CDC Coeur de Saintonge

What CDC Coeur de Saintonge does

Communauté de Communes Cœur de Saintonge (CDC) is a French Établissement Public de Coopération Intercommunale (EPCI) — a public intercommunal administrative body — created on December 30, 1993, and headquartered in Saint-Porchaire, Charente-Maritime. It unites 18 communes covering approximately 17,775 inhabitants in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, pooling resources to deliver shared administrative services that individual communes could not provide independently. Its service scope spans a France Services single-window office for administrative procedures, waste management (delegated to the CYCLAD syndicate since December 2016), childhood and youth services (daycare, after-school, vacation activities) supported by an online family portal, environmental and Natura 2000 stewardship, urban planning, economic development zones, and tourism promotion through a network of tourism counters and cultural products such as the Maison des Aventuriers and the Roue Blanche cycling route.

The organization is governed by a conseil communautaire of elected officials from its member communes and is funded through local taxes (taxe foncière), state dotations, and intergovernmental transfers rather than commercial revenue. It does not develop proprietary technology; its digital presence consists of an official website (coeurdesaintonge.fr) hosted on OVH and built by Graines de web, supplemented by Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube accounts for community engagement. No headcount, financial statements, or formal performance metrics are disclosed. Its operational model is that of a regulated public monopoly with a fixed territorial mandate, incremental service expansion (notably in tourism and digital family services), and no commercial exit, M&A, or funding trajectory.

Name

CDC Coeur de Saintonge

Legal name

Communauté de Communes Coeur de Saintonge

Website

https://coeurdesaintonge.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Communauté de Communes Cœur de Saintonge is a French public intercommunal administrative body serving 18 communes and approximately 17,775 residents in Charente-Maritime, delivering shared administrative, waste, youth, environmental, and tourism services funded by local taxes and state transfers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint-Porchaire

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CDC Coeur de Saintonge is a French public intercommunal administrative body (Établissement Public de Coopération Intercommunale) that delivers shared public services to residents across 18 communes in the Charente-Maritime department. It provides administrative access (France Services single window), waste management coordination (via the CYCLAD syndicate), childhood and youth programs, environmental protection and Natura 2000 oversight, urban planning and economic development zones, postal agency services, sports and cultural support, and tourism promotion of the territory.

Product overview

CDC Coeur de Saintonge is a communauté de communes (inter-community cooperation structure) serving 18 communes in the Charente-Maritime department of France. The organization provides public administrative services to approximately 17,775 residents, including administrative access services (France Services office), waste management (via CYCLAD syndicate), childhood and youth services, environmental services, urban planning, economic development zones, and tourism promotion. The website serves as the official portal for this public administrative body and does not offer commercial technology products or services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• France Services Single Window
• Childhood and Youth Services (Enfance Jeunesse)
• Waste Management Coordination (via CYCLAD)
• Business Zones and Enterprise Support
• Tourism Promotion Services
• Urban Planning and Habitat Services
• Postal Agencies (Agences Postales)

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 150 summer animations and events across Cœur de Saintonge territory.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CYCLADcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2016CYCLAD is a Mixed Syndicate (Syndicat Mixte) that manages waste collection and treatment for the territory. CDC Cœur de Saintonge joined CYCLAD on December 1, 2016, delegating waste management services to this intercommunal partner.
• Graines de webminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGraines de web (Philippe Reynès) provides web development services for the CDC website. Located at 4 La Basse Poëze, 44430 LE LANDREAU.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Communauté d'Agglomération de Saintes: Larger intercommunal authority in the same Charente-Maritime department, providing a comparable bundle of administrative, environmental, and economic-development services to a wider urban-rural territory. Most directly comparable EPCI peer for benchmarking service scope.

Broad incumbents

• Bordeaux Métropole: Much larger Nouvelle-Aquitaine intercommunal authority. Useful only as a benchmark for the upper bound of EPCI scope (urban planning, transport, economic development) — not a direct operational peer at CDC's scale.

Direct peers

• Communauté de Communes de l'Île d'Oléron: Neighboring Charente-Maritime coastal EPCI with a comparable population scale and tourism-heavy economy. Highly comparable operating model — public administration, waste, youth, and tourism services across member communes.
• Communauté de Communes Charente Arnoult: Charente-Maritime EPCI appearing in CDC's combined logo identity ('charente-arnoult-coeur-de-saintonge'), suggesting a closely related or merging intercommunal entity. Closest structural peer if a formal merger or partnership is in motion.
• Communauté de Communes de l'Île de Ré: Charente-Maritime EPCI of similar small-commune scale, focused on resident services, tourism, environment, and waste. Directly comparable in governance form, funding model, and service mix to CDC Coeur de Saintonge.
• Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes: Adjacent Charente-Maritime EPCI of similar commune count and population. Directly comparable structure, mandate, and rural-coastal service profile.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCuerfmKklcQfrguC3dCVPbw
• Facebookfacebook.com/Communaut%C3%A9-de-Communes-Coeur-de-Saintonge-345793336111011
• Instagraminstagram.com/coeurdesaintonge/?hl=fr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cdc-coeur-de-saintonge

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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