Group | 05.18.2020
Legrand, global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures, announces the launch of its social wall dedicated to the COVID19 crisis.
WEPs | 03.09.2020
On International Women Rights Day, Legrand reasserts its commitment to gender equality by supporting the Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs) defined by UN Women and Global Compact.
| 02.27.2020 08:00
Building on its growth momentum through the acquisition of front-runners, Legrand today announced the purchase of Focal Point, strengthening solid positions in specification-grade architectural lighting solutions for commercial buildings in the United States.
Group | 02.13.2020
As an inclusive company, Legrand attended the second edition of the autre cercle – Ifop held on February 12, 2020 in Paris.
Group | 01.28.2020
Since June 2019, Legrand, and six other partners representing the whole construction value chain, has joined Sekoya: Eiffage Group and Impulse Partners’ initiative to bring their expertise in carbon emission reduction and promote the use of carbon-free solutions.
CES 2020 | 01.06.2020
Legrand takes part in CES (Consumer Electronic Show). All the teams are very proud to show new connected experiences.
CES 2020 | 01.06.2020
Legrand is taking part in Unveiled at CES2020 in Las Vegas to announce Drivia with Netatmo: its first smart electrical panel for the residential sector.
Group | 11.19.2019
Each year since 2011, EcoAct* has established a ranking of climate reporting performance among component stock companies of stock market indices including France’s CAC 40, the FTSE 100 in the UK, the Spanish IBEX 35 and the DOW 30 in the US.
Group | 10.30.2019
This policy is mainly structured around 5 objectives: gender diversity, inclusivity towards people with disabilities, intergenerational collaboration, Social and cultural diversity, inclusion of LGBT+ people.
group | 10.14.2019
The award was handed over on October 2nd, 2019 in Paris to Emmanuelle Levine, Group General Counsel.
This award is attributed annually by Labrador, the specialist of regulated communication, since 2008 on the basis of an assessment grid designed by an independent scientific committee, comprising 205 criteria.
Group | 08.29.2019
Benoît Coquart, CEO, signed the French Climate Pledge on August 29th 2019, in the framework of the Rencontre des Entrepreneurs de France (LaREF), strengthening Legrand’s historically strong commitment to limiting the impact of its activities on the environment.
To encourage and accelerate innovation, the only possible response to the emergence of new needs and technological developments is for Legrand to multiply its collaborative projects.
This is why the Group works with the scientific, business and educational communities.
Legrand participates in collaborative research projects and works within competitiveness clusters or technology transfer centres.
It also cooperates with start-ups and SMEs in various forms (collaborative research or development projects, partnerships, acquisition of stakes), which contributes to leading the sector in particular into innovative areas offering many opportunities, such as the Silver Economy, comfort and well-being, access to electricity, energy efficiency, security in buildings, electric vehicles, connected devices, and digital networks.
The group is also widely involved in the educational world through partnerships with training establishments, regular exchanges with engineering schools, and support for the creation of new specialist courses.
This shared innovation initiative allows it to accelerate its development and support progress across the whole electrical sector.
7 new partnerships and significant collaborative projects undertaken in 2016.
Continue developing university partnerships and collaborative research projects, and implementing the resulting innovations.
Since the launch of Eliot, Legrand has become involved in many partnerships to promote interoperability between connected products in the building sector. Legrand works with the American company Nest Inc. to use the Nest Weave protocol in certain products.
Legrand has also entered into an international technological partnership with Samsung, to develop solutions that improve the control and comfort of hotel rooms.
Finally, Legrand has partnered with La Poste to make its connected offers compatible with La Poste's digital hub.
Since late 2015, Legrand's Brazilian subsidiary SMS has been working with the Instituto de Tecnologia Reconcavo, a research institute based in Sao Paolo
Aim of the partnership: to extend the remote management of connected UPS* units by developing an application which can control all of an installation's connected UPSs from a single point using a smartphone.
The benefit of the partnership lies in the technological expertise, proximity and speed.
* * UPSs (Uninterruptible Power Supplies) are systems that guarantee the continuity of the electrical power supply to buildings.
