Patte Blanche
Patte Blanche is a French RSE communication and consulting agency, founded in 2007 in Montpellier, that helps large enterprises, public institutions, and NGOs build credible sustainability strategies, engage employees, and comply with CSRD through strategic communication and storytelling services.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2007
- HeadquartersMontpellier, France
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingServices
What Patte Blanche does
Patte Blanche SAS is a French hybrid consulting and communication agency founded in 2007 in Montpellier and specializing in RSE (Corporate Social Responsibility) communication. The company serves large enterprises (L'Oréal, Jacquet Brossard, Edilians, Saverglass, FORVIA, Patagonia, Groupe V33), public institutions (Région Occitanie/AREC, Apec, Parc naturel régional des Ballons des Vosges), and NGOs, helping them build credible sustainability strategies, comply with CSRD regulations, engage employees, and avoid greenwashing through authentic storytelling. Its service portfolio spans five expertise areas: strategic transformation, storytelling and engagement, inspiration and mobilization, brand meaning, and citizen awareness — delivered via project-based professional services contracts won through direct sales, calls for tenders (appels d'offres), and referrals.
The agency's core product is RSE consulting and communication services, supplemented by a proprietary free digital diagnostic tool called AutoDiag Com'RSE (co-developed with Mathieu Jahnich) that evaluates RSE communication maturity across three dimensions in under 10 minutes. Beyond client work, Patte Blanche operates an ecosystem of impact initiatives: The Island tiers-lieu (co-working space for social entrepreneurs, founded 2015), Festival 2030 (8-year territorial engagement program co-founded 2023 with Pioche and Pléiade), Les Rencontres Vivantes community platform, L'Île des Possibles association, and the quarterly Complice newsletter. Pricing is project-based and custom-quoted; no public pricing exists.
The business model is professional services revenue with no disclosed pricing transparency, a sales-led GTM motion targeting enterprises and institutions, augmented by event-driven demand generation (Produrable conference presence) and community-led reputation building through B Corp and impact entrepreneur networks. In October 2024, Patte Blanche was acquired by Bonum Group — an independent European marketing and communication group operating across 4 countries with 8 offices — with Bonum's founder Déborah Berger assuming the presidency. The agency holds a B Corp certification (107/200 in 2023) and has a team of approximately 14 specialists across its Montpellier headquarters and Paris office.
Patte Blanche firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Patte Blanche
- Legal name
- Patte Blanche SAS
- Website
- https://patte-blanche.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2007
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Patte Blanche is a French RSE communication and consulting agency, founded in 2007 in Montpellier, that helps large enterprises, public institutions, and NGOs build credible sustainability strategies, engage employees, and comply with CSRD through strategic communication and storytelling services.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Patte Blanche industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Sustainability & RSE Communication Services
- NAICS
- Advertising Agencies (541810), Public Relations Agencies (54182)
- SIC
- Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Environmental, Climate & Sustainability Standards & Reporting Cooperation (BPADANAI)
Keywords
Where Patte Blanche is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Montpellier
- HQ country
- France
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices2 records
Markets served
Patte Blanche business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Services
- Cost components
- Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Strategic RSE Consulting: Advisory services helping organizations develop and structure their RSE strategies, including diagnostic assessments, roadmap development, and CSRD compliance support.
- RSE Communication Campaigns: Design and deployment of communication campaigns focused on sustainability, environmental awareness, and social engagement for corporate clients and institutions.
- Internal Communication & Employer Branding: Services helping clients engage employees around RSE initiatives, including internal campaigns, solidarity days, and cultural transformation programs.
- RSE Reporting & Storytelling: Creation of RSE reports, impact narratives, and brand storytelling to help clients communicate their sustainability commitments authentically.
Go-to-market motion3 records
Distribution channels4 records
Marketing channels8 records
Patte Blanche product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Patte Blanche is a French communication agency dedicated to RSE (Corporate Social Responsibility) that helps enterprises, institutions, and associations design and execute sustainability strategies, stakeholder engagement campaigns, RSE reporting, CSRD compliance support, and brand storytelling. The agency also operates proprietary initiatives such as the AutoDiag Com'RSE diagnostic tool, Festival 2030, and The Island co-working space.
Product overview
Patte Blanche is a hybrid consulting and communication agency specializing in RSE (Corporate Social Responsibility), offering both project-based consulting services and proprietary tools and initiatives. Its core service offering spans RSE strategy, storytelling, engagement, and mobilization — delivered across five expertises: strategic transformation, storytelling and engagement, inspiration and mobilization, brand meaning, and citizen awareness. Alongside client services, Patte Blanche operates a portfolio of impact initiatives: AutoDiag Com'RSE (a free digital diagnostic tool for evaluating RSE communication maturity, built on Typeform), Festival 2030 (a 7-year cultural engagement experience), The Island (a third-place for social entrepreneurs), Les Rencontres Vivantes (a national influence community), L'île des Possibles (a sensitization association), La Bascule (a civic lobbying initiative), and the Complice quarterly newsletter. The agency joined Bonum Group in October 2024, which now includes Adfinitas and Citizen Press under its umbrella.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- AutoDiag Com'RSE: A free digital diagnostic tool to evaluate the maturity and performance of RSE communication, developed by Patte Blanche in collaboration with Mathieu Jahnich.
- Festival 2030
- The Island
Products and services
- RSE Consulting & Communication Services Full suite of RSE consulting and communication services including RSE strategy diagnostics, COMEX awareness training, CSE strategy development, labeling support, CSRD compliance, storytelling and narratives, RSE reports, responsible communication audits, brand content, corporate communication, conferences, RSE events, internal communication, and employer brand \u2014 delivered as a hybrid consultancy across five expertises.
- AutoDiag Com'RSE Free digital diagnostic tool that enables Communication and RSE teams to evaluate the maturity and performance of their RSE communication in under 10 minutes, delivering a personalized assessment via 8 animal totem profiles across three dimensions: strategy robustness, engagement communication impact, and responsibility of messaging.
- Festival 2030 Territorial engagement experience structured around a prologue to reopen imaginaries, 6 acts for commitment, and a conclusion to measure impact \u2014 bringing together institutions, businesses, and citizens for a more resilient territory through culture.
- The Island Third-place (tiers lieu) co-working space in Montpellier (and Guyane since 2017) dedicated to social entrepreneurs and exploration. Federates multiple impact projects (La Fabrique des Possibles, Open, ComForGood) and creates an environment of RSE, regenerative economy, and citizen mobilization experts.
- Complice Newsletter Quarterly newsletter exploring transition topics with analysis and perspectives on sustainability and ecological/social transition, distributed to subscribers as part of Patte Blanche's thought leadership content.
Quantifiable outcome
- 97.3% of clients recommend Patte Blanche
- +2 more outcomes
Companies that use Patte Blanche
Customer profileNamed customers14 records
Segments4 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
Patte Blanche technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature1 record
Patte Blanche partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Bonum GroupcorePatte Blanche joined Bonum Group in October 2024, an independent European marketing and communication group focused on interest general causes and positive impact projects. Bonum Group operates in 4 countries with 8 offices, including agencies like Adfinitas and Citizen Press. Deborah Berger, founder of Bonum Group, became the new president of Patte Blanche, succeeding David Coste.
- Pioche & Pléiade ProductioncoreCo-founded the 2030 Festival in 2023 alongside media company Pioche and production agency Pléiade. The 8-year territorial engagement experience brings together companies, institutions, and citizens around cultural events focused on transition and commitment.
- Mathieu JahnichcoreCo-developed AutoDiag Com'RSE, a free digital diagnostic tool that evaluates RSE communication maturity. Mathieu Jahnich is an expert in responsible communication who shared the conviction with Patte Blanche that a simple tool was needed to help Communication and RSE departments understand each other better.
- La Fabrique des PossiblesminorCo-founded L'île des Possibles association in May 2022, which works to accelerate transition in the Montpellier territory through workshops, inspiring encounters, and event organization. Has already reached over 2,300 people.
- Open Lande MontpellierminorMember of the Open Lande network (based at The Island), whose mission is to repair the Earth and humans through training on transition challenges in companies.
- David Coste & Stéphanie AmpartminorCo-develop and animate Les Rencontres Vivantes since 2022, an intimate, hybrid, influential community that amplifies engagements for the Living. These encounters propose new activism pathways and emerging utopias.
- Satellite AgencyminorCo-traitant partner on Rénov'Occitanie project for audiovisual production.
- GoodBuyMediaminorCo-traitant partner on Rénov'Occitanie project for media strategy and planning.
- TennaxiaminorCollaborated with Tennaxia RSE consulting firm on Groupe V33's first RSE strategy development through workshops and interviews with CoDir members.
- Good Buy Media & SatelliteminorPartners on PNR Ballons des Vosges 'Quiétude attitude' campaign for media strategy and video production.
- Agence VuminorPartner for photography production with Cyril Zanettacci for Saverglass RSE report.
- Brainchild & Sipa PressminorPartners for international photo and video reportages (USA, Czech Republic, India, France, Mexico) for FORVIA Foundation.
- FastProd, Cap & Cime, DentsuminorProduction partners for ARCA coffee capsule recycling awareness campaign including films, advertising, and media.
- Unis-Cité & Séquences ClésminorPartners for Apec Solidarity Day: Unis-Cité for mobilization webinar, Séquences Clés for photo/video capture of activities.
- TroaminorPartner for Sailcoop website development.
- OVEAminorWebsite hosting provider based in Montpellier (59 rue Nelson Mandela, 34070 Montpellier).
Scale indicators12 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights5 records
Patte Blanche competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- BeCitizen: Sustainability consulting firm specialized in CSR strategy and reporting for companies, with comparable expertise in CSRD-aligned advisory and impact communication for French and European clients.
- Greenflex: French sustainability and energy transition consultancy serving large enterprises with CSR strategy, carbon assessment, and reporting services, competing in the same RSE advisory market.
- SustainAbility: International sustainability strategy and communications advisory helping companies develop credible ESG strategies, reports, and stakeholder engagement programs with comparable scope to Patte Blanche's strategy and reporting practice.
- Utopies: French sustainability consultancy and think tank advising corporations on RSE strategy, CSR reporting, and sustainable transformation, directly overlapping with Patte Blanche's strategic transformation and RSE advisory expertise.
- Futerra: UK-based sustainability communications agency specialized in climate, social, and ESG storytelling for brands, providing comparable creative RSE communications expertise internationally.
Broad incumbents
- APCO Worldwide: Global advisory and communications firm with a strong sustainability and ESG practice providing strategic CSR counsel to Fortune 500 companies and public institutions.
- Havas Paris: French arm of global advertising group Havas, with sustainability communication capabilities serving enterprise clients across sectors including sustainability campaigns and impact reporting.
- Edelman: Global PR firm with a dedicated sustainability and purpose practice (Edelman Trust Barometer) competing with Patte Blanche on large enterprise ESG communication mandates and corporate reporting.
- FleishmanHillard: Global PR and communications agency with a sustainability and ESG practice that serves large multinational clients on impact storytelling, corporate responsibility, and CSR reporting.
- Publicis Groupe: Global advertising and communications group with sustainability-focused practices (Publicis Conseil, Leo Burnett, MSL) competing for major French and European RSE communication mandates at scale.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks3 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
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Patte Blanche leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles10 records
Patte Blanche funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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Patte Blanche M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about Patte Blanche
What does Patte Blanche do?
Patte Blanche is a French communication agency dedicated to RSE (Corporate Social Responsibility) that helps enterprises, institutions, and associations design and execute sustainability strategies, stakeholder engagement campaigns, RSE reporting, CSRD compliance support, and brand storytelling. The agency also operates proprietary initiatives such as the AutoDiag Com'RSE diagnostic tool, Festival 2030, and The Island co-working space.
Is Patte Blanche a public or private company?
Patte Blanche is a private company. It is classified as corporate owned and is currently operating.
When was Patte Blanche founded?
Patte Blanche was founded in 2007. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Patte Blanche based?
Patte Blanche is headquartered in Montpellier, France, in the Europe region.
How does Patte Blanche make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Strategic RSE Consulting is the primary driver. The others are RSE Communication Campaigns, internal Communication & Employer Branding and RSE Reporting & Storytelling.
Who are Patte Blanche's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are BeCitizen, Greenflex, SustainAbility, Utopies and Futerra. Broad incumbents are APCO Worldwide, Havas Paris, Edelman, FleishmanHillard and Publicis Groupe.
Does Patte Blanche have an API?
No public API is recorded for Patte Blanche.
What industry is Patte Blanche in?
Patte Blanche's product category is Sustainability & RSE Communication Services. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPADANAI, Environmental, Climate & Sustainability Standards & Reporting Cooperation. Its NAICS code is 541810 and its SIC code is 7311.