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AFTAM  is an association for housing assistance and support, social inclusion and medical assistance.

AIRBUS  is an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of EADS, a European aerospace company. Based in Blagnac, France, near Toulouse, and with significant operations across Europe, the company produces around half of the world's jet airliners.

Air France (formally Société Air France), is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France, (near Paris) and is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance.

Air Liquide is a major French company supplying industrial gases and services to various industries, including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, it is the leader in its field worldwide, operating in over 75 countries.

AXA is a French global insurance group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. AXA is a conglomerate of independently-run businesses, operated according to the laws and regulations of many different countries. The AXA group of companies deal in life, health and other forms of insurance, as well as investment management.

La Banque Postale, is a French bank created on January 1, 2006, as a subsidiary of La Poste, the national postal service.

Barclays is a global financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. As of 2010, it is the world's 10th-largest banking and financial services group and 21st-largest company according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine.

Beauté Prestige International, based in Paris, France, produces perfumes under the Jean-Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake and Narciso Rodriguez labels.

BNP Paribas is the largest global banking group in the world, headquartered in Paris with its second global headquarters in London.

Bouygues Construction has been involved in many major projects including the Parc des Princes completed in 1972, the Musée d'Orsay completed in 1986; the Channel Tunnel completed in 1994; and the Bibliothèque nationale de France completed in 1995.

Bouygues Immobilier (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bouygues) : residential, corporate, commercial and hotel real estate, urban development and property development.

Editis is the second-largest publishing group in France, created in January 2004 by the pooling of approximately 60% of Vivendi's publishing assets, the other part having been sold to the Lagardère Group.

Bred Banque Populaire is a French group of cooperative banks. It is controlled by 18 regional banks, the CASDEN Banque Populaire and the Crédit Coopératif.

CNASEA a public, French organization, was under the aegis of the Ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries, Employment and Social Affairs. CNASEA merged with the Central Payment Agency on April 1 2009.

COFRAC, a French non-profit organization, was founded in Paris in 1994 and is designed to accredit state or private agencies in France.

DCNS is a company working in the field of naval armament. It designs and builds warships, combat systems, port facilities and the maintenance of naval forces in operational conditions.

Dexia is a Belgo-French financial institution, also referred to as the Dexia Group, active in public finance, retail and commercial banking services for individuals and SMEs, asset management, financial markets and insurance.

EDF is headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. With €66.34 billion in revenue in 2009, EDF operates a diverse portfolio of 120,000+ megawatts of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle-East and Africa.

EMI Groupe is a British music company. It is the third-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the "big four" record companies and a member of the RIAA. EMI Group also has a major publishing arm - EMI Music Publishing - based in New York City.

Europ Assistance is 100% owned by the Generali Group.

Generali, currently Italy's largest insurer and the third-largest insurer in Europe, is one of the largest European groups found worldwide, with 118 insurance companies operating in 70 countries on 5 continents, totaling nearly 54 million customers.

GDF Suez is a Belgo-French energy company operating in the fields of electricity generation and distribution, natural gas and renewable energy. The world's largest utility since taking control of Britain's International Power, the company was initially formed by the merger of Gaz de France and Suez on July 22, 2008.

Hachette Filipacchi Médias is a subsidiary of French group Lagardère specializing in media.

IRP Auto handles welfare insurance for people working in the automobile industry.

Groupama is a general insurance and banking group, and the largest mutual insurance company in France.

Ipsen is a French pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France. It primarily develops and markets medications used in oncology, endocrinology and the treatment of neuromuscular disorders.

Janssen Cilag a Belgian pharmaceutical company is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, based in Beerse in the province of Antwerp.

La Poste is the mail service of France, which also provides postal services for the French Overseas Departments of Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana and the territorial collectivities of Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte. It is headquartered in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

Servier is the leading independent French pharmaceutical group and the second-largest French pharmaceutical group worldwide.

Ministère de l'Emploi is responsible for labor relationships with social partners and social themes, including general social action policies, national solidarity (families, disabled, elderly), and, policies related to the promotion of employment and the health care system.

Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created on November 17, 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire (Banque Populaire Group) and IXIS (Groupe Caisse d'Epargne).

Novartis is a Swiss pharmaceutical group that was created in 1996 by merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Orange is a subsidiary and trademark of France Telecom for mobile operations and Internet.

Pôle emploi is a public administrative establishment (EPA) in charge of employment in France. It was created December 19, 2008, as a result of the merger of ANPE and the unemployment benefits commission.

PSA Peugeot-Citroën is a French private automaker, owned by the Peugeot family, which controls the car manufacturers Peugeot and Citroën.

RATP covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the central part of the greater Paris area. It is a dense network of complementary transit rail networks, organized and funded by the Syndicat des transports d'Ile-de-France (STIF).

Sanofi Aventis is a French pharmaceutical group that was created in 2004 following the acquisition by the French group Sanofi-Synthélabo.

SFR is a French telecommunications operator. It was created by the Compagnie générale des eaux in 1987.

Siemens AG is a German engineering conglomerate that is the largest in Europe. Siemens has its international headquarters located in Berlin, Munich and Erlangen, Germany. The company has three main business sectors: industry, energy and healthcare with a total of 15 divisions.

SNCF is one of the largest transportation and logistics group in Europe.

Stallergenes is a European biopharmaceutical company which manufactures immunotherapy medicines for the prevention and treatment of allergic respiratory diseases such as rhinoconjunctivitis and allergic asthma.

Système U is a French retailers' cooperative, comprising about eight hundred independent hypermarkets and supermarkets, headquartered in the Parc Tertiaire SILIC in Rungis, France.

Thales Alenia Space is the company born after the Thales Group bought Alcatel's interest in the two joint-ventures between Alcatel and Finmeccanica, and between Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio.

Vente Privée is a private shopping club (vente-privee.com) and on-line retailer. The company was developed in an online environment to host sales of designer brands at reduced prices for members.