GrandAngoulême

What GrandAngoulême does

GrandAngoulême is a French communauté d'agglomération — an intercommunal local government authority — serving 38 communes in the Charente department of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Established in 1976 and headquartered at 25 Boulevard Besson Bey in Angoulême, it coordinates statutory public services for approximately 141,000–142,500 residents and operates with a direct workforce of 190 employees. A subsidiary, GrandAngoulême Habitat, handles social-housing services. Sub-brands include Nautilis (aquatic center and ice rink), L'Alpha (médiathèque), La Nef (contemporary music venue), Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré (performing-arts school), Espace Carat (exhibition and conference center), Krysalide (technoparc), and Plan B (reuse and repair resource center).

Its service portfolio spans water management (assainissement collectif and non-collectif, drinking water, GEMAPI flood prevention), waste management, public transport (including the planned Bus à Haut Niveau de Service and the PEM Sud-Angoumois multimodal hub), urban planning (PLUi-HD, SCOT-AEC, single urban-planning guichet), housing (Plan Local de l'Habitat 2020–2025, social-housing allocation), environmental initiatives (TEPos positive-energy territory, Cartéclima), early-childhood and youth services (multi-acueil crèche, LAEP, RPE, ALVEOLE), agricultural and food policy (PAAT, central kitchen), and economic and social-development programs (Déclic 16 local currency, social clauses in public procurement, ESS cartography). The digital surface is centered on the grandangouleme.fr portal, with online modules for waste, water, urban planning, family services, and a Romanesque-churches mobile application.

Funding is sourced from local taxation (taxe foncière, Cotisation Foncière des Entreprises), government and European subsidies, and user fees set by public deliberation. As a public authority, GrandAngoulême has no commercial revenue, no private shareholders, no VC/PE involvement, and no acquisition or fundraising activity; its "growth" is governed by political mandates and is currently articulated through the "GrandAngoulême vers 2030" agglomeration project covering the 2026–2032 council cycle.

Name

GrandAngoulême

Legal name

GrandAngoulême

Website

https://grandangouleme.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

GrandAngoulême is a French intercommunal local government authority coordinating statutory public services — water, waste, transport, urban planning, housing, culture, and economic development — for approximately 141,000 residents across 38 communes in the Charente department of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, funded by local taxation and public transfers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local Government Administration

akta.pro primary industry

Regional Intergovernmental Organizations (BPADAAAB)

Keywords

• Local public administration
• Intermunicipal services
• Waste management services
• Public transportation services
• Cultural facilities management

Headquarters

HQ city

Angoulême

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

GrandAngoulême is a French communauté d'agglomération, a public intergovernmental authority that aggregates and delivers shared public services on behalf of its member municipalities. Its core function is the coordinated exercise of statutory local-government competences at the agglomeration level rather than the delivery of any commercial product or service.

Product overview

GrandAngoulême is a communauté d'agglomeration (intercommunal local government) serving 38 communes in the Charente department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The organization provides a comprehensive suite of public services including childcare (creches), cultural facilities (L'Alpha médiathèque, Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré, La Nef music venue, Ecole d'Art), sports and leisure facilities (Nautilis aquatic center, Centre Equestre, Stade d'athlétisme), urban planning, water management, housing services, economic development, and mobility/transport services. The digital presence is centered on the main GrandAngoulême Portal (grandangouleme.fr), which serves as the unified gateway to online administrative services (Services en ligne), including dedicated portals for waste management, urban planning, water services, and family services like the Crèche Les Poussins portal. Additional digital offerings include the ESS Cartography mapping tool, the Romanesque Churches mobile application, interpretive trails with QR code audio guides, and the Déclic 16 local currency platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Plan B: A resource center for reuse and repair activities
• Nautilis
• L'Alpha
• La Nef
• Krysalide

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Limoges Métropole: Metropolitan authority in Nouvelle-Aquitaine with comparable intercommunal competencies (water, transport, cultural facilities, economic development) but a larger population base.
• Niort Agglo: Other Nouvelle-Aquitaine communauté d'agglomération with a similar competency perimeter (urban planning, environment, culture, economic development) on a comparable territorial scale.
• Grand Poitiers Communauté Urbaine: Regional peer in Nouvelle-Aquitaine operating an intercommunal structure with overlapping competencies (urban planning, transport, economic development, culture), but serving a larger population.

Direct peers

• CA du Pays de Saint-Omer: Another French communauté d'agglomération of comparable size and rural/intercity territorial character, sharing the same intercommunal-competency model.
• Grand Cognac Communauté d'Agglomération: Adjacent communauté d'agglomération in the same Charente department, of comparable small-to-mid size and rural-territorial character, sharing many service-competency categories with GrandAngoulême.
• CA du Grand Chalon: Mid-sized communauté d'agglomération outside Nouvelle-Aquitaine with similar demographic scale (~100,000 inhabitants) and a comparable competency mix in urban planning, culture, sport, and economic development.
• CA de La Rochelle: French communauté d'agglomération in Nouvelle-Aquitaine with similar territorial and demographic scale, operating an analogous portfolio of cultural, sports, mobility, and environmental services.

Broad incumbents

• Bordeaux Métropole: Large metropolitan authority in the same Nouvelle-Aquitaine region operating all the same intercommunal competencies but at significantly greater scale, serving as an upper-bound benchmark.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/sharer.php
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/grandangoulemerh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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