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- JCDecaux SE operates as the world's largest outdoor advertising company, specializing in street furniture, transport advertising, and billboard advertising; its core offerings encompass advertising-financed bus shelters, kiosks, public benches, free-standing panels, and city information panels in the street furniture segment, advertising spaces in airports, metros, buses, and other land transport networks in the transport segment, and large-format billboards, neon-light billboards, and advertising wraps in the billboard segment; additional services include digital billboards, programmatic digital out-of-home (prDOOH) platforms such as VIOOH, public bike-sharing systems under the Cyclocity brand in over 30 cities worldwide, and innovative urban solutions like automatic public toilets, Filtreo air-purifying bus shelters, and data-driven advertising tools via JCDecaux Data Solutions. The company serves advertisers, brands, agencies, and local authorities across diverse sectors including retail, tourism, and public services, with a global footprint in more than 80 countries and 3,800 cities, particularly strong in Europe (including France, the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany), North America, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. Founded in 1964 by Jean-Claude Decaux in Lyon, France, JCDecaux SE maintains its headquarters in Plaisir near Paris and is listed on Euronext Paris (ticker: DEC), with ongoing family control through co-CEOs Jean-François Decaux and Jean-Charles Decaux. Recent developments include the launch of Brand Signature in October 2025, a new retail signage unit providing permanent and temporary indoor/outdoor signage solutions such as POS materials, digital signage, and stretched canvases across France via 70 regional agencies; the April 2025 rollout of programmatic buying for 270 premium digital screens in Sweden, primarily in Stockholm; the August 2025 purchase by Amar Family Office and JCDecaux SE of 1.7 million treasury shares to support long-term growth; a November 2025 share buy-back programme for up to 1.5 million shares following strong 2024 revenue of €3,935.3 million and H1 2025 revenue of €1,868.3 million; earlier acquisitions such as Clear Channel's businesses in Italy (2023, €15.1 million) and Spain (€60 million), Pisoni in southern France (2022), and Abri Services Media in western France (2020); and strategic initiatives like the 2030 ESG Strategy, Climate Strategy targeting Net Zero Carbon by 2050, and a global partnership with the United Nations Development Programme for Sustainable Development Goals.