Département de Maine-et-Loire

What Département de Maine-et-Loire does

The Département de Maine-et-Loire is a French territorial collectivity (collectivité territoriale) established in 1790 and headquartered at the Hôtel du Département on Boulevard Foch in Angers. As a decentralized public administration entity, it holds statutory responsibility for core departmental missions across the 177 communes of the Maine-et-Loire department, serving 820,000 inhabitants through a workforce of 2,800 agents. Its service portfolio spans child protection and family support (ASE, adoption, early childhood), care for elderly and disabled residents, employment integration through RSA, management of 67 public colleges, maintenance of 7,800 km of departmental roads, environmental conservation, and a sizable cultural program.

The Department's product surface is organized around its main portal (maine-et-loire.fr), powered by a privacy-first open-source technology stack: TYPO3 CMS for content, Matomo for analytics, OpenStreetMap for mapping, and Sarbacane plus Sendinblue for newsletter distribution. Beyond the main portal, it operates specialized services including the BiblioPôle library network (242,000 documents to 232 conventioned libraries and 300 mobile stops), the opendata49 open-data platform, the recrutement.maine-et-loire.fr hiring portal, the collectivites.maine-et-loire.fr portal for municipal assistance, and transactional services such as online payment and administrative document access. Sub-brands include BiblioPôle, Anjou Synergie, Jeune Pousse (literacy for newborns) and Team Anjou. Flagship cultural assets include the Festival d'Anjou (76th edition, 700,000+ spectators across five venues) and the 45 km of Archives départementales.

Revenue is not generated commercially. The entity is funded through local taxation (property and vehicle taxes), allocations from the French central government, and statutory mechanisms, then deployed across social welfare, infrastructure, education, and culture. Its customers are mandatorily the residents and 177 communes of Maine-et-Loire; service relationships are governed by law rather than commercial contracts, and pricing is delivered free at point of use with means-tested contributions in select cases.

Name

Département de Maine-et-Loire

Legal name

Département de Maine-et-Loire

Website

https://maine-et-loire.fr

Company type

Public

Founded year

1790

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Département de Maine-et-Loire is a French territorial collectivity headquartered in Angers, providing statutory public services including child welfare, elderly care, college education, road maintenance, and cultural programs to 820,000 inhabitants across 177 communes.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Government Public Administration

NAICS

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (921), Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development (9251), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

State/Provincial Human Services & Benefits Administration (Welfare, Disability, Child & Family) (BPAIABAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

State/Provincial Education Department Administration (BPAIABAJ), Local Education Authorities & Municipal Education Offices (EDADABAD)

Keywords

• Public administration services
• Departmental government services
• Social action programs
• Education infrastructure
• Cultural heritage management

Headquarters

HQ city

Angers

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Public taxation and government funding: As a French departmental council (collectivité territoriale), the Department of Maine-et-Loire is funded through local taxation (property tax, vehicle tax, etc.) and allocations from the French central government. Revenue is allocated to public service delivery including social welfare, infrastructure, education, and culture.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

The Département de Maine-et-Loire is a French territorial collectivity that delivers statutory public administration services to 820,000 inhabitants across 177 communes. Its core offerings span social action (aide sociale à l'enfance, adoption, elderly and disability support), college-level education (offre éducative des collèges), cultural programming (Festival d'Anjou, Créations d'Anjou), departmental road infrastructure, archives, and direct support to municipalities and intercommunal bodies (EPCI) through the collectivites.maine-et-loire.fr portal.

Product overview

The Département de Maine-et-Loire is a French local government institution providing public services to approximately 820,000 inhabitants across 177 communes. Rather than a unified technology product, it offers a portfolio of service portals and programs centered around its main website (maine-et-loire.fr). The service portfolio spans child welfare (ASE/Adoption access), education (middle school management, educational programs), autonomy care (elderly and disabled support), infrastructure (departmental roads), environmental services, and cultural programs. Key digital products include: an open data portal (opendata49), BiblioPôle library network service, Festival d'Anjou, Créations d'Anjou artistic creation program, newsletter and RSS services, online payment systems, administrative document access, and a mediateur service for dispute resolution. The Department operates specialized portals including recrutement.maine-et-loire.fr for employment and collectivites.maine-et-loire.fr for local authority support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• BiblioPôle: Departmental library network providing document lending and library support services to 232 libraries in Maine-et-Loire.
• Team Anjou
• Anjou Synergie
• Jeune Pousse

Products and services

• Accès aux documents administratifs
• Saisir le Médiateur
• Paiement en ligne
• Consulter son dossier personnel ASE/Adoption
• Assistance aux communes et EPCI
• Marchés publics
• Open Data du Département
• Offre éducative des collèges
• BiblioPôle
• Festival d'Anjou
• Créations d'Anjou
• Archives départementales
• Collégiale Saint-Martin
• Enseignements artistiques
• Jeune Pousse
• Anjou Synergie
• Lanceurs d'alerte
• Newsletter du Département

Quantifiable outcome

• 340 classes registered for educational programs
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration18 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Préfecture de Maine-et-LoirecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Préfecture (government representative in the department) collaborates with the Department on the Anjou Synergie network for local government support, shared events and training, and administrative modernization initiatives including the ACTES dematerialization platform for legal control procedures.
• AMF 49 (Association des Maires et Présidents de communautés de Maine-et-Loire)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe AMF 49 partners with the Department on the Anjou Synergie network to provide a unified platform for events and training for local government officials across Maine-et-Loire's 177 communes.
• Fédération viticole Anjou – SaumurminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for the Maison du Vin d'Anjou, managed by the wine federation, serving as the gateway for wine tourism and local wine appreciation in Anjou.
• Ministère de la Culture (dispositif Premières pages)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Department participates in the national Premières pages program initiated by the Ministry of Culture, providing free books to newborns as part of the 'Jeune pousse' operation.
• Festival d'Anjou organizerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorThe Department is the primary funder of the Festival d'Anjou, supporting 700,000+ annual spectators and providing access to prestigious venues including the Grand-Théâtre and Quai in Angers, Château du Plessis-Macé, and Dôme de Saumur.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Conseil régional des Pays de la Loire: Regional government authority overlapping with Maine-et-Loire on competencies such as cultural programming, transportation, and economic development — operates at a broader geographic scale (5 départements) above the departmental level.

Direct peers

• Département de la Vendée: Pays de la Loire regional peer operating with identical statutory missions over social welfare, education infrastructure, and roads. Similar headcount and digital service delivery model.
• Département de la Gironde: Major French département with comparable statutory missions over social services, education infrastructure, and cultural programming; serves a larger metropolitan area around Bordeaux.
• Département des Bouches-du-Rhône: Major Mediterranean departmental council with identical statutory competencies (ASE, RSA, college management, roads) and similar decentralized physical service network.
• Département de Loire-Atlantique: Neighboring French département in the same Pays de la Loire region with comparable statutory mandate for social services, college management, and road infrastructure. Operates at similar scale with overlapping service portfolio.
• Département de la Sarthe: Adjacent French département offering the same statutory services (ASE, RSA, college management, departmental roads) to a comparable population in the Pays de la Loire region.
• Département du Nord: Large French département exercising identical statutory responsibilities (social welfare, college administration, departmental roads) and operating a similar decentralized delivery network via Maisons du Département.
• Département d'Ille-et-Vilaine: Large French départemental council serving a similarly-sized population (~1M inhabitants) in Brittany with the same statutory competencies around child protection, college management, and road maintenance.
• Département du Finistère: Brittany-based departmental council exercising the same statutory missions over child welfare, elderly care, colleges, and roads across a comparable number of communes.

Regional players

• Mairie d'Angers: Municipal government for Maine-et-Loire's capital city, exercising complementary statutory competencies (local urban planning, primary schools, local policing). Operates in the same territory with overlapping citizen base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/departementdemaineetloire
• Facebookfacebook.com/Departement49
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/d%C3%A9partement-de-maine-et-loire
• Instagraminstagram.com/Maine_et_Loire
• Xx.com/maine_et_loire

Compliance1 record

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