The VINCI Group: over a century of construction and services, for the greater well-being of people.

Created in 1899 by French engineers Alexandre Giros and Louis Loucheur, Vinci has become the largest company in construction and related services worldwide.

Our History site highlights the milestones in the company's history, as well as the names of the entrepreneurs, companies and construction sites that have shaped that history.

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Urban lighting
 

1817
Maison Jean et Chabrié
Creation of the company

Banque Rothschild opens in Paris

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Oued Bourrdine water main at Bone,
Algeria (1925)

1878
Sogea
Creation of Etablissements Gibault, Sogea's predecessor

Edison invents the phonograph

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Hendrick Verwoerd Dam,
South Africa (1967-1972)

1880
Dumez
Creation of the company

Tahiti becomes a French colony

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Ground breaking ceremony for Marseilles
wastewater collection system, France (1891)

1891
GTM
Creation of the company

Michelin files a patent for the removable tire

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First SGE logo (1908)
 

1899
SGE
Creation of the company

Marconi invents the wireless signal, the precursor of the radio

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Prestressed concrete bridge over the
River Marne at Luzancy, France (1945-1946)

1920
Campenon Bernard
Creation of the company

Foundation of the French Communist Party

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First Entreprise Jean Lefebvre logo

1927
Entreprise Jean Lefebvre
Charles Lefebvre founded Salviam, later to become l'Entreprise Jean Lefebvre

Release of the first talking movie, Alan Crossland's The Jazz Singer

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Eugène Freyssinet

1943
Freyssinet
Edmé Campenon and Eugène Freyssinet create STUP (Société Technique pour l'Utilisation de la Précontrainte), which will later become Freyssinet

Alain Turing establishes the theoretical principles of the computer

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Official opening of the first section of the
A10 highway to Orleans, France (1973)

1970
Cofiroute
Creation of the company

Death of Charles de Gaulle

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Power substation (1930s)
 

1972
GTIE
Création de GTIE sous le nom de l'Union des Entreprises Electriques Régionales (UEER)

The United Kingdom and Ireland join the EEC (European Union)

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Eurovia placing HMA on highway

1997
Eurovia
Creation of the company

The United Kingdom returns Hong Kong to China

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VINCI's new logo (2000)

2000
SGE
SGE became VINCI
VINCI merged with Groupe GTM

The Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels stock markets merge to form Euronext