A new company, which has been created between Veolia Environnement, french group of services to the environment, and the french DCNS, Europe's leading naval defense sector.
This new entity will manage the core business of military sites.
Under this operation, Veolia Environnement will hold 51% and 49% of DCNS this company called "Defense Environment Services.
According to estimates of the two groups, the new entity should be completed within five to ten years 150 million euros in sales and employ 1,000 people.
The main customer of this company will be the french Ministry of Defense for its bases the navy, army and air. The new company will also offer its services to ports civilians, purveyor sites.
Its services will include the maintenance of buildings and industrial installations, cleaning, disposal of waste.
The creation of Defense Environmental Services responded to the growing demand for management support services of the State, such as maintenance and operation of infrastructure of military bases, under the General Review of Public Policy (RGPP). In any case, what the communiqué.
At the moment, Defense Environmental Services already has about thirty employees. The company has received two contracts on the sites of Lorient and Indret.
She responded to three calls for tender in the amount of one to three million annually, for one Navy, one Air Force and the last Army.
His competitors for the three tenders are services group Suez Environnement, the french Sodexo (catering and business services) and Cegelec - Electrical engineering group owned by the sovereign fund of Qatar.
The idea is not fundamentally new, since September 2008, an officer of DCNS announced in Le Figaro that the military shipbuilder french studying the creation of a joint venture with Veolia in services under the strategy of diversifying its business.
"By ten years, (...) we want to increase the weight of the French military command in our business by 75% to 50%," explained Bernard had Planches, Deputy CEO of DCNS. For this, the shipbuilder wishes to develop internationally and in other activities such as nuclear or services.

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