Group Overview

Veolia group aims to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation. With nearly 179,000 employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides game-changing solutions that are both useful and practical for water, waste and energy management. Through its three complementary business activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve available resources, and replenish them.

In 2020, the Veolia group supplied 95 million people with drinking water and 62 million people with wastewater service, produced nearly 43 million megawatt hours of energy and treated 47 million metric tons of waste. Veolia Environnement (listed on Paris Euronext: VIE) recorded consolidated revenue of €26.010 billion in 2020.

Highlights 2020

SEVEN GROWTH MARKETS

Veolia has identified seven key growth markets, representing sectors with the significant potential to generate revenue, in which resource strain drives growing demand for narrowly specialized expertise. These sectors are opening up new opportunities for environmental services in which Veolia already provides benchmark solutions: 

• The circular economy, to tackle the problem of dwindling raw materials, water and energy resources
• Innovative solutions to improve life in cities and related services
• Treating the most challenging types of pollution, such as toxic waste, treatment sludge and contaminated wastewater
• Decommissioning services for oil rigs, ships, aircraft and nuclear plants
• The food & beverage industry, ensuring compliance with stringent standards on health, safety and quality
• Mining, which requires extensive resources
• The oil & gas industry, governed by increasingly demanding environmental standards