Pressemitteilungen

VINCI Highways, VINCI Concessions’ subsidiary, has finalised the acquisition of 100% of LAMSAC company, concessionaire-holder of Línea Amarilla, a 25 km toll road around the center of Lima, and PEX, LAMSAC’s electronic toll collection operator. The deal is based on an enterprise value of LAMSAC and PEX at PEN 5.5billion (around EUR 1.5 billion) as of 31 December 2015.

The new 12 km portion of the East End Crossing connecting the U.S. states of Indiana and Kentucky was inaugurated on 18 December 2016 at a ceremony attended by Eric Holcomb, governor of Indiana, and Matt Bevin, governor of Kentucky, as well as Alain Bonnot, Chairman of VINCI Construction Grands Projets, and Matthew Walsh Co-Chairman of The Walsh Group.

Eurovia, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development, has won the design-build contract to renovate and widen a 32 km section of the I-85 motorway in Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties in South Carolina between Charlotte and Greenville.

On 22 November 2016, at 16:05, VINCI was impersonated in the form of false information being sent to certain media outlets.

A fake press release was published today by Bloomberg at 4.05 PM. VINCI denies formally all the information contained in this fake press release and is investigating all legal actions in furtherance thereof.

One of the most ambitious projects in the history of engineering passes a major milestone today as the arch shielding radioactive waste caused by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power station accident has started sliding into place.

Eurovia, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in transport infrastructure and urban development, has been awarded the eight works packages of the second phase of the modernisation of the tramway in Košice, Slovakia’s second largest city. Worth almost €80 million, this new contract follows on from the first phase of works, completed by Eurovia between April and October 2015 (for €20 million).

Continuing its work with the Mandarin Oriental Group, VINCI Construction signed the contract to renovate the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park hotel in London, a project with a value of about £60 million (€69 million).

VINCI Energies, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in energy services and information and communication technologies, has reached an agreement with Novabase to acquire its subsidiary Novabase IMS.

As part of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 4 October 2016.

Pursuant to the agreement signed on 13 June 2016 with Ardian Infrastructure and Crédit Agricole Assurances, VINCI has announced the disposal of its remaining 24.6% stake in Indigo (formerly VINCI Park).

TollPlus, based in Phoenix (Arizona) and present in Hyderabad (India), has emerged in just five years as a reference in development, implementation and maintenance of dematerialised solutions for Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) operations and customer management. Already active in the USA, the company currently deploys its transaction management system across almost 350 toll plazas in India.

On August 12th 2016, Colombia’s National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) awarded the project 3rd Lane Bogota-Girardot: a public-private partnership (PPP) contract with a term of 30 years for the addition of 65km of 3rd lane and the operation of 141 km of the highway between Bogotá and Girardot, in Cundinamarca and Tolima Departments in Colombia.

VINCI Concessions has signed a cooperation agreement with Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC), the Vietnamese highways agency. The signing at Government Guest House in Hanoi was followed by a ceremony attended by President Trần Đại Quang of Vietnam and President François Hollande of France.

VINCI announces the successful placement by its subsidiary Cofiroute of a €1.3 billion bond issue, equally divided between a bond issue maturing in February 2025 with an annual coupon of 0.375% and a bond issue maturing in September 2028 with a 0.75% coupon.

VINCI and Paris FC are organising the first VINCI Cup, as part of their partnership, on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 August at the Complexe Marcel Bec in Meudon, a southwestern suburb of Paris. The aim for this unprecedented international tournament is to establish it as the benchmark for under-15 (U15) football players.

VINCI Highways, VINCI Concessions’ international highways subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Brazilian group INVEPAR for the acquisition of 100% of LAMSAC company, concessionaire-holder of Línea Amarilla toll road in the center of Lima, and PEX, LAMSAC’s electronic toll collection operator. The deal is based on an enterprise value of LAMSAC and PEX at PEN 5.5 billion (around EUR 1.5 billion) as of 31 December 2015.

A joint venture made up of VINCI Construction subsidiaries VINCI Construction Grands Projets and EMCC and the Belgian dredging company Jan de Nul has won the $147 million (about €130 million) contract to extend the port of Kingston, Jamaica. Leading worldwide shipping group CMA CGM, which has held the concession for the port of Kingston since 1 July 2016, selected the joint venture to carry out the project.

VINCI announces the publication today of its 2016 half-year financial report as well as its submission to the French financial markets regulator (l’Autorité des marchés financiers).

On closing of an invitation to tender, the French State, which held 60% of Aéroports de Lyon, named the VINCI Airports – Caisse des Dépôts – Crédit Agricole Assurances consortium as preferred buyer of its shares in ADL today, 28 April. ADL holds a concession contract running until 31 December 2047 for Lyon Saint-Exupéry, France's second-largest regional airport, and the Lyon Bron airport.

As part of its Grand Network Modernisation Plan (GPMR), SNCF Réseau awarded works package No. 1 of the new "high output renewal train" contract to the joint venture made up of Eurovia (VINCI) subsidiary ETF, Meccoli (lead company), VFLI and Sferis.

Following last night's dreadful events in Nice, the VINCI Group shares the pain and sorrow of the victims and expresses its full solidarity with the government authorities, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, the Alpes-Maritimes department and the city of Nice.

Eurovia's Chilean subsidiary Bitumix SA raises its holding in Bitumix CVV from 50% to 100%.

VINCI Energies, via Axians, the leading partner and Sogea Est (a VINCI Construction France subsidiary), in a joint venture with Sogetrel – has won a €124 million contract to design and build a very high speed network for Moselle Fibre, a joint association encompassing the Moselle department council and 19 municipality clusters (almost 500 municipalities, home to 300,000 people).

As part of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 22 June 2016.

VINCI is continuing its growth, in particular outside Europe and in the concessions businesses. Against the backdrop of numerous challenges and opportunities – the energy transition, the digital revolution and the development of open innovation – the group is implementing a strategy centered on the quality of its products and services, the client service it provides and the career paths it offers the talent it seeks to recruit.

Ardian, the independent private investment company, and Crédit Agricole Assurances have signed an agreement with VINCI to acquire its 24.6% stake in parking operator Indigo, previously called VINCI Park. Following this transaction, the company will be 49.2% owned by Ardian Infrastructure and 49.2% by Crédit Agricole Assurances. The remainder is owned by Group employees and management.

The Femern Link Contractors joint venture has signed today with the Danish government *contracts in Copenhagen for the design and build of the world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel, the Fehmarnbelt link between Denmark and Germany.

VINCI announces the successful placement by ASF (Autoroutes du Sud de la France) of a €500 million bond issue maturing in May 2026 with an annual coupon of 1%.

As part of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 29 April 2016.

VINCI’s Combined Shareholders’ General Meeting, chaired by Xavier Huillard, the Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, was held on 19 April 2016 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. The quorum was 58.08% and the shareholders’ meeting approved all the resolutions submitted.

The joint venture led by VINCI Construction Grands Projets, alongside Bouygues Construction’s subsidiary Bouygues Travaux Publics and their Egyptian partners Orascom Construction and Arabco Contractors, has won the Phase 3 contract for Line 3 of the Cairo metro.

VINCI Airports has finalised the acquisition of Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI, SA (AERODOM), a Dominican company holding a concession contract with the Dominican Government to operate six airports in the Dominican Republic until March 2030.

SNCF Réseau has awarded VINCI Construction – through its subsidiaries VINCI Construction France (lead company), VINCI Construction Grands Projets, Dodin Campenon Bernard, Soletanche Bachy France and Botte Fondations, in a joint venture with Spie Batignolles TPCI and Spie Fondations – the contract to build the new La Défense station and the adjacent tunnels.

On 1 April 2016, VINCI Airports will take over operation of the two Kansai’s region airports in Japan for a period of 44 years. This new acquisition is a major milestone in VINCI Airports’ international expansion. Operating on three continents and managing more than 100 million passengers per year, VINCI Airports is now one of the world’s five leading airport operators.

On 16 March 2016, Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia inaugurated the Phnom Penh and Siem Reap airport expansions at an official ceremony held at Phnom Penh International Airport.

VINCI will build its new head office in Nanterre (Hauts de Seine) in the centre of the Groues. It will form a new link between the City of Nanterre and the La Défense business district. In the 2020 timeframe, the 74,000 m2 complex will bring together at the same site some 4,000 employees of Group’s head office and its concession (VINCI Autoroutes, VINCI Airports) and contracting business lines (VINCI Energies, Eurovia and (VINCI Construction).

The 2015 Annual Report is now available in English on the Group’s website.

Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG has awarded Spiecapag, a subsidiary of Entrepose (VINCI Group), the Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) of three lots of onshore gas pipelines as part of the TAP (Trans-Adriatic Pipeline) project: one lot represents 185 km in Greece - between Kipoi and Kavala - and two lots are totalling 215 km in Albania, between Bilisht and Topoje.

VINCI announces the publication of its 2015 annual report as well as its registration with the French financial markets regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.

This Monday, Pierre Coppey, Chief Operating Officer of VINCI, and Pierre Ferracci, president of Paris FC, kicked off the VINCI employee sponsorship of the Paris FC Academy, a structure devoted to training young players at the French capital’s football club.

VINCI announces the publication of its consolidated financial statements at 31 December 2015 (summary statements and detailed notes) accompanied by the report of the statutory auditors on the consolidated financial statements.

VINCI Energies, the VINCI subsidiary specialising in energy services and ICT, has just finalised the acquisition of J&P Richardson Industries Pty Limited, based in Wacol, Queensland (north-eastern Australia).

VINCI subsidiary Eurovia has finalised the acquisition of Canadian rail works contractor Rail Cantech.

VINCI has signed the 54-year concession contract with the Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing to design, finance, build, operate and maintain the 24km western Strasbourg bypass. The dual two-lane carriageway section connects the A4/A35 in the north with the A352/A35 junction in the south.

Ringway, a Eurovia subsidiary in the United Kingdom which is dedicated to Highway services and a leading Company in long-term highway maintenance services, has been announced as Preferred Bidder for the Wiltshire and Swindon Highway Services Contracts, 2 Councils in the Southwest of England.

On the occasion of the state visit to France of Mr Hassan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Iranian Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, the Iran Airports Company and VINCI Airports today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the concession for the Mashhad and Isfahan airports, Iran’s 2nd and 5thlargest airports respectively.

The teams working for the joint venture led by VINCI subsidiaries VINCI Construction and VINCI Energies have handed over the new Koutio Médipôle hospital complex in Nouméa to the government of New Caledonia.

As part of the implementation of its share buyback programme, VINCI signed a share purchase agreement with an investment services provider on 11 January 2016