Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures

With its finger on the pulse of the world’s major developments, Legrand is strategically positioned at the heart of the markets of the future. The Legrand group makes close to 30% of its sales in emerging countries, a share that is bound to grow as these countries grow in strength.

In 2009, Legrand made approximately 60% of its sales in the commercial and industrial business sectors. In mature countries, 60% of sales are in the maintenance and renovation markets.

Legrand’s electrical and digital infrastructures market is valued at approximately 60 billion euros.

A two-fold ambition for sustainable growth

The Group’s positioning on a single core business enables it to pursue a two-fold ambition: to strengthen its leading position on the markets for electrical and digital infrastructures for buildings, and to become the reference for smart electrical systems and services with innovative, highly energy-efficient solutions.

A global business

The Legrand Group operates globally, holding leading positions in at least one business area on key markets: including France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Great Britain, United States, Mexico, Brazil, China and Australia
This powerful position on these markets gives Legrand major competitive advantages, such as:

• The ability to sell products that are suitable for the majority of national markets on which the professional work practices of the installers, like the tastes of the consumers, can vary a great deal, and where specific standards often govern the product itself as well as its operation and installation.
• The ability to offer its customers - in particular in the form of integrated systems - virtually all the products needed for an electrical installation, from the circuit protection panel through to the connection of the low current socket outlets, thus avoiding them the costs, risks and delays associated with buying products from different suppliers.
• The ability to benefit from consumers’, installers’ and distributors’ familiarity with and trust in the products for which Legrand is the market leader, in order to improve its position on products for which the Group is only a challenger, and thus promote its growth.