List of 2,471 Acquired Companies in France

Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	M&A Activity			Last 5 Years
Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	Total	Buy	Sell	Last 5 Years
Havas SA Acquired Vivendi 2017-06-06 Puteaux, France website	Marketing	2,565	42	41	1
Alcatel-Lucent S.A. Acquired Nokia 2016-01-04 $16.6B Boulogne-Billancourt, France website	Technology Hardware	15,946	25	21	4
Gemalto NV Acquired Thales 2018-12-17 Meudon, France website	Information Technology	3,346	19	18	1
Webhelp S.A. Acquired Groupe Bruxelles Lambert 2019-07-10 Paris, France website	Business Services	-	16	16	-
Altran Technologies SA Acquired Capgemini 2019-06-24 $3.6B Neuilly-sur-Seine, France website	Information Technology	2,192	17	16	1
Zodiac Aerospace Acquired Safran 2018-10-19 Plaisir, France website	Aerospace	4,932	15	15	-
Suez Acquired Veolia Energy 2022-01-27 $14.6497B Paris, France website	Utilities	19,393	16	13	3
Naturex SA Acquired Givaudan 2018-03-26 Avignon, France website	Food	456	11	11	-
Demos Group Acquired Weidong Cloud Education Co., Ltd. 2016-01-29 Paris, France website	Education	117	11	10	1
Norbert Dentressangle SA Acquired XPO 2015-04-29 $3.56B Lyon, France website	Transportation	5,262	8	8	-
ESI Group Acquired Keysight Technologies 2023-06-28 $1.02886B Rungis, France website	Software	151	9	8	1
Business Objects S.A Acquired SAP 2008-01-29 $6.78B Levallois-perret, France	Software	-	7	7	-
Technip Group SA Acquired TechnipFMC 2016-05-19 $6.2B Paris, France website	Engineering	11,650	9	7	2
Ausy SA Acquired Randstad 2017-01-25 Sevres, France website	Information Technology	444	6	6	-
Alliance Industrie SA (Alliance Automotive Group) Acquired Genuine Parts 2017-09-25 $2B Paris, France website	Automotive	1,700	6	6	-
Webedia SAS Acquired Jellyfish, Inc. 2021-02-23 Paris, France website	Internet Software and Services	-	6	6	-

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