Our challenges and opportunities
Our strengths
• Climate emergency
• Workplace and social expectations
• Urbanisation
• Mobility
• Digitalisation
• World leader in concessions, energy and construction
• Partner for the long term working in the public interest
• Local presence with global expertise
• Diversity of skills and areas of expertise
• Decentralised management and entrepreneurial culture
• 130-year history
Our strategy
CONCESSIONS
Long cycles, high amounts of invested capital
• Renew and internationalise the concession portfolio, and extend its average maturity
• Focus growth primarily on transport infrastructure
• Seize opportunities in renewable energies
ENERGY AND CONSTRUCTION
Short cycles, low amounts of invested capital
• Put priority on margins over business volume
• Practise disciplined risk management
• Strengthen the Group’s presence in high value-added segments, such as energy
• Diversify our geographical spread of expertise
CROSS-BUSINESS
• Bolster synergy in operations to win new projects
• Continued international growth
• Achieve targets to reduce CO2 emissions by 40% (Scopes 1 and 2) and 20% (Scope 3) by 2030, validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)
• Optimise resources through the circular economy
• Preserve natural environments
• Promote inclusive growth and increase the number of women executives
OUR RESSOURCES
Human capital
• 279,266 employees worldwide
• 18% of employees in management positions
• 22 hours of training each year per employee
• 2,800 health & safety specialists
• 44% of training on health & safety
Technical expertise
• 55 R&D programmes
• €50 million budget for R&D
• lab recherche environnement:
partnership with VINCI‑ParisTech established in 2008
• Unparalleled array of expertise (underground projects, foundations, prestressing, geotechnical engineering, etc.)
• Active partner in the global fund to develop clean hydrogen infrastructure
Strong local roots
• More than 308,000 worksites
• 4,000 business units
• More than 70 airports managed
• More than 200 quarries in operation
• More than 7,500 km of motorways
• Operations in more than 120 countries
Environmental ambition and resources
• More than 800 environmental experts
• 37% of electricity consumption from renewable sources
• 41% EU Taxonomy-eligible revenue of which 21% is EU Taxonomy-aligned
• 43% EU Taxonomy-eligible CapEx of which 22% is EU Taxonomy-aligned
OUR INTEGRATED BUSINESS MODEL FOR VALUE CREATION
20,459 employees
Design, financing, programme management and infrastructure operation
135,708 employees *
Digital transformation and energy transition
119,383 employees
Design and construction of buildings and infrastructure
1,307 employees
Real estate development
OUR ADDED VALUE
Human capital
• 2.5 milion integration hours managed
• €490 million in incentive and retirement savings plans, employer contributions and profit-sharing in France
• €14.3 billion in employee remuneration (excluding Cobra IS)
• 10.2% of share capital owned by employees
• 68,612 new hires in permanent jobs
• 74% of Group companies with no lost-time workplace accidents
• 7,000 middle school students in the Give Me Five integration programme
• 2,032 employees involved in solidarity initiatives via the Group’s foundations
• More than 4,000 long-term unemployed people supported each year on integration programmes
• 12,667 people under the age of 26 recruited
Technical expertise
• 2,500 patents in effect around the world
• Leonard: 44 intrapreneurship projects supported in 2022 for a total of 150 since its inception, of which 16 have evolved into new business
• lab recherche environnement: 70 research projects related to energy, biodiversity or mobility since 2008
Strong local roots
• €38.8 billion in purchases
• €3.2 billion in investments
• 65% of the Group’s approved suppliers are SMEs
• 17 foundations and sponsorship organisations worldwide
• €35 billion contribution to GDP in France (at 31st December 2021)
• Almost 50% of the Group’s purchases in France are from SMEs
Environmental ambition
• 14% reduction in CO2 emissions from 2018, adjusted for the impact of acquisitions
• €7.3 billion of revenue in projects awarded with environmental certifications and labels
• 19% of recycled aggregate mix in VINCI Construction’s total production
• 49 airports using no phytosanitary products
• 100% of motorway rest areas equipped with electric vehicle charging stations
• 70% of VINCI Immobilier’s revenue generated through land recycling operations
• More than 30% of training hours devoted to the environment
BENEFICIARIES
• Customers Customer satisfaction and innovation
• Employees The Group’s most valuable asset
• Suppliers and subcontractors Local market players
• Citizens Partners working in the public interest with a positive social and employment impact
• Contributors to the energy transition
• Investors Robust performance over the long term
• Governments VINCI pays taxes in more than 100 countries. In France, VINCI ranks among the five biggest taxpayers
BUSINESS MODEL
A RESILIENT BUSINESS MODEL COMBINED WITH A SUSTAINABLE GROWTH STRATEGY
VINCI’s business model is stable in its fundamentals and can be applied to ever-expanding geographies and areas of expertise. This stability and versatility are what gives it such immense resilience. The Group’s strategy is to adapt and hone this robust model as it continues to develop across its three businesses: Concessions, Energy and Construction. VINCI’s priority is to actively engage in the energy and environmental transition, by harnessing its innovation capacity to achieve responsible, sustainable growth.
BUSINESS MODEL
VINCI’s business strategy has long been built around the complementary nature of its concessions, energy and construction activities. The Group has never ceased to expand its business model, moving from electricity concessions in the early 20th century into motorway, airport and renewable energy concessions in the 21st, and from building and infrastructure construction into specialist activities in civil engineering and information technologies. As it has diversified its areas of expertise, so has VINCI entered more and more international markets. In 2023, the Group generated 57% of its revenue outside France, compared to 37% a decade earlier. In addition to a broad range of businesses and markets, VINCI gains its resilience from its management approach. The Group’s highly decentralised organisation and supportive management culture gives its companies and people tremendous agility in adapting to changes and unpredictability in their environment.
Drawing on these solid, shared fundamentals, VINCI will continue to implement its long-term strategy and to develop its three core businesses.
CONCESSIONS
VINCI’s strategy for its Concessions business focuses on transport infrastructure. Like its concession contracts, this strategy is long-term. It aims to diversify, renew and internationalise the Group’s mix of concessions and extend the average maturity of its portfolio. VINCI’s fast growth in airport and motorway concessions since the 2000s, both in France and internationally, results from its steady implementation of this strategy. To achieve its aims, the Group harnesses its integrated expertise – as an investor and developer of projects, a designer and builder of infrastructure, and an infrastructure operator and maintenance provider – and combines this know-how with its partnership culture and experience collaborating with the local authorities and stakeholders in its ecosystems, sometimes as part of a consortium with other investors.
Structural demand for mobility, along with the large investments needed to adapt transport infrastructure to low-carbon uses while reinforcing its climate resilience, will deliver a long-term boost to transport infrastructure concessions.
The Group will apply its expertise in infrastructure financing, development, construction and operation to its portfolio of renewable energy production assets.
In all these sectors, new project development will benefit from synergies between the Concessions, Energy and Construction businesses, building on their areas of expertise and established presence in the targeted regions.
ENERGY
VINCI has focused strategically on its energy activities since the early 2000s. This has resulted in the very sharp internal and external growth of VINCI Energies, whose expertise in energy infrastructure and information technology have proven to be fully aligned with fundamental market trends. The Group’s expansion in this area accelerated with the integration of Cobra IS, the former energy arm of Spanish group ACS, at the end of 2021. Cobra IS is a complementary fit with VINCI Energies, with a strong foothold in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America and a solid reputation for delivering large EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) projects.
The Group is leveraging Cobra IS’s expertise to build a portfolio of renewable energy production assets. At the end of 2023, its photovoltaic projects in operation or under construction had a combined capacity of 2 GW. This portfolio should see robust long-term growth, buoyed by the rising needs of the energy transition.
This transition, in tandem with digital transformation, will more broadly support the expansion of all of VINCI’s Energy business activities.
CONSTRUCTION
VINCI Construction is one of the Group’s earliest businesses and where its entrepreneurial culture all started. Today, it is a global construction industry leader. Starting in 2021, the integration of Eurovia’s activities has brought all of VINCI Construction’s civil engineering, infrastructure and building know-how into one management division, creating internal synergies and facilitating innovation.
VINCI Construction will continue to develop its three pillars – major projects, specialty networks and proximity networks – using a combined global and local approach to achieve optimal market coverage and extend the international reach of the Group’s activities.
In line with trends that are already under way, the energy and environmental transitions will spur the long-term development of construction activities, in infrastructure as well as building and urban development. Added to the challenges of transition in these areas are those posed by increasing urbanisation and the transformation of homes, workplaces and public areas.