November 11–November 12, 1955, the majority of delegates voted for separation from the French CGT. A conference was held in Saint-Louis on January 14–January 15, 1956 which formed the Confédération générale des travailleurs africains (CGTA), separating the parts of the West African CGT organizations from
51-592: A new business unit called Suez Water Technologies & Solutions. Suez shares are listed on the Euronext exchanges in Paris and Brussels . On 14 May 2019 Bertrand Camus was appointed as chief executive officer of Suez. On 1 February 2022 SUEZ began a new chapter in its history with its acquisition by the Consortium of shareholders and the appointment of a new CEO, Sabrina Soussan. As of 1 August Sabrina Soussan
68-584: The Fédération nationale des syndicats (National Federation of Trade Unions). Auguste Keufer was amongst the founders and became the first treasurer. At the end of Henri Krasucki 's term (1982–1992), he began to distance himself from the French Communist Party (PCF). His successor, Louis Viannet , did the same, going as far as resigning from the political bureau of the party. CGT Secretary General Phillipe Martinez announced that
85-466: The 8th arrondissement of Paris , with operations primarily in water , electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management . Suez was the result of a 1997 merger between the Compagnie de Suez and Lyonnaise des Eaux [ fr ] , a leading French water company. In the early 2000s Suez also owned some media and telecommunications assets, but later divested them. According to
102-475: The Masons Water Yearbook 2004/5, Suez served 117.4 million people around the world. The company conducted a merger of equals with fellow utility company Gaz de France on 22 July 2008 to form GDF Suez (called Engie since 2015). The water and waste assets of Suez were spun off into a separate publicly traded company, Suez Environnement . Suez was (and remains, through GDF Suez) one of
119-492: The 2008 election), and second largest in terms of membership numbers. Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995–96 (it had more than doubled when François Mitterrand was elected president in 1981), before increasing today to between 700,000 and 720,000 members, slightly fewer than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT). According to the historian M. Dreyfus,
136-688: The Muslim regions in comparison to its main rival CFTC, who depended on the presence of Catholic communities for its recruitment. CGT emerged as the major trade union force amongst the 100 000 strong organized labour force in Senegal and Mauritania after the Second World War. Within the CGT branches in the region, there was however a growing wish for independence. A leader of CGT in French West Africa, Bassirou Guèye, promoted this idea. At
153-546: The absorption of Suez by Gaz de France. The French state holds more than 35% of shares of the merged company, GDF Suez. As a consequence of the conditions posed by the European Commission with regards to allowing the merger, on 29 May 2008 Suez sold its Belgian gas supplier Distrigas to the Italian company Eni for €2.7 billion. On 22 July 2008 the group GDF Suez , a company of €74 billion of annual turnover,
170-501: The direction of the CGT is slowly evolving, since the 1990s, during which it cut all organic links with the French Communist Party (PCF), in favour of a more moderate stance. The CGT is concentrating its attention, in particular since the 1995 general strikes , to trade-unionism in the private sector. The CGT was founded in 1895 in Limoges from the merger of the Fédération des bourses du travail (Federation of Labour Councils) and
187-545: The group Suez Environnement simplified its name to become Suez, after the group GDF-Suez changed its name to Engie , leaving the name Suez available again. In September 2015, Suez acquired Sembcorp's 40% stake in the companies' common joint-venture to provide water treatment and waste management in Australia. On 1 October 2017 Suez bought the Water & Process Technologies unit from GE Power for 3.4 billion dollars and formed
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#1732780450133204-599: The oldest continuously existing multinational corporations in the world, with one line of corporate history dating back to the 1822 founding of the Algemeene Nederlandsche Maatschappij ter begunstiging van de volksvlijt (literally: General Dutch Company for the favouring of industry) by King William I of the Netherlands (see Société Générale de Belgique ). Its form prior to the GDF merger
221-581: The union will support the week of climate action beginning on September 20, 2019. In 1937 CGT began organizing workers in French West Africa . The union's functioning was interrupted by its banning by the Vichy regime, but in 1943-1948 a process of reconstruction took place. The main centers of activity were Senegal , Ivory Coast , Togo and the French Soudan . CGT had an upper hand in
238-400: The world's largest liquefied natural gas company. The revenue of GDF was around 22.4 billion euros in 2005, compared to 41.5 billion for Suez. The CGT trade-union called the merger a "disguised privatization." On 3 September 2007, Gaz de France and Suez announced agreed terms of merger. The deal was conducted on the basis of an exchange of 21 Gaz de France shares for 22 Suez shares via
255-412: Was appointed chairman and CEO of SUEZ. Financial results in millions of euros: Key figures for the group in 2022: As of 30 March 2023 the executive committee is made up of: Breakdown of share capital as of 11 January 2023. Suez (company, 1997%E2%80%932008) Suez S.A. , known from 1997 to 2001 as Suez-Lyonnaise des eaux , was a leading French multinational corporation headquartered in
272-429: Was officially created. Conf%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration G%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale du Travail The General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération Générale du Travail , CGT ) is a national trade union center , founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges . It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions . It is the largest in terms of votes (32.1% at the 2002 professional election, 34.0% in
289-477: Was the result of nearly two centuries of reorganisation and corporate mergers. Its most recent name comes from the involvement of one of its several founding entities – the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez – in building the Suez Canal in the mid-19th century. On February 25, 2006, French Prime minister Dominique de Villepin announced the merger of Suez and Gaz de France , which would make
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