Decibelles

What Decibelles does

DeciBelles Hôtesses is a privately held French business-to-business staffing agency headquartered in Paris (11 rue Blomet, 75015) that provides trained hostesses and reception staff to corporate clients across France and, on request, internationally. The firm has operated for approximately 20 years (founded around 1997) under a management team with deep experience in the French events and reception services sector, and is self-described as one of the market leaders in the country. It is a member of UNIMEV (Union Française des Métiers de l'Evènement), the principal French trade association for the events industry.

The company's offering is organized into three core service lines: (1) Enterprise Reception Services — outsourced physical and phone reception, mail/fax handling, and meeting/travel bookings for corporate offices; (2) Event Hosting Services — hostess staffing for conferences, conventions, trade shows, cultural and sports events, and VIP evenings; and (3) Animation and Sales Promotion — promotional campaign teams for product launches, demonstrations, tastings, street marketing, and road shows. A supporting Uniform Service provides French-manufactured hostess attire. There is no proprietary technology platform; service delivery is operationally supported by a third-party recruitment portal (Planyapp) and an administrative client portal ("Mon espace"). Notably absent are any API, SDK, AI/ML components, or digital product surface.

The business operates a sales-led, event-driven go-to-market motion. Pricing is custom and quote-based, determined by service type, event date, headcount, and specific client requirements, with multi-year contracts for enterprise reception outsourcing. Customers include major event organizers and corporates such as SIAL, BATIMAT, Maison&Objet, Deutsche Bank, and Cop21. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and the company is privately held with no external funding rounds, parent company, or institutional investors referenced in the available data. Marketing is concentrated in trade show participation (over 20 shows annually) and a multilingual website (French, English, Spanish), with supplementary social media presence on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Name

Decibelles

Legal name

DeciBelles Hôtesses

Website

https://decibelleshotesses.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

DeciBelles Hôtesses is a privately held Paris-based B2B agency providing trained hostesses for corporate reception outsourcing, event staffing, and sales promotion activations across France and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris, Île-de-France

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Hostess Staffing Services: Providing trained hostesses for enterprise reception, events, and sales promotion activities. Revenue generated through staffing fees charged to corporate clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

DeciBelles Hôtesses is a French hostess and event staffing agency that supplies trained personnel to enterprise clients. It delivers three core service lines: outsourced corporate reception (Accueil en entreprise), event hosting for conferences, trade shows, cultural and sports events (Accueil événementiel), and animation/sales promotion teams for product launches, sampling, street marketing and road shows. It also provides professionally designed hostess uniforms manufactured in France.

Product overview

DeciBelles Hôtesses offers a unified portfolio of hospitality and event services organized into three core offerings: Enterprise Reception Services (Accueil en entreprise), Event Hosting Services (Accueil événementiel), and Animation and Sales Promotion (Animation et Promotion de ventes). The company also provides uniform services as a supporting offering. All services are delivered across the French territory with a focus on proximity to clients, quality recruitment, and staff training. The company operates as a single-service agency rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Accueil en entreprise (Enterprise Reception Services)
• Accueil événementiel (Event Hosting Services)
• Animation et Promotion de ventes (Animation and Sales Promotion)
• Nos uniformes (Uniform Service)

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• UNIMEV (Union Française des Métiers de l'Evènement)moderateOthersDeciBelles Hôtesses is a member of UNIMEV, the French Union of Trade of the Event, and agrees to comply with its various codes and values. This membership ensures adherence to industry standards and ethical practices.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Publicis Live: Publicis Live is the events and experiential marketing arm of Publicis Groupe, providing end-to-end event production including staffing and hostess services for major brands. It competes with DeciBelles for the same brand-driven promotional campaign budgets.
• Adecco Group: Adecco is a global staffing leader with a large French subsidiary (Adecco France) providing B2B staffing, reception, and event support services. It overlaps with DeciBelles in enterprise reception outsourcing and event staffing for large corporates.
• Randstad: Randstad is a global staffing company with substantial French operations, offering B2B staffing including reception and event support. It represents a broader incumbent alternative for enterprise customers considering DeciBelles' enterprise reception services.
• Hopscotch Congrès: Hopscotch Congrès is a French event management and congress organization agency. While it focuses on full event production rather than staffing alone, it operates in the same enterprise and trade show customer segment and often competes for the same event budgets.
• BCD Meetings & Events: BCD Meetings & Events is a global meetings, events, and staffing services provider serving enterprise clients. It competes with DeciBelles for multinational enterprise reception and event staffing contracts, particularly for cross-border engagements.
• ManpowerGroup: ManpowerGroup is one of the world's largest staffing companies and operates in France with significant B2B staffing capabilities. While it is not specialized in hostess/event services, it competes for enterprise reception and HR outsourcing contracts adjacent to DeciBelles' core market.
• GL Events: GL Events is a major publicly listed French event services group operating venues, providing event management, and supplying event staff. It serves many of the same trade show and enterprise customers as DeciBelles but at significantly larger scale and broader scope.
• Comexposium: Comexposium is one of Europe's largest trade show and convention organizers, headquartered in France. It organizes many of the events (e.g., Maison&Objet-adjacent shows) where DeciBelles provides hostess staffing, making it both a customer and an adjacent competitor in the event services value chain.

Regional players

• Mazarine Pallas: Mazarine Pallas is a French event and communications agency serving premium and luxury brands with event staffing, hostess services, and experiential marketing. It targets the same upper-tier French enterprise and brand event segment as DeciBelles, making it a relevant regional competitor.

Direct peers

• City One: City One is a French B2B services company providing reception, hostess, and event staffing across France, with a directly comparable service portfolio (enterprise reception outsourcing, event hostesses, and multilingual support). It is one of the most direct competitors to DeciBelles in the French hostess agency market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/@BellesDeci
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCRRWPYInvSL4uFbhvKNOgkQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/pages/Decibelles-Htesses/220693837960420
• Instagraminstagram.com/decibelleshotesses
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/decibelles

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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