Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational corporation that specializes in energy management and automation solutions, spanning hardware, software, and services. Native of France, the company is headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison and is also based at the World Trade Center of Grenoble with offices throughout the world. A Fortune Global 500 company, Schneider Electric is publicly traded on the Euronext Exchange and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. In FY2015 the company posted revenues of EUR26.6 billion.
Schneider Electric is the parent company of Square D, Pelco, APC and others. As of 2016, the company has 20,000 patents either active or in application worldwide; the company has over 160,000 employees in approximately 100 countries worldwide.
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Head office
Schneider Electric has had its head office in the Trianon site in Rueil-Malmaison, France since 2000. The current headquarters, also located in Rueil Malmaison and known as the Hive, previously housed Schneider subsidiary Télémécanique, while the parent company occupied a site in Boulogne-Billancourt.
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History
The roots of this company are in the iron, steel, and armaments factories of Schneider-Creusot and other industrial concerns. In 2014 Schneider Electric advertised a cooperation with German power supplier RWE. From its 19th century beginnings in steel through its 20th and 21st century moves in electricity and energy management, Schneider Electric has grown into a global leader in energy management and automation through ongoing innovation and acquisition.
1836-1980: A Family Business Becomes a Major Player
1836: Brothers Adolphe and Joseph-Eugene Schneider take over an abandoned foundry in Le Creusot, France and, two years later, create Schneider & Cie, focusing primarily on the steel industry. Schneider & Cie grows rapidly, specializing in the production of heavy machinery and transportation equipment, and eventually becomes the Schneider Group, a diversified conglomerate.
1975: The Schneider Group acquires an interest in Merlin Gerin, one of the top manufacturers of electrical distribution equipment in France.
1981-2001: The Schneider Group Re-focuses on the Electricity Sector
1981-1997: Schneider Group re-focuses on the electrical industry by divesting its nonstrategic assets and undertakes a series of strategic acquisitions: Télémécanique in 1988, Square D in 1991 and Merlin Gerin in 1992.
1999: Schneider Group acquires Lexel, one of Europe's largest suppliers of installation systems and control solutions. In May 1999, the Schneider Group is renamed Schneider Electric to clearly identify its expertise in, and focus on, the electrical field.
Since 2002: A Strategic Transformation
At the turn of the 2000s, Schneider Electric adopts a three-pronged strategy to drive growth, diversify risk and promote longevity:
- Ensure a more balanced exposure to its strategic end markets;
- Enhance its legacy portfolio (electricity distribution, automation, and industrial control) with adjacent and synergistic businesses; and
- Anticipate the future energy requirements of companies and individuals.
This strategy led Schneider Electric to conduct a number of strategic acquisitions both in mature countries and in new economies, targeting companies offering complementary products and solutions.
Acquisitions
Energy Demand
Schneider Electric has built its business to enable energy users to address three global megatrends driving energy demand:
- Urbanization: 2.5 billion people are expected to live in cities by 2050.
- Digitization: 50 billion internet-connected devices are expected to be in operation by 2020.
- Industrialization: Industrial growth is expected to increase energy demand by 50% by 2050.
Each of these trends is converging to make meeting the world's energy demands more challenging and urgent. In the next 40 years, energy consumption is expected to increase by 50%. At the same time, greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in order to keep the global temperature from rising under 2 °C, as mandated by COP21. This is the energy dilemma that the world needs to solve.
To meet these challenges, it's widely recognized that society as a whole must decrease carbon intensity and improve energy efficiency by a factor of 3. The company states: "Schneider Electric believes that we can co-create the future in a world that is becoming more electric, more digitized, more decarbonized and more decentralized, helping the world to meet these challenges. Schneider Electric makes energy safe, efficient, reliable, connected and sustainable, ensuring energy is on, therefore 'Life is On' for everyone."
In addition to enabling the world to meet growing energy demand more sustainably, particularly through the use of renewable power and energy efficiency solutions, Schneider Electric recognizes the responsibility to meet the global energy challenge more inclusively as well. This means extending energy opportunity to the more than 2 billion people on the planet either living without access to energy or to whom it is too expensive to use or for whom it is not provided reliably. Schneider Electric sees access to energy as fundamental human right and commits significant resources each year to bring power to underserved communities around the world.
Innovation At Every Level
For over 100 years, Schneider Electric has innovated in power distribution. Today, the company has a new portfolio of smart, connected products. The company is producing products for different business sectors:
- Connected Products: Schneider Electric integrates smart, connected technology into all its devices--drives, UPS, energy storage, circuit breakers, LV panels, MV switchgear, and remote terminal units--so they are capable of digitally transmitting data.
- Edge Control: Schneider Electric overlays connected products with hardware and software to make real-time automation and control decisions at the local, operational level. This enables control and automation at the edge of the Internet of Things network for mission-critical applications that need real-time and local control.
- Apps, Analytics & Services: Schneider Electric's enterprise-level software, applications and analytics take all the data aggregated from the lower levels described above and turn it into operational intelligence, either on-premise or in the cloud.
Schneider Electric solutions provide cyber-secure cloud connectivity. At the same time, the company caters to on-premise solutions for mission-critical and data-sensitive scenarios. See, e.g., the Frost & Sullivan report on Schneider Electric's multi-layered "defense in depth" cybersecurity approach, Cybersecurity for Industrial Automation & Control Environments.
Connectivity
Building on its work in energy management and automation within these industries and leveraging its expertise in "connected" devices, Schneider Electric is a leader in the emerging area of the "Internet of Things" (IoT) and Industrial Internet. Through IoT-enabled solutions and services, Schneider Electric is turning operational data gathered from heretofore "dumb" machines and devices--from lights and thermostats to mechanical drives and controls--into information..
EcoStruxure(TM) architecture is the company's active energy management solution. This architecture is designed to enable customers to better control, supervise, and manage total enterprise performance.
Schneider Electric is active in initiatives such as the smart home, smart city, smart manufacturing and smart grid.
Operations
Business organization and markets
Schneider Electric structures its business into four areas:
- Buildings & Partner: #1 worldwide in low voltage and building automation
- Industry: #1 worldwide in process safety systems
- Infrastructure: #1 worldwide in medium voltage and grid automation
- IT: #1 worldwide in critical power and cooling
Schneider Electric primarily targets the following four energy-intensive end markets:
- Building (45%)
- Industry (21%)
- Infrastructure (20%)
- Datacenter & Networks (14%)
Within these core markets, the company has established a presence in the following industries:
- Buildings: Over 1 million building use Schneider Electric technology, including approximately 40% of all hospitals and 3 of the top 5 hotel chains.
- Oil and Gas: 20 of the top oil and gas companies in the world use Schneider Electric technology.
- Mining: 9 of the 10 largest mining, metals and minerals companies work with Schneider Electric.
- Food & Beverage: 11 of the top brands in Food & Beverage are Schneider Electric customers.
- Machine Builders: 8 of the top 10 packaging machine builders are Schneider Electric customers.
- Water & Wastewater: Over 100 water and wastewater plants run on Schneider Electric technology.
- Electric Utilities: 10 of the world's top electric utilities rely on Schneider Electric.
- Datacenters: 3 of the top 4 hyper-scale cloud providers run on Schneider Electric solutions.
Environmental performance
Since 2005, the company has authored an annual Planet & Society Barometer, whereby it publicly reports its sustainability metrics in a methodical and transparent way. This scorecard highlights three-year commitments to specific objectives that advance planet, profit, and people.
The company incorporates six pillars into its philosophy and strategic approach to sustainability and environmental responsibility:
- Deploying low-CO2 and resources strategies
- Building an increasingly green supply chain
- Leveraging waste as worth
- Promoting green attributes and value-adds
- Implementing a circular economy
- Strengthening its environmental governance
Corporate responsibility
Schneider Electric has won awards for its corporate citizenship, including:
- Corporate Knights 2016, ranked 12th most sustainable company of the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World"
- Ethisphere's 2016 "One of the World's Most Ethical Companies" for the sixth consecutive year
- United Nations Women and Global Compact 2015 "CEO Leadership Award" as a Champion for Gender Equality
- Ranked most sustainable company of the CAC 40 for the second consecutive year by Enjeux Les Echos and Institut RSE
Management team
Schneider Electric SE is led by Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO, who has been with the company since 1986. His career at Schneider Electric has developed largely outside France in operational functions in Italy, China, South Africa and the USA. Within the General Management, he served as Vice Executive President of the International Operating Division from 2002 before being appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) in 2004. In 2006 he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer; and in 2013, he became Chairman and CEO.
Jean-Pascal Tricoire is joined on the executive committee by 16 other members (as of February 16, 2016):
Global functions
- Emmanuel Babeau, Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of Finance & Legal Affairs
- Prith Banerjee, Executive Vice President, Technology
- Olivier Blum, Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources
- Annette Clayton, Executive Vice President, Global Supply Chain
- Hervé Coureil, Executive Vice President, Information Systems
- Daniel Doimo, Executive Vice President, Global Solutions
- Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Executive Vice President, Strategy
- Chris Leong, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing
Operations
- Leonid Mukhamedov, Executive Vice President, Europe Operations
- Luc Rémont, Executive Vice President, France Operations
- Laurent Vernerey, Executive Vice President, North America Operations
- ZHU Hai, Executive Vice President, China Operations
Businesses
- Frédéric Abbal, Executive Vice President, Infrastructure
- Clemens Blum, Executive Vice President, Industry
- Phillippe Delorme, Executive Vice President, Buildings & Partner
- Hal Grant, Executive Vice President, IT
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