Veolia

Veolia (legally Veolia Environnement SA) is a French-headquartered global leader in environmental services, organizing its work around three complementary activities — water, waste, and energy management — with a stated focus on the circular economy. The company provides drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment, waste collection, waste-to-energy processing, dismantling, and hazardous waste processing. Veolia aims to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation.

Veolia serves public authorities, local authorities, industrial and commercial service customers, and individuals across Europe, Asia, North America, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its energy solutions span the entire conversion cycle, from purchasing energies entering an industrial site to building or modernizing facilities and selling electricity into the market. The company's origins trace back to the Compagnie Générale des Eaux (CGE), founded to provide water services, which had expanded internationally by 1880 with a presence in Venice, Constantinople, and Porto, before moving through Vivendi-era restructurings to become Veolia Environnement.

The group is led by CEO Estelle Brachlianoff, who took over operational leadership from Antoine Frérot (who retained the Chairman position), and is headquartered in Aubervilliers near Paris. It is publicly listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker VIE. For FY2024, Veolia reported revenue growth of +5.0% to €44,692M, organic EBITDA growth of +5.8% to €6,788M, and current net income (group share) of €1,530M, up +14.6%.

Veolia is executing its GreenUp 2024–2027 strategic plan, with growth drivers ("boosters") including water technologies, hazardous waste, bioenergies, flexibility, and energy efficiency. As a company centered on ecological transformation and the circular economy, innovation in environmental and energy services is directly relevant to its core strategy and operations.