oh hey there you're watching this video because you've just joined egis congratulations you've done the right thing but before we go any further let's hear from lauram EG's CEO thanks Charles first of all let me wish you a very warm welcome to egis as you already know egis is a French company that has become a leading player in architecture Consulting construction engineering and Mobility Services her job is to build infrastructure but also buildings and operate them and whatever the project we're dealing with we always keep three goals in mind improve people's quality of life help
communities develop both socially and economically and reduce carbon emissions at scale given the Net Zero targets for 2050 so that's basically egis in a nutshell over to you Charles thanks Lauren so let's start with the basics the name egis comes from the Greek root egis referring to the shield carried by the Greek god tus we chose it for this notion of being a guide being protective and also to gather all of our historical entities over the course of 70 years EG has a accumulated dozens of companies to expand its areas of expertise our signature is
an E in script to illustrate the humanity in our approach and the E is placed in a perfect circle that reflects the idea of responsibility and the notion of a global Service offer our customers are always at the center of our expertise okay are you ready for an avalanch of figures let's go this is the number of employees around the world this is our turnover this is the breakdown of our business and this is our net profit is that okay did you get all that now let's give you the key facts about the company we
have three business lines Transportation Consulting and operations and energy and sustainable cities we are organized into four regions France Europe and Africa middle east and south Asia and Americas and Pacific so yeah pretty much everywhere in the world and you might be wondering who actually owns EG well there's STI Capital who helps us grow there's also the French which is a long-term investor and finally partner Executives and employees but egis isn't just about Figures it's also about values EG is a people first responsible and creative company people first because we develop the skills of our
people and we cultivate differences responsible because we build sustainability and ethics into all of our projects and we involve our clients in our approach and actually we've also decided not to work on any projects that have to do with fossil fuel extraction or that might have a negative impact on biodiversity and finally creative because well it's in our DNA we are inventors above all else and I expect you'll want to take a look at a few of our most ambitious projects well here they come I'll catch up with you afterwards [Music] not bad right in
French we say and we are not the only ones to seeing these projects are brilliant in fact we win tons of awards every year and we got to say we are proud to win them isn't that right d yes Charles that's true we are starting to win quite a lot of awards but there's more to it than that our main goal with you who have just joined us is to break into the world's top 10 construction engineering groups by 2026 so are you ready for the EG Adventure