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 automotive and rail (20%), trade/services/media/public sector (18.4%), aeronautics and space (13.6%), banking/finance/insurance (10.4%), energy (8.8%), life sciences (8.7%), telecoms (5.6%), defense/security/maritime (5.5%), industries (5.4%) and electronics (4.2%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (31.1%), North America (14.8%), Germany (8.7%), Spain (8.6%), Asia/Pacific (8.4 %), the United Kingdom (7%), Italy (6.6%), Benelux (5.2%), Scandinavia (4.9%), Eastern Europe (2.3%), Switzerland (1.7%) and other (0.7%).