Yevgen Polyakov

ABM Industries Inc. is a facility management provider in the United States. ABM was founded in 1909 by Morris Rosenberg in San Francisco, California, as a single-person window washing business.As of 2013, the company is one of the largest facility management providers with over 130,000 employees,over 350 offices, and various international locations.

Primary services

ABM provides facility services in areas such as electrical and lighting, energy, facility engineering, HVAC and mechanical, janitorial services, landscape and grounds, parking and transportation.ABM's services also include energy efficiency and sustainability such as building improvements, electric vehicle charging stations, and renewable energy solutions.

Activities

As of November 30, 2014, the network includes 573 hotels in 48 countries of the world. They operate under the brands:

Park Hyatt

Andaz

Grand Hyatt

Hyatt Hotels

Hyatt Regency

Hyatt Place

Hyatt House

Hyatt Zilara

Hyatt Ziva

Hyatt Residence Club

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

The world has to rethink its relationship with resources and come up with new social and economic growth models that are more efficient, better balanced and more sustainable.

With 160 years of expertise in the areas of water, energy and waste, Veolia applies its capacity for innovation to pursuing human progress and wellbeing, and improving the performance of businesses and regions.

To make the switch from a resource consumption rationale to a use-and-recover approach in today’s circular economy, Veolia designs and implements solutions aimed at improving access to resources while at the same time protecting and renewing those same resources.

This is how VEOLIA AND ITS EMPLOYEES contribute EACH AND EVERY DAY TO RESOURCING THE WORLD.

Improving access to resources

In a world of growing needs and dwindling reserves, access to basic resources is becomingly increasingly complex and a source of tension. In response to these challenges, Veolia is developing durable solutions to supply the greatest possible number of people with the resources needed to ensure the wellbeing of communities, to make regions attractive and to underpin the performance of companies. These solutions include access to safe drinking water and energy services for cities and their inhabitants, services to industry to guarantee continuous supplies for production processes, and recovery systems for materials within a circular economy.

Preserving resources

Given the growing tension surrounding resources, it is everyone’s collective responsibility to conserve and protect them. Resources that are less intensively consumed, better used and less damaged are resources that will still be available in the future. Veolia therefore develops innovative and sustainable solutions so that it extracts only what is strictly necessary, from the right place, at the right time and using the right methods. At the same time, it protects the balance of ecosystems to ensure resources remain available. Veolia uses its expertise to optimize the use of these resources, to make sure nothing is lost throughout the usage cycle and to minimize any downstream impact so as to guarantee there are no harmful effects on human health or the natural environment.

Replenishing resources

By reinventing its business activities, Veolia is making it possible to create new secondary resources that are gradually offsetting the growing scarcity of natural primary materials. Through innovation in recycling materials and recovering waste, Veolia is providing solutions that significantly extend the life span and usage value of extracted resources. To close the loop of the circular economy, Veolia is developing its eco-design expertise to support producers right from the initial steps in creating manufacturing processes through to the production of new materials from transformed waste.

Lastly, in each of its business areas - and even more so at their interfaces - Veolia is generating entirely new resources: the heat given off by an industry becomes heating for dwellings; wastewater effluent becomes a fertilizer or a bioplastic; gas emitted by waste treatment becomes electricity or biofuel, and so on.

For more than 160 years Veolia has provided local authorities and industries with the water management, waste-management and energy services vital to human development and sustainable performance.

Structure

Veolia Water's wastewater treatment plant in Portugal

Veolia Environnement's largest shareholders include the Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Groupe industriel Marcel Dassault, Groupama and Électricité de France.

Veolia Eau (Veolia Water)

Veolia Water (Paris) is a water and wastewater treatment company (supplies drinking water to approximately 103 million people and treats wastewater for over 70 million people) with over 96.5 thousand employees and sales of over 12.6 billion Euro (2011). Veolia Water is present in 69 markets in Europe (France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Turkey and Armenia), East Asia and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore), Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East (South Africa, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Benin, Gabon, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Niger, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar and India), the Americas (USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador). Veolia Water's most important subsidiaries include Sade, Veolia Eau Solutions et Technologies, Seureca, Setude, SEDE Environnement, SIDEF and Azaliya Water Services.

Veolia Propreté

Veolia Propreté (Nanterre) collects, treats and manages domestic and industrial waste (serves more than 60 million inhabitants and over 800,000 corporate customers and operates 763 recycling and incineration facilities) with approximately 77,500 employees and sales of over 9.7 billion Euro (2011). Veolia Propreté is present in the markets of Europe (France, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Lithuania and Estonia), America (USA, Canada and Mexico), East Asia and Oceania (China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Australia), Africa and the Middle East (Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Israel and Qatar).

Veolia Énergie (Dalkia)

Veolia Énergie (Saint-André-les-Lilles) is a power, heating and hot water production and distribution company (operates 800 networks, including 44 cooling networks) with 49,800 employees and sales of 8.9 billion euros (2012). Veolia Énergie is a joint venture between Veolia Environnement (66%) and Électricité de France (34%). Veolia Environnement is present on 35 markets in Europe (France, UK, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Ireland, Luxembourg), America (USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile), the Middle East, East Asia and Oceania (Israel, UAE, Bahrain, China, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia).

Veolia Transdev (Transdev)

Veolia Transdev (Issy-les-Moulineaux) was a major operator of railway transportation and urban public transport (buses, streetcars, suburban trains, metro, boats, ferries and bicycles) with over 100,000 employees and a turnover of almost €7.9 billion in 2011 and €8.2 billion in 2012. The Group was formed in 2011 through the merger of Veolia Transport and Transdev, was restructured and renamed Transdev in spring 2013, the main shareholders were Caisse des dépôts et consignations (60%) and Veolia Environnement (40%). According to the company's crisis exit plan, Veolia Environnement planned to withdraw from Transdev's shareholders, and Transdev itself pledged to sell off about a quarter of its European assets, as well as withdraw from 10 of the 27 countries in which it was present.