Bouygues Civil Works is active in 6 different sectors of the construction industry and employs around 4 000 people around the world. With an ever increasing turnover over the last ten years, culminating in a figure of 749 million euros at the end of 2004, Bouygues Civil Works has at any one time 15 construction sites of over 150 million euros each in progress thus illustrating its capacity in managing large scale projects.
As a subsidiary of Bouygues and operating all over Western France, Quille is the leading Building and Civil Works Company in Normandy. It employs 1 500 people and annually has 150 work sites generating a turnover of 300 million euros. Having substantial technical know-how, Quille had the responsibility of a major part of the A28 construction works.
DTP Earthworks is one of the leading French companies in its area of expertise. It employs 3 000 people with a turnover of 316 million euros in 2004. Its large reserves of construction site plant & equipment contributed to the A28 excavation works being completed with such short lead times.
Created in November 2005, the FIDEPPP, Public Private Partnership Development Investment Funds, is an instrument of the "Caisse d'Epargne" Banking Group, used for investment in all kinds of partnerships of a certain size in situations where private company finance, build and operate public infrastructure.
The "Caisse d'Epargne" Banking Group, a financial institution well known for local development in France, created this special fund, amounting to 20 million Euros, to help the State and local authorities finance their large scale infrastructure programmes. The FIDEPPP is the first French fund set up to this end.
The FIDEPPP is managed by Natixis Environment & Infrastructures. This fully owned subsidiary of Natixis - the investment bank of the "Caisse d'Epargne" Group and the "Banque Populaire" Group - is responsible for identifying, evaluating and selecting the projects on which it will provide funds.
The Egis group, subsidiary of the French public and investment organization, the Caisse des Dépots, is an international specialist of the engineering, financing, operation and maintenance of major infrastructure projects (e.g. roads, motorways, airports, public transport, etc.). It employs 3 500 people and has an annual turnover of 367 million euros. Egis participates in the A28 project through its subsidiaries Scetauroute (design and engineering), which carries out the project management of 80% of the national motorway network, and Transroute International who participate in the operation and the maintenance of the motorway. Transroute already manages around 600 kilometres of motorways throughout the world.
The Paris - Normandy Motorway Company (SAPN), subsidiary of the SANEF Group, is a semi-public company, concession holder for the running of motorways in Ile-de-France (Paris and surrounding areas) and Normandy.
SAPN operates a 370 km network including the A13 (Paris / Caen), A14 (La Défense / Orgeval) and A29 (St Quentin / Le Havre).
SAPN employs 800 people and in 2004 had a turnover of 247 million euros. SAPN participates, in partnership with Transroute, subsidiary of Egis, in the operation of the Rouen - Alençon section of the A 28 Motorway.
With 22 million clients and assets of more than 440 billion pounds sterling, HBOS is the most important mortgages and savings accounts holders in Great Britain as well as being a major player in the High Street banking sector for current accounts and credit cards. With approximately 2.5 million shareholders, HBOS has the largest private shareholding in the UK. Its earnings before taxes amounted to 4.6 billion pounds sterling in 2004. Uberior Infrastructure Investments Ltd is a leader in Europe for financing infrastructure projects. As a subsidiary of Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking, it has already financed 33 projects in this domain, for a total commitment of 100 million GBP. Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking and Uberior are subsidiaries of HBOS plc, a company created after the merger of Bank of Scotland and Halifax plc. It employs 60 000 people, has net banking income of 4 600 million pounds sterling in 2004 and is one of the major players in the banking sector in Great Britain.
Thanks to its staff of 3 500, the SANEF Group has developed expertise in two main areas; the concession and operation of motorways, and three associated areas; road telematics, telecommunications and promotion of service areas.
Ranked N°4 in the motorway operating sector in Europe, the SANEF group operates and maintains a network of 1 743 km of motorways in the North & East of France and in Normandy.
Following a European call for tenders, Alis, a newcomer to the French motorway landscape, was attributed in 2000 the concession of the A28 Rouen-Alençon motorway for a period of 62 years as of 27th October 2005, date of the opening of the motorway.
Backed by serious and financially sound shareholders, the company can count on the skills, experience and resources of reputable groups, among the best specialists in the world within each of their respective domains.
The complementarities of this specialist experience and skills covering different fields has allowed Alis to successfully deal with each phase of the project (finance, design, construction) in the best possible conditions, and to achieve a first in France: the opening of a single 125 km stretch of motorway in one go.
What is a concession holder?
A concession holder is a legal entity delegated by the State, by the means of a concession contract, to have the responsibility of the finance, design, construction, operation and maintenance of a public infrastructure for a predetermined length of time.
On the date of expiry of the contract, ownership of and responsibility for the infrastructure reverts to the State. The advantage of the system, employed in many countries, is to have rapid growth in major public infrastructure projects whilst avoiding that the cost of the project is singly borne by the State budget.
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