Histoire dEntreprises

What Histoire dEntreprises does

Histoire d'Entreprises is a French professional services agency founded in 1999 and headquartered in Lyon, with a secondary office in Paris. The firm specializes in heritage valorization — the documentation, storytelling, and communication of the historical, technical, cultural, and human heritage of companies, brands, and institutions. Its deliverables are turnkey editorial projects including corporate history books, dedicated websites, physical and virtual exhibitions, documentary films, editorial funds, oral memory collection, consulting missions, training modules, reference narratives, webinar animations, and social media event valorization. The agency is structured as a SARL with a small team of 8 consultants and operates with a flat, founder-led organizational model.

The agency's underlying methodology pairs academic rigor — exercised through an interdisciplinary team of historians, art historians, information engineers, publishing specialists, museologists, archivists, and filmmakers — with operational creativity. Notable enterprise clients include Serge Ferrari, Dehon, ODDO BHF, Laboratoire Gattefossé, Martell, Anny Blatt, Innothéra, Groupe REEL, Bic, Salomon, Groupe Ortec, and Institut Curie. The firm monetizes exclusively through project-based, custom-quoted engagements delivered clés en main, with no publicly disclosed pricing or subscription model.

Beyond client work, Histoire d'Entreprises operates the Institut pour l'Histoire d'Entreprise as a thought-leadership and pipeline-building platform, encompassing a 12-issue magazine collection, a podcast, a monthly newsletter, and academic interventions at universities and business schools. The agency markets primarily through direct engagement with enterprise communications and heritage teams, supplemented by LinkedIn and Instagram presence. There is no disclosed use of AI/ML in core delivery, no proprietary software product, and no external funding; the firm is self-funded founder-operated.

Name

Histoire dEntreprises

Legal name

Histoire d'entreprises

Website

https://histoire-entreprises.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Histoire d'Entreprises is a Lyon- and Paris-based heritage valorization agency founded in 1999 that produces books, exhibitions, films, and editorial projects for large French enterprises and institutions seeking to document and communicate their corporate history.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Heritage Communications

NAICS

Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts, Culture & Literary Magazines (MPAJAEAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Libraries, Archives & Special Collections (BPAGAHAF), Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAE), Qualitative Research (Focus Groups, IDIs, Ethnography) (MPAAALAE)

Keywords

• Corporate heritage communications
• Company history publishing
• Editorial heritage services
• Brand storytelling agency
• Institutional memory services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lyon

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Project-based editorial services: Turnkey editorial projects including books, exhibitions, films, dedicated websites, editorial funds, oral memory collection, consulting missions, training modules, reference narratives, webinar animations, and social media event valorization.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Histoire d'Entreprises is a specialized communications and editorial agency that helps companies, brands, and institutions valorize their historical, technical, cultural, and human heritage. It delivers turnkey (clés en main) editorial projects—books, dedicated websites, exhibitions, documentary films, editorial funds, oral memory collection—alongside consulting missions, training modules, reference narratives, webinar animations, and social media event valorization, executed by a multidisciplinary team of historians, art historians, information engineers, publishing specialists, museologists, archivists, and filmmakers.

Product overview

Histoire d'Entreprises operates as a single unified agency offering comprehensive heritage valorization services rather than a software platform with discrete products. The core offering centers on editorial services—books, dedicated websites, exhibitions, films, editorial funds, and oral memory collection—all delivered as turnkey projects. The Institut pour l'Histoire d'Entreprise sub-brand encompasses pedagogical initiatives including a magazine collection (12 downloadable issues) and a podcast series. All services are performed by a multidisciplinary team of historians, art historians, information engineers, publishing specialists, museologists, archivists, and filmmakers based in Paris and Lyon.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Institut pour l'Histoire d'Entreprise: The umbrella initiative under which Histoire d'Entreprises groups all its initiatives to promote and defend the discipline of corporate history, including a magazine, podcast, and educational content.

Products and services

• Livres d'histoire et de culture

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Ketchum: Global public relations and communications agency with corporate and brand storytelling capabilities. Serves many of the same enterprise categories (luxury, healthcare, finance) targeted by Histoire d'Entreprises.
• Edelman: World's largest PR firm with deep enterprise and corporate-stakeholder practice. Represents an alternative supplier for brand storytelling, institutional narrative and stakeholder engagement mandates.
• Havas: Global communications group offering PR, advertising and content services at scale. Represents the broad incumbent alternative that enterprise clients may consider when sourcing heritage communications work.
• Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW): Global PR and communications agency with enterprise, healthcare and brand practices. Competes for the same corporate communications and brand heritage budgets at large multinational clients.
• Publicis Groupe: Global advertising and communications holding company with significant PR and content capabilities. Competes for enterprise communications budgets and could subsume corporate heritage work within broader agency mandates.

Direct peers

• History Factory: US-headquartered corporate heritage agency producing anniversary books, films, archives and editorial content for large enterprises. Direct comparable in service offering, target customer (Fortune 500/enterprise) and bespoke heritage deliverable model.
• Working Histories: UK-based consultancy specialized in corporate history, oral history and heritage storytelling for institutional clients. Closely matches Histoire d'Entreprises' focus on academic-grade historical research combined with operational editorial output.
• Mulberry Heritage Consulting: Corporate heritage and anniversary communications consultancy serving enterprise and family-owned businesses. Comparable in delivering heritage documentation, anniversary programming and editorial projects for corporate clients.

Regional players

• B The Dialogue: European-focused communications and content agency with corporate publishing and stakeholder engagement capabilities. Comparable in serving European enterprise clients seeking sophisticated editorial output.

Emerging players

• Wavelength: Branding and content agency with corporate publishing and branded editorial capabilities. Offers partial overlap with Histoire d'Entreprises' editorial and brand heritage production work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/histoire-d'entreprises
• Instagraminstagram.com/histoiredentreprises

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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