- CEO
- Cyrille C. Bollore
- Full Time Employees
- 3,086
- Sector
- Communication Services
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Address
- Tour Bolloré Puteaux France 92811
- IPO Date
- Oct 15, 2010
- Business
- Bolloré SE (BOIVF) operates as a diversified French conglomerate with primary activities in oil logistics, communications, and industry; headquartered in Puteaux, France, and founded in 1822. The company conducts operations across Europe, with extensions into North America, Asia, and Africa through equity stakes and subsidiaries. Bolloré Energy provides oil distribution, logistics, domestic fuel-oil, and diesel transport services in France, Switzerland, and Germany; the Industry division encompasses thin plastic films for packaging and capacitors via Bolloré Innovative Thin Films, electric batteries and buses through Blue Solutions and Bluebus, and intelligent systems for access control and mobility via Systems entities including IER, Automatic Systems, and Polycea; Communications derives from significant equity interests in Universal Music Group (music entertainment and publishing), Canal+ (audiovisual and pay-TV services), Louis Hachette Group (publishing, travel retail, and media), Havas (advertising and communications), and Vivendi (media and entertainment holdings). Bolloré SE maintains a substantial portfolio of listed securities valued at approximately 12.4 billion euros as of June 30, 2025, including stakes in agricultural assets like Socfin Group. Recent developments include the acquisition of Chantelat in November 2024 and service station network expansion in Germany following the 2023 purchase of Sicarbu Ouest; a major 30 million euro investment plan in Brittany for thin films production; Vivendi's December 2024 spin-off of Canal+, Louis Hachette Group, and Havas, resulting in Bolloré SE holding approximately 30.4% stakes in each and 29.3% in Vivendi, now accounted for as equity-method operating companies; share repurchases totaling 35.4 million Bolloré shares in H1 2025 for 196.5 million euros, with subsequent cancellations; Bolloré Logistics disposal in February 2024; and ongoing Gen4 solid-state battery R&D with new co-development partnerships in Japan and China.