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LEGRAND ESSENTIALS
Legrand is the specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructure
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital infrastructures, offering high-value-added products and solutions for commercial, residential and industrial buildings. Every day Legrand works hard to enhance electrical and digital building infrastructures and help develop connected buildings around the world.
Its technological expertise, its leading positions, the scope of its offering, its international presence and the power of its brands combine to make Legrand a global reference. With a presence in nearly 90 countries and a workforce of around 39,000 employees, Legrand generated total sales of over €6.6 billion in 2019.
A comprehensive range of solutions for buildings
Legrand offers a wide range of more than 300,000 product lines and solutions that are straightforward, innovative and sustainable.
Group solutions are installed in spaces where people live (individual and collective housing, hotels, etc.), work (offices, datacenters, industrial sites etc.) and meet (shops, hospitals, schools and universities etc.).
Worldwide, our catalogs offer more than 100 product categories to:
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“We are inextricably linked to changes in technology and society, and we’re helping to drive the connected building revolution by developing solutions that make buildings simpler, more comfortable, more interactive and more sustainable.”
- control electrical installations (switches, user interfaces, etc.);
- make power available (domestic and industrial power sockets, USB connectors, etc.);
- supply power to workstations (mobile or flush-mounted sockets,floor boxes, etc.);
- provide a secure, stable and optimized power supply (Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), transformers, harmonic filters, etc.);
- protect electrical installations (residential or power protection panels, circuit-breakers, etc.);
- ensure the flow of electricity through buildings (cable management, busbar trunking etc.);
- secure buildings (intrusion alarms, access controls, technical alarms, smart locks);
- welcome and screen visitors (audio and video door-entry systems, doorbells, etc.);
- regulate temperature and sunlight (thermostats, shutter controls, etc.);
- recharge electric vehicles (kits, sockets and recharging stations, etc.);
- provide structured cabling (cabinets and enclosures, patching racks, copper and fiber-optic connectors, etc.);
- organize a datacenter’s white-space infrastructure (Power Distribution Units (PDU), cabinets and racks, busways, etc.);
- command lighting control systems (detectors, lighting control systems, specification-grade architectural lighting for commercial buildings, etc.);
- distribute audio and video signals (support systems, video-conferencing solutions, etc.);
- ensure that people can move around buildings and exit them safely (emergency lighting, pathway marking solutions);
- provide assisted living solutions (personal alarm systems, sockets for easy unplugging, etc.);
- measure and control power consumption (smart electrical panels, eco-meters, load-shedding devices, etc.);
- remotely control and manage all infrastructure and systems in homes and all kinds of smart buildings.
A global player
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 nearly 180 countries.
In addition, Legrand holds leading positions in countries such as France, Italy and the United States—Legrand’s No. 1 market since 2015. In 2019, around two-thirds of Group sales came from products that rank first or second in their markets.
Key Figures
Nearly €6.6 billion in total sales in 2019
Around 39,000 employees
3 markets:
- Commercial
- Residential
- Industrial
Established in nearly 90 countries
Around 85% of total sales generated by international markets
One mission: support the building revolution
The electrical revolution. The digital revolution. The connected revolution.
As a market leader, Legrand plans to support the evolution of electrical and digital infrastructures for buildings by offering innovative, connected, interoperable, highly energy-efficient solutions that deliver real benefits for users—all while strengthening its leadership positions across a wide range of markets.
With its workforce of some 39,000 employees, Legrand works hard to offer innovative solutions that transform spaces no matter where they are, making life better for users at work and at home.
Through time
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. In over 150 years, Legrand has changed in profound ways—from porcelain to electrical components, from wiring devices to infrastructure, and from electrical to digital technology.
Today the Group is harnessing the same capacity for successful adaptation to stake out positions in the smart building market. And even products that are more conventional—such as power sockets and distribution panels—are becoming increasingly interactive.
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