List of Companies of France - Former Companies

Former Companies

Companies that merged and were renamed or companies that have disappeared:

  • Aéropostale
  • Aérospatiale-Matra
  • Aventis - merged to become Sanofi-Aventis
  • Banque de l'Indochine - now part of Crédit Agricole
  • Company of One Hundred Associates
  • Crédit Commercial de France, now HSBC SA part of HSBC Holdings plc
  • Elf Aquitaine - now part of Total
  • Genset - now part of Serono
  • Index+ now part of MC2 France
  • Infogrames Entertainment, SA
  • Le Zèbre
  • Matra, now part of Lagardere
  • Matra Marconi Space, now EADS Astrium
  • Microïds, now part of MC2 France
  • Rhône-Poulenc - Chemical and Pharmaceutical company, merged with Hoechst AG to form Aventis.
  • SAGEM - Merged with SNECMA to become SAFRAN
  • Sanofi - Pharmaceutical company, merged with Synthélabo.
  • Sanofi-Synthélabo - Pharmaceutical company, merged with Aventis.
  • Synthélabo - Pharmaceutical company, merged with Sanofi.
  • SNECMA Moteurs
  • Thomson-CSF, now part of Thales
  • Vivendi - split into the present Vivendi (formerly Vivendi Universal) and Veolia Environnement
  • Wanadoo Edition, now part of MC2 France
  • Waterman, now part of American company Newell Rubbermaid

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