ALTEN

Alten is European's No. 1 high-technology consulting and engineering group. The group's services are supplied to technical departments and IT system departments at large industrial, telecom, and utility companies. The activity is organized into 3 areas:

- technology engineering and consulting services: studies, design, and execution of research and development projects for new products/systems, consulting services, project management assistance, etc.;

- development of network architectures: design of terminals and network equipment, deployment and operation of networks;

- development of information systems: implementation or redesign of information systems and development of specific applications.

Net sales break down by market into finance and tertiary (24%), automotive (16.2%), aeronautics and space (11.6%), energy (10.8%), life sciences (9.5%), multimedia (7 %), telecommunications (5.9%), defense and security (5%), rail and naval (4.4%) and other (5.9%).

Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (35.3%), North America (12.7%), Germany (9%), Spain (7.4%), Italy (6.8%), Asia Pacific (6%), Scandinavia (5 .9%), Benelux (5.8%), United Kingdom (4.8%), Switzerland (2.2%), Eastern Europe (2.1%), and others (2%).