Guigues

What Guigues does

Founded in 1929 by Marius Guigues, Guigues is a privately held French PME (Société Anonyme à conseil d'administration) headquartered in Marseille's 15th arrondissement, where it has been established since the 1960s. With approximately 100 collaborators, the company delivers civil engineering, public works, and urban development services across four integrated service pillars: Réseaux (drinking water networks, sanitation, irrigation, fire protection, district heating/cooling, and dry utilities), Génie civil (hydraulic structures such as pumping stations and reservoirs, concrete works including retaining walls and industrial slabs, and underground gallery rehabilitation), Aménagement urbain (roads, paving, curbs, street furniture, fencing, landscaping), and Maçonnerie/Second oeuvre (masonry, façades, partitions, insulation, roofing, painting, tiling, and finishing trades). The firm's technical toolkit combines trenchless pipe rehabilitation with traditional excavation, concrete construction, and finishing works, executed with equipment adapted to dense urban constraints and employing environmentally-respectful practices — including 10 heavy trucks operating on Dielix used-vegetetable-oil biofuel and 100% recycling of polyethylene pipe cuttings through partner Valorely. The business model is project-based one-time contracting, with revenue earned from public procurement tenders (marchés publics) awarded by municipalities, water utilities, and government entities, supplemented by direct contracts with industrial operators (e.g., ENI France) and limited private residential work. The customer base is anchored on a small set of repeat public-sector clients — notably Service des Eaux de Marseille (~800 leak repairs/year), Marseille Métropole, Ville de Marseille, Syndicat Durance Lubéron, and ESID (Defense infrastructure at Toulon) — supported by AFNOR QSE and MASE certifications. GTM relies on direct field sales relationships and a limited digital footprint (corporate website, LinkedIn), with employer branding reinforced through educational outreach programs (Métiers en Nord, Empl'itude) and the GRANDIR social-innovation partnership.

Name

Guigues

Legal name

GUIGUES

Website

https://guigues.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1929

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Guigues is a French PME founded in 1929, headquartered in Marseille, providing civil engineering, water/sanitation network construction, urban development, and masonry services to public-sector clients (municipalities, water utilities, defense) and industrial operators across Bouches-du-Rhône and surrounding departments.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Marseille-en-beauvaisis

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Public infrastructure construction services: Guigues generates revenue through project-based contracts for constructing and rehabilitating water networks, sanitation systems, civil engineering structures, and urban development works. Services are delivered to public sector clients (collectivités, municipalities, water utilities) via public procurement and to private industrial clients through direct contracts. Revenue is earned through one-time project fees rather than recurring contracts.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Guigues is a French construction PME (nearly 100 employees) delivering civil engineering, water/sanitation network construction and rehabilitation, urban development, and masonry/finishing works. The company acts as a single-interlocutor across four trades, providing new construction, renovation, and emergency repair services to municipalities, water utilities, and industrial clients in the Bouches-du-Rhône region. It offers 24/7 emergency response and combines trenchless rehabilitation with traditional excavation methods.

Product overview

GUIGUES is a construction company (PME) with approximately 100 employees, specializing in four interconnected service areas: Réseaux (Networks), Génie civil (Civil Engineering), Aménagement urbain (Urban Development), and Maçonnerie / Second oeuvre (Masonry/Finishing Work). The company offers a single interlocutor for all construction needs, providing both new construction and rehabilitation services using environmentally-friendly techniques. Réseaux covers water supply, sanitation, and utility networks; Génie civil handles hydraulic and concrete structures; Aménagement urbain provides urban development and roadwork; and Maçonnerie/Second oeuvre delivers building finishing services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Réseaux (Networks) Construction and rehabilitation of water supply (drinking water), sanitation, and miscellaneous utility networks for municipalities, water utilities, industrial clients, and individual property owners. Includes new network construction, renovation, branch and meter installation, fire hydrant installation, sewage connections, and irrigation/fire/dry/heating networks.
• Génie civil (Civil Engineering) Civil engineering works including hydraulic structures (pumping stations, reservoirs, retention basins), concrete structures (retaining walls, industrial buildings, slabs), and underground gallery rehabilitation using mortar projection, shell installation, and structural reinforcement. Delivered to public sector and industrial clients.
• Aménagement urbain (Urban Development) Urban development and VRD (Voirie et Réseaux Divers) including road surfaces, paving, curbs, signage, street furniture, fencing, landscaping, and irrigation systems. Delivered to municipal and metropolitan authorities for public space and transport projects.
• Maçonnerie / Second œuvre (Masonry/Finishing Work) Masonry and finishing construction services including walls, facades, partitions, insulation, ceilings, windows, roofing, painting, tiling, plumbing, and electrical work. Bundled with the other three trades to provide a single-interlocutor full project lifecycle.

Quantifiable outcome

• Manages 800 leak repairs annually for Service des Eaux de Marseille
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• ValorelyminorOthersGuigues partners with Valorely, a company that 'regenerates' waste tubes into new tubes. Through a Business Synergies Inter-Company Agreement, 100% of Guigues' PEhd (polyethylene) pipe cuttings and TPC (temporary protective sheathing) waste are now recycled at the Elyrev factory in Signes (47 km away), compared to only 47% previously being recycled or used for energy recovery.
• Groupe La VarappeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGuigues participates in the GRANDIR social innovation project initiated by Groupe La Varappe with over 15 field actors. The project aims to renew professional support and recruitment practices by connecting companies with job seekers through sports, cultural, and artistic events in Aix-Marseille and Mayotte territories. Guigues teams played football, listened to 'talents', and shared their professional experiences.
• Cap au Nord EntreprendreminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGuigues supports 'Métiers en Nord', an educational action for discovering the professional world. The initiative helps 3rd-grade students in North Marseille choose their career orientation by visiting companies. Guigues organized classroom interventions and site visits for students from Collège Clair Soleil Marseille.
• Fondation Agir Contre l'Exclusion Sud ProvenceminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn partnership with the Fondation Agir Contre l'Exclusion Sud Provence, Guigues participates in Empl'itude label activities, organizing speed-dating sessions with 3rd-grade students from Collège Belle de Mai to combat gender stereotypes and open career possibilities for young people.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• NGE (Nouvelles Générations d'Entrepreneurs): French mid-size construction group active in earthworks, utilities, roadworks, and civil engineering across multiple regions. Directly comparable in offering breadth, multi-trade bundling, and B2G go-to-market, but with national geographic reach that Guigues lacks.
• SADE CGTH: French water and network infrastructure specialist (subsidiary of NALAN Group / SUEZ) focused on drinking water, sanitation, and utility network construction and rehabilitation. Direct peer in networks, trenchless rehabilitation, and public-sector water utility contracting; notably the SADE-CGTH domain appears as a cross-domain cookie reference on Guigues' website, suggesting an existing commercial or systems relationship.
• STURNO (Colas Environnement & Sécurité): French regional PME specialized in underground utility networks and trenching in northern and eastern France. Comparable as a sub-scale regional network-installation peer with similar B2G market focus, though operating in a different geographic territory.
• Entreprise de Travaux Publics et de Construction (ETPC): French regional public works and civil engineering contractor active in networks, earthworks, and urban infrastructure. Comparable in size and offering scope to Guigues, with similar reliance on local public-sector clients and multi-trade bundling.

Broad incumbents

• Sogea Environnement (VINCI Construction): French subsidiary of VINCI Construction focused on hydraulic infrastructure, networks, and environmental works. Closest large-incumbent comparator to Guigues' core networks and hydraulic structure activities, with multi-region capacity and public-sector scale advantages.
• Colas (Bouygues Construction): World leader in road construction and maintenance with significant activity in urban development, water infrastructure, and civil engineering. Overlaps with Guigues in urban development, paving, and networks but operates at substantially larger scale and global footprint.
• SPIE France: French technical services group with significant networks and infrastructure activity (SPIE Citynetworks, SPIE Infrastructure). Overlaps with Guigues in dry utilities, networks, and public-sector infrastructure works, but delivers via a national multi-disciplinary technical services model.
• Bouygues Construction France: Major French building and civil works contractor covering schools, public buildings, and urban infrastructure — overlapping with Guigues' nonresidential building and urban development work, but at substantially larger scale and national reach.
• SAUR (Suez / Natixis-owned): French water utility operator that performs and contracts out water network construction and maintenance, including lead-pipe replacement programs. Comparable customer base and project types as Guigues, but typically operates as prime contractor delegating field execution to regional PMEs like Guigues.
• Eiffage Travaux Publics: Major French civil engineering and infrastructure contractor with deep presence in hydraulic structures, networks, and urban development. Comparable in technical scope to Guigues but with national capacity and broader concession exposure.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/guigues

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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