Kardham innovates and goes beyond its borders

The KARDHAM group designs and manufactures workplaces, living spaces and large community facilities for private and public contractors. Its activities, from strategic consulting to the “turnkey” delivery of operations, recorded growth (gross margin) of 8.3% between 2017 and 2016. Consolidated turnover stood at € 35 million, headcount (excluding international partnerships) reached 215 employees in May 2017.

“Despite the economic and political uncertainties, we are stepping up initiatives. This reflects our dynamism and our ambition: to offer an ever greater number of users of our spaces quality places, with ambitious and innovative architecture and design, which invite performance and well-being”, emphasizes Jean-François Couëc, Chairman of the KARDHAM group.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2016 AND THE FIRST HALF OF 2017

KARDHAM, new identity of the group

The group’s new identity, born from the union between Amsycom, created in 1992, and Cardete Huet Architecture, created in 1967, was unveiled in November, with the group’s first participation in the SIMI fair.

KARDHAM Conseil strengthens its expertise and expands its clientele

While EDF has renewed its confidence in the group, new major customers have called on KARDHAM Conseil: Schneider Electric, Crédit Agricole, Capgemini, Suez, etc. Several missions have been carried out outside France's borders: in Belgium (European Commission ), in Switzerland (Unicef) or in Africa (Total). They demonstrate the ability of KARDHAM consultants in real estate strategy, workplace strategy or change management to promote new ways of working or to secure operations by adapting to local contexts.

KARDHAM Architecture: 9th French architectural firm

After having delivered two stadiums (Toulouse and Lens) within the framework of Euro 2016, the Airbus Helicopters plant at Le Bourget, or started the extension of Blagnac airport and its hotel infrastructures, the agency d he architecture entered the top 10 of French agencies and brings together 90 architects. The Paris branch is now operational and will be further strengthened.

Finally, KARDHAM Architecture joined the select club of high-rise building designers, winner of the iconic Occitanie Tower project in Toulouse, in association with the American architect Daniel Liebeskind.

KARDHAM Space planning: a remarkable breakthrough in the Parisian market

Significant tertiary operations, from 10,000 m² to more than 60,000 m², have multiplied since autumn 2016 in the Paris region, particularly for CM-CIC. Other operations are characterized by technological innovation and design such as Doctolib headquarters. The retail / network teams have stepped up their collaboration with Leroy Merlin and Crédit Agricole (80 Ile-de-France branches).

Regional activity showed smoother growth (+ 3%).

2017, TOWARDS NEW GEOGRAPHICAL AND INNOVATION TERRITORIES

The entry of BPIFrance and Amundi Private Equity into the capital of the KARDHAM group, which is also still 90% owned by its executives and founders, opens up new fields of opportunity:

• Internationally, the group has opened a subsidiary in Morocco. The subsidiary delivers its first operation in the dynamic Marina district of Casablanca in July. KARDHAM also has two representative offices in Belgium and Spain. With the strategic and logistical support of BPIFrance and Business France, KARDHAM's international network will continue to expand into the main European geographies.
• "KARDHAM Connect", the group’s digital initiative, was born in the first half of the year. It offers its customers a menu of connected services adapted to the challenges of places and their use, with one vocation: to make workplaces the engine of remarkable social dynamics. The first achievements are already being deployed on significant surfaces.
• “More than ever in the history of the group, we believe that KARDHAM can become the independent French leader in its businesses and go beyond its borders, with an obsession at the heart of the projects that we program, design and deliver: making space the support and the symbol of the success of our customers”, declares Jean-François Couëc.