Keolis

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Keolis SA

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legal form Société Anonyme
founding 2001
Seat Paris , FranceFranceFrance 
management Kathleen Wantz-O'Rourke (interim), Patrick Jeantet (from 2020)
Number of employees 65,000 (2018)
sales 5.9 billion euros (2018)
Branch traffic
Website www.keolis.com
Status: December 2019

The Keolis SA , headquartered in Paris , is a subsidiary international passenger of the SNCF . The German subsidiary of Keolis is based in Düsseldorf and has the status of a rail transport company . As the largest private provider in North Rhine-Westphalia , the company operates local rail passenger transport under the brand name eurobahn . Keolis Deutschland also operates a section of the route in Hesse and the Netherlands.

Key figures

The Keolis Group employs over 68,500 people in nine European countries (Belgium, Germany, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden) as well as in Australia, China, India, the USA, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. It operates subways, trams, trains and a total of 24,000 buses. In France, Keolis is the largest provider of local public transport, operating 88 urban transport networks . With the merger of Keolis and Effia - the third largest operator of car parks in France - in 2010, the position as a fully integrated transport service provider was further expanded, for example with the rental of parking spaces for bicycles and cars.

The company's turnover is 6.6 billion euros worldwide (2019), 50 percent of which was achieved outside France. The Keolis Group operates rail passenger transport on 5754 km of route in Great Britain, Germany, France, the USA and the Netherlands.

history

Keolis was created in 2001 through the merger of the French local transport groups VIA-GTI, which was controlled by BNP Paribas at the time , and Cariane, a subsidiary of the French state railway SNCF. After the merger, SNCF held 43.5 percent of the shares. In 2004, the SNCF bought the majority stake in BNP Paribas and in 2007 gave a share to the financial investors Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec , Axa Private Equity and Pragma. In February 2010, through the merger of Keolis and the French transport service provider EFFIA, SNCF increased its stake from 45.4 to 56.7 percent.

Keolis has been 70 percent owned by SNCF since April 2012 , after taking over the shares from Axa and Pragma. The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec now retains a 30 percent stake.

In 2014, the US subsidiary was awarded a contract by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for a contract worth US $ 2.7 billion over eight years.

Keolis USA is also bidding to build a new route for the Washington Metro and encountered opposition from Holocaust survivors who are demanding compensation from its parent company, SNCF.

In 2015, ATE, Australia's main bus company, was acquired by Keolis SA. In May 2019 it was announced that Keolis had made an irrevocable purchase offer for CarPostal France to PostBus Schweiz AG . In September 2019, the transaction was approved by the French competition authority.

In December 2019, Keolis’s German subsidiary, known under the brand name Eurobahn, was to take over two S-Bahn lines in the VRR network . However, since Eurobahn was unable to provide sufficient engine drivers , the contract was terminated by the VRR before operations began.

subsidiary company

Keolis Germany - eurobahn
Keolis Nederland

Keolis holds shares in or owns the following companies:

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 11: Lower Saxony 3 . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-670-4 .

Web links

Commons : Keolis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keolis website (accessed December 2, 2019)
  2. ↑ Company - eurobahn. In: www.eurobahn.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Keolis: Figures. In: www.keolis.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Company - eurobahn. In: www.eurobahn.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  5. ^ Keolis: Keolis: acteur majeur du transport public de voyageurs. In: www.keolis.com. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Company - eurobahn. In: www.eurobahn.de. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Keolis and Effia merge completed. SNCF is now the majority shareholder in Keolis. (No longer available online.) February 8, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 18, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.keolis.de  
  8. ↑ The SNCF se renforce dans sa Keolis branch. Le Figaro, April 18, 2012, accessed May 3, 2013 (French).
  9. ↑ https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/03/06/losing-company-sues-block-commuter-rail-contract-with-mbta/9OySq4fC1ll3S1QeZaoW9O/story.html
  10. ^ French railway firm finally set to pay reparations in the US for transporting 76,000 Jews to Nazi death camps as it seeks to secure billion dollar contract
  11. ^ Keolis: History. In: www.keolis.com. Retrieved May 13, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Post wants to sell CarPostal France. In: handelszeitung.ch . May 27, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Strategic realignment - Post sells French Carpostal - with a big loss. In: srf.ch . September 30, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ DerWesten- derwesten.de: Gelsenkirchen: VRR withdraws the operation of the S1 from Eurobahn - this company now operates the popular S-Bahn line. September 18, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .