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2019 Annual Report © RFR Blaise © Bernard Designing solutions for a positive life Passion & Solutions © Image SCAU © ATELIER RITZ ARCHITECTE Artelia, an international multidisciplinary and independent group Engineering Building construction Consultancy - Audits Multi-site programmes % private-sector clients Project management Industry 68 EPC - Turnkey projects Water TURNOVER* Editorial 2 Maritime Increase in turnover 5900 The Group Environment vs 2018: +24% €681m total workforce Our CSR commitments and objectives for 2025 4 Energy In the building, Artelia’s 10th anniversary, 100 years of experience 6 *Combined 2019 turnover of New arrivals in the group 8 Transport Backlog of orders: Artelia & MOE infrastructure and Supporting our clients around the world 10 Urban development Implementing solutions that generate value for our clients 12 industry sectors 18 months’ turnover 2019 challenges 100% Resilience to climate change 14 CAPITAL HELD BY Energy transition 18 MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES Resource efficiency 24 Digital transformation 28 Industrial competitiveness 32 36% international turnover: Multimodal mobility 38 Urban renewal 44 Safety and security 54 70% Sustained, balanced and responsible growth Europe (exc. France) 10% A presence in more than 40 countries % CSR, a pillar of our growth strategy 60 2 Asia Governance 62 Americas Ethics, a driver of performance and long-term growth 64 12% 6% Combining independence and value sharing 66 Africa Middle East 55 branch offices in France Developing our human capital 68 Protecting our environment 80 A commitment to civic and humanitarian causes 86 Indicators 94 2019 Artelia Annual Report 1 Creating solutions for a positive life Thus reads the corporate purpose that we have just These developments are also reflecting positively Independence and entrepreneurial drive, enshrined in our Articles of Association. The last few on our financial situation. Thanks to the integration months have shown precisely how important this of MOE in December 2019 and Artelia’s intrinsic is. The pandemic has revealed weaknesses in our performance, we generated a cumulative turnover the hallmarks of Artelia’s identity societies and changed our ways of life, speeding up the of €681m in 2019, representing an increase of 24%, transformation of our business lines in the process. and our operating income rose by 47% to €33m. With Resilience, safety, industrial competitiveness, digital its workforce of 5900 engineers and technicians It was with great enthusiasm that I accepted the of the pillars of the Group’s CSR policy, thereby transformation, new forms of mobility, smart cities operating in 40 countries, the Group has reached a proposal to become Chairman of Artelia’s Board demonstrating the importance we believe it and buildings… in all these fields, more than ever major new milestone in its growth and now performs of Directors on 1 October 2019, thereby taking deserves. In aiming to reduce its own carbon before, the onus is on us to propose solutions that nearly 40% of its business outside France. This also over from the group’s founders and co-presidents footprint by 50% compared with 2020, Artelia are innovative, realistic, bold and tangible, in order strengthens its resilience, which is taking on its full Alain Béntejac and Jacques Gaillard. I would like is also reaffirming - if ever that was needed - to help us and all our fellow world citizens to live a meaning in the unprecedented circumstances in to take this opportunity to pay a special tribute its long-standing environmental commitment positive life. which we find ourselves in early 2020. to them and their outstanding contributions to and determination to rise to the huge challenge Artelia’s exemplary growth. Since first becoming of climate change. More than ever, the Group is In 2019 this objective was pursued in very concrete a board member in 2010, I have witnessed also positioning itself as an advisor and partner More than ever before, the onus is on us ways through the signature of more than 6500 Artelia’s specific qualities, its professionalism, its for its clients who are seeking to improve their new contracts. Helping Madagascar become less to propose solutions that are innovative, values and the passion demonstrated on a daily environmental performance. vulnerable to climate change. Making a commitment basis by its workforce in order to deliver efficient, realistic, bold and tangible to reduce energy consumption in the French harmonious and sustainable solutions. A great deal of thought was department of Essonne. Bolstering the expansion Even though many countries found themselves in of renewable energy in the United Arab Emirates. lockdown during the first half of 2020, we were able These attributes were mobilised extensively in devoted to the company’s values Contributing to the Angers smart city project. Handing to continue performing our assignments on behalf 2019, a year in which key development milestones over more than 100 km of completed bus lanes, of our clients by switching to teleworking on a large were reached. A new share transmission process and corporate purpose metro lines and tram tracks. Continuing to digitise our scale and harnessing our teams’ outstanding ability was completed, thereby consolidating Artelia’s business lines, notably thanks to the recent arrival of to adapt. I would like to thank them all most sincerely equity model. Artelia’s capital is now held entirely The arrival of Danish engineering firm MOE in the start-up Open Ocean in our Group. 2019 was a year of for their unstinting commitment and their profound by its executives and employees, underpinning Group constitutes the last major development of intense activity, and this is borne out by the selection sense of responsibility. the Group’s independence and entrepreneurial 2019. It enables Artelia to widen its geographical of projects presented in this report. drive. Alongside this operation the Group was reach and break into the top 15 European This crisis gives us even more compelling and reorganised into nine business units and its engineering firms. 2019 was also a year in which our development convincing reasons to propose new digital services, governance was substantially overhauled to around the world accelerated sharply. The Group in relation to smart cities in particular, and to make include more women and members from outside All of these points demonstrate the strength moved into new growth markets - Australia and pandemic risk management an integral part of the Group. These are key assets for a group that and vitality of the company, which is currently Portugal - and continued to thrive in several other our building and infrastructure designs. These aims to develop its international business and mobilising all its resources to face the health countries including Thailand and Ivory Coast. But the unprecedented times also underscore the importance maintain its internal shareholding scheme. crisis and looking to the future with confidence, as major highlight of 2019 was the arrival within Artelia of joining the tremendous momentum generated by it contributes to designing the world of tomorrow. of MOE, a leading engineering firm in Denmark that Europe’s New Green Deal, which aims to shape a In addition, throughout 2019 a great deal of also has operations in Norway and the Philippines. future blending development and sustainability for thinking was devoted to the company’s values and With its workforce of 900, turnover of €100m, multi- our continent. A future which will have great need corporate purpose, a process closely linked to the disciplinary activity and capital entirely owned by its for the talents and creativity of engineering firms. We renewal of its CSR objectives for 2025. Alongside employees, just like Artelia, MOE will undoubtedly are confident about the future, and ready to take up independence, sharing the value created by the form a new pillar for the Group and bring new these new challenges. Because our very purpose is Group with the entire workforce now forms one momentum to our expansion in Northern Europe. to create solutions for a positive life. Claude Imauven Benoît Clocheret CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER 2019 Artelia Annual Report 3 DEVELOP OUR HUMAN CAPITAL Our OUR TARGETS commitments COMBINE INDEPENDENCE OUR COMMITMENTS • Achieve a workplace accident frequency rate of less than 3 • Guarantee working conditions that protect the safety and well-being of our employees. • Increase the proportion of female project managers to 30% AND VALUE SHARING OUR TARGETS • Promote diversity and multiculturalism in all their forms within the Group. and targets • Enable 100% of our employees to access skills development OUR COMMITMENTS • Increase the proportion of employee • Support our employees by providing skills development opportunities. opportunities each year • Encourage dialogue within the company and involve staff and management representatives in for 2025 • Guarantee that control of the company remains in the hands of its shareholders to with • Obtain 90% favourable opinions during mandatory consultation 50% 50% corporate decision-making. management, promote employee shareholding on a broad level and aged under 40 procedures encourage regular renewal in this regard, in order to uphold our independence. • Share at least 50% of the Group’s • Share the value created by the Group with all its employees (through operating income with the workforce individual and collective bonuses). 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