Our History
From its origins as a simple porcelain workshop, Legrand gradually refocused on electrical wiring devices and has now become the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures.
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Legrand’s purpose is to improve life by transforming spaces where people live, work and meet with electrical, digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative and sustainable. Every day, some 39,000 Legrand employees work hard to enhance electrical and digital building infrastructures and help develop connected buildings around the world.
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CEO
Over €6.6 billion
in total sales in 2019
Around 39,000 employees
worldwide
Accessible market
over €110 billion
€819 million in connected product sales in 2019,
up +29% over 2018
113%
average achievement rate
of CSR targets
at year-end 2019
Legrand’s development is powered by two growth drivers. The first is organic growth, buoyed by ongoing innovation, with new-product launches at regular intervals, and commercial initiatives. The second is external growth, through targeted, bolt-on acquisitions of small and mid-size companies that complement the Group’s business. At the same time, megatrends in society, technology and user habits—aging populations, environmental protection, urbanization, increasing mobility, the Internet of Things, the digital revolution and more—offer important development opportunities.
Innovation and new technologies are the core of Legrand’s culture.
Through external growth, Legrand takes a targeted approach to strengthening its positions in promising markets.
Social megatrends and emerging new needs represent important growth opportunities for Legrand.
From its origins as a simple porcelain workshop, Legrand gradually refocused on electrical wiring devices and has now become the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures.
Legrand’s beginnings were essentially European, but today it has a global presence. Operating on international markets, Legrand is established in close to 90 countries, and its products are distributed on every continent, in some 180 countries.
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