Press releases

VINCI Airports, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary, today signed an agreement to acquire from current shareholders an effective 50.01% stake in Gatwick Airport Limited, a freehold property airport.

VINCI Airports has satisfied all the conditions precedent in the contract and is officially taking over the concession at Nikola Tesla Airport in Belgrade.

LISEA, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary (33.4%) and the concession company that will be operating the South Europe Atlantic high-speed rail line until 2061, has refinanced €2.2 billion of the debt it raised from a pool of banks in 2011 to finance the construction of the rail line between Tours and Bordeaux.

Eurovia has finalised an agreement with the Salini Impregilo Group to acquire the Plants and Paving division of its subsidiary Lane Construction.

In a joint venture with The Lane Construction Corporation, Eurovia’s North Carolina subsidiary Blythe Construction has won the design-build contract for the N.C. 540 - Triangle Expressway Southeast Extension in Raleigh, North Carolina, the state’s capital and second-largest city.

VINCI organises today in Marseille a Capital Market Day focused on Eurovia.

In 2010, VINCI’s Board of Directors innovated by creating the position of Lead Director. This innovation was adopted as a best practice by many other companies listed on the Paris stock market.

Eurovia, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development, has won two design-build contracts to develop two major corridors in North Carolina.

The Alise joint venture led by VINCI Energies via its subsidiary SDEL Transport Grands Projets, in partnership with Eiffage Énergie Systèmes (50/50), has won the contract to comprehensively implement the electrical architecture of Grand Paris Express Line 15 South.

Thanks to its ambitious international development policy, the VINCI Airports network handled more than 180 million passengers for the first time in a 12-month year-on-year period.

Eurovia, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development, in collaboration with VINCI Autoroutes, has recently achieved the world’s first “fully recycled road”.

VINCI has successfully issued a €1.75 billion bond, divided between a €0.75 billion bond maturing in September 2025 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.00%, and a €1.0 billion bond maturing in September 2030 and carrying a coupon of 1.75%.

VINCI Immobilier and the shareholders of Urbat Promotion have started exclusive negotiations on the acquisition of all Urbat Promotion’s share capital by VINCI Immobilier.

After having met all the condition precedent, VINCI Airports, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary, finalized today the acquisition of the airport portfolio held by Airports Worldwide, following the signature of the agreement with previous owner OMERS (Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System), in April 2018.

Eurovia has signed an agreement with Salini Impregilo Group to acquire the Lane Asphalt Plants & Paving division of its subsidary Lane Construction, whose operations cover industrial and roadworks activities, for a total consideration of $555 million.

VINCI Energies, via its subsidiary Eitech, one of the Swedish leading specialists in electrical works and engineering, has signed a contract with NCC Sverige AB regarding responsibility for all technical installations to the partial project E02 Central Station in Gothenburg.

The VINCI Group has just been informed by its partners of an IT glitch within the banking network that caused an error in calculating the exercisable voting rights for the Shareholders’ General Meeting of 17 April 2018.

VINCI announces the publication today of its 2018 half-year financial report as well as its submission to the French financial markets regulator (l’Autorité des marchés financiers).

VINCI has announced the appointment of Grégoire Thibault as the Group's Director of Investor Relations, effective 17 July 2018.

In the second quarter of 2018, traffic across the 36 platforms managed by VINCI Airports was up 7.4%* from the second quarter of 2017, with 42.9 million passengers handled in the network during the period.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 25 June 2018.

VINCI Energies, via its Australian subsidiary Electrix, has won the streetlight network management contract for the Canberra Region (population 400,000) awarded by the Australian Capital Territory Government.

ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) has successfully issued a €700 million bond due to mature in June 2028 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.375 %.

Canadian energy infrastructure operator TransCanada Corporation has awarded a contract to a joint venture made up of Spiecapag Canada Corp, a VINCI subsidiary and operational leader, and Macro Pipelines Inc. to build two sections of gas pipeline in the province of Vancouver, British Columbia.

VINCI Highways, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary and concession holder of Lima’s main expressway until 2049, opened section 2 of the infrastructure on Friday, 15 June 2018.

Developed at the initiative of the Fondation VINCI pour la Cité, Liva is a back-to-work company providing logistics services for building sites.

As leader of a joint venture with Metrostav and Swietelsky Stavební, Eurovia has won the contract to build a 14.7 km section of the D35 motorway, the Czech Republic’s east-west corridor, between Èasy and Ostrov. Eurovia is the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development projects.

VINCI is today inaugurating the premises of Leonard:Paris, the new common home of the Group’s innovators, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 23 May 2018.

Between now and 2022, VINCI Energies is to roll out fibre to the home (FTTH) in 26 French administrative departments to provide very high-speed broadband access for 600,000 rural households.

ARCOS, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the VINCI group, holds a concession contract with the French government since 29 January 2016. This 54-year contract covers the design, financing, construction, operation and maintenance of the A355 motorway, which bypasses Strasbourg to the west.

Business indicators for the first quarter of 2018, despite adverse weather conditions in Europe, confirm the positive trends seen in 2017 and support the Group’s forecasts of higher revenue and income for the full year.

VINCI Airports, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary, is acquiring nine new airports (two freehold property, three concession, four management contracts) and three partial management contracts in American airports following acquisition of the airport portfolio held by Airports Worldwide.

VINCI Construction France has started construction works on the Origine complex in Nanterre on behalf of customer ICADE. The new project is located at the heart of the Quartier des Terrasses, opposite the future Quartier des Groues.

VINCI subsidiary Sogea-Satom has been awarded two major road building projects in Cameroon for the Public Works Ministry.

The consortium comprising VINCI Construction subsidiary Sogea-Satom (leader), Egis, Baudin-Chateauneuf and Alcor has won a significant contract to design and build a stadium in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire’s political and administrative capital.

VINCI’s Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting, chaired by Xavier Huillard, the Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, was held on 17 April 2018 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The quorum was 58.99% and the shareholders’ meeting approved all the resolutions submitted.

Eurovia, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Quebec civil engineering contractor TNT group, a subsidiary of Transelec Common Inc

In the first quarter of 2018, traffic across platforms operated by VINCI Airports increased 11.6% compared to the first quarter of 2017, with a total of 38.6 million passengers served in the network airports.

VINCI Energies, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in energy, and information and communication technology (ICT) services, has acquired Wah Loon Engineering from its management and Dymon Asia Private Equity Fund. The company is specialised in turn key electrical and mechanical projects including design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning and maintenance.

The shareholders of VINCI are invited to take part in the Company’s Combined Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting, which will be held on Tuesday 17 April 2018 at 10.00 a.m., Salle Pleyel, 252, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré – 75008 Paris.

Government-owned rail company Deutsche Bahn awarded work project 1.4 to VINCI Construction Terrassement for the high-speed rail line that will connect Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, to Ulm, in Germany

VINCI and HOCHTIEF, in a joint venture, have been awarded the design and build contract for Sydhavn Metro Line (Line 4) in Copenhagen. The client Metroselskabet has awarded the contract to an equal-parts joint venture consisting of VINCI Construction Grands Projets and HOCHTIEF Infrastructure.

VINCI Construction, through a joint venture led by Dodin Campenon Bernard and including GTM Ouest and Botte Fondations, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, along with Spie Batignolles TPCI, Spie Fondations and Legendre Génie Civil, has successfully completed tunnelling Line b, the second automated metro line in Rennes, for regional authority Rennes Métropole and transport authority Semtcar.

VINCI Energies, through its specialist brand VINCI Facilities, has secured the renewal of its facilities management contract covering Thales sites in France.

Ile-de-France Mobilités has awarded a contract to VINCI subsidiary Eurovia to build the infrastructure for the new Tram 9 tramway line between Porte de Choisy and Orly-Ville.

VINCI filed today its 2017 Registration Document with the French financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).

VINCI Construction subsidiary HEB Construction, has been chosen as part of an alliance contract to build the Northern Corridor Improvements Project (NCI Project).

The consortium led by VINCI Construction (Dodin Campenon Bernard, lead company; VINCI Construction France; VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Botte Fondations), together with Spie batignolles (Spie batignolles Génie Civil and Spie batignolles Fondations), has been awarded a major contract as part of the Grand Paris Express programme.

VINCI announces the publication of its consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2017 (financial statements and notes) accompanied by the report of the statutory auditors on the consolidated financial statements.

The French public prosecutor of Nanterre has decided to take no further action regarding the complaint made by the association SHERPA against VINCI concerning the latter’s activities in Qatar.

Via its Omexom energy transition brand, VINCI Energies has won the Société d’Electricité du Sénégal (SENELEC) contract to install five new extra high voltage transformer stations, nearly 200 km of overhead and underground EHV transmission lines, over 100 distribution substations in various parts of the country and a regional load dispatch centre.

He will report to Christian Labeyrie, VINCI Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, and will oversee the Cash Management and Financing department and Tax department.

In the fourth quarter of 2017, the network of airports managed by VINCI Airports served 38.5 million passengers, of which 36.5 million in the airports held on 1 January 2017, an increase of 11.9% compared to Q4 2016 on a like-for-like network basis.

ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) has successfully issued a €1 billion bond due to mature in January 2030 and carrying an annual coupon of 1.375 %.

VINCI Construction, as leader of a joint venture with the Andritz Hydro electromechanical company, has won the contract to build the Abdelmoumen pumped storage hydroelectric plant (PSP) located 70 km from Agadir, Morocco.

The Republic of Serbia and ANT (Airport Nikola Tesla) have selected VINCI Airports, the world’s fourth-largest airport operator, as best bidder for the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport concession.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 2 January 2018.

The City of Cologne has awarded a contract to restructure and expand four schools and manage them for a period of 29 years to VINCI Facilities SKE, the German subsidiary of VINCI Energies. The contract took effect on 1 January 2018.