What Groupe Hemera does

Groupe Héméra is a privately held, family-owned French facility services company headquartered in Cesson (Seine-et-Marne) that has operated continuously since 2008 under founders Denis Schiavone and Karine Sedillot. The company delivers three integrated service lines — Service Propreté (professional cleaning including recurring contracts, high-rise vitrerie, floor treatment, post-construction cleaning, and waste management), Protection Incendie (sale, installation and maintenance of extinguishers, smoke extraction, emergency lighting, alarms, fire doors, RIA, dry risers, plus evacuation plans and personnel training), and Solution Nuisibles (rodent and insect diagnostics, preventive/curative treatment with regulatory-compliant baiting plans and detailed reporting). These are sold to commercial and public-sector clients across seven verticals: hospitality, food industry, mass distribution, offices, healthcare, industry, and public buildings.

The company's operating model is direct field-based service delivery to end customers within a single French region, Île-de-France. Technology deployment is limited to operational monitoring tools branded Progiclean (for cleaning service tracking), TopQual-based portals for fire safety and pest control clients, and an eDocPerso employee self-service portal — none of which constitute proprietary AI/ML or differentiated platform IP. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, and revenue mechanics are pure professional-services fees tied to recurring contracts and exceptional works.

In 2024 the company was formally constituted as Groupe HÉMÉRA with the integration of the founders' five adult children (Arthur, Amélie, Julien, Rémi, Romain) and Patricia Schiavone, repositioning the firm from a single-line cleaning operator into a turnkey multi-service family group. Ownership remains wholly concentrated in the Schiavone and Sedillot families with no institutional investors, no funding rounds, and no disclosed M&A. Geographic scope is domestic only and revenue, headcount, and contract metrics are not publicly disclosed, limiting visibility into scale and unit economics.

Name

Groupe Hemera

Legal name

Groupe Héméra

Website

https://groupe-hemera.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Groupe Héméra is a family-owned French facility services firm, headquartered in Cesson, that delivers bundled professional cleaning, fire safety, and pest control services to commercial and public-sector clients across hospitality, food industry, retail, healthcare, and public buildings in the Île-de-France region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Facility services (cleaning, fire safety, pest control)

NAICS

Facilities Support Services (56121), Services to Buildings and Dwellings (5617), Exterminating and Pest Control Services (56171)

SIC

Services-To Dwellings & Other Buildings (7340)

akta.pro primary industry

Disinfection, Sanitation & Vector-Borne Disease Control Services (IMAIAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sanitation, Monitoring & Trap/Station Programs (General) (HSAMAAAH), Commercial Ant/Roach/Stinging Insect Programs (Restaurants, Multi-Unit) (HSAMAFAL)

Keywords

• Professional cleaning services
• Fire safety equipment
• Pest control services
• Commercial hygiene solutions
• Facility maintenance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Cesson-sévigné

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Cleaning Services: Cleaning services for various sectors including GMS, hospitality, food industry, offices, healthcare, industry, and public buildings. Includes regular ongoing cleaning and exceptional cleaning works such as window cleaning at any height, floor treatment, post-construction cleaning, and waste disposal.
2. Fire Safety Services: Installation and maintenance of fire safety equipment including extinguishers, smoke extraction systems, emergency lighting, fire alarms, fire doors, RIA, dry risers. Also includes evacuation plans and personnel training.
3. Pest Control Services: Pest infestation diagnosis and preventive/curative treatment services for rodents, crawling and flying insects. Includes detailed reports and baiting device installation plans compliant with sector regulations.

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Groupe HÉMÉRA is a family-owned French company delivering three integrated B2B service lines: Service Propreté (professional cleaning for hospitality, food processing, retail/GMS, offices, healthcare, industry, and public buildings, plus exceptional works such as high-rise window cleaning, floor treatment, post-construction cleaning, and waste management), Protection Incendie (sale, installation, verification, and maintenance of fire safety equipment including extinguishers, smoke extraction, emergency lighting, fire alarms, fire doors, RIA, and dry risers, plus evacuation plans and personnel training), and Solution Nuisibles (rodent, crawling-insect, and flying-insect diagnosis with preventive and curative treatments, detailed reports, and regulated baiting device plans). Services are monitored and managed through the company's Progiclean pilotage tool and dedicated client portals.

Product overview

Groupe HÉMÉRA is a family-owned multi-service company offering three integrated core service lines: Propreté (professional cleaning), Protection Incendie (fire safety equipment and services), and Solution Nuisibles (pest control). Founded in 2008 by Denis Schiavone and Karine Sedillot, the group expanded in 2024 to include additional family members. The company provides a comprehensive, turnkey experience combining audit, implementation, and follow-up services across all three divisions, serving sectors including hospitality, food processing, industry, healthcare, retail, offices, and public buildings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Progiclean: Internal tool for cleaning service management and staff portal referenced in employee and client access areas.

Products and services

• Service Propreté (Professional Cleaning Services) Professional cleaning services for commercial and public-sector clients across hospitality, food processing (agroalimentaire), mass distribution (GMS), offices, healthcare, industry, and public buildings. Includes recurring cleaning contracts and exceptional works such as high-rise window cleaning, floor treatment, post-construction cleaning, and waste management. Service delivery is monitored through the in-house Progiclean pilotage tool.
• Protection Incendie (Fire Protection Services) Fire safety services including sale, installation, verification, and maintenance of extinguishers, smoke extraction systems (désenfumage), emergency lighting, fire alarms, fire doors (portes coupe-feu), RIA (hose reels), and dry risers (colonnes sèches), plus creation of evacuation plans and personnel training. Supports compliance with regulatory obligations for hospitality, property management (syndics de copropriété), offices, healthcare facilities, retail, and public buildings.
• Solution Nuisibles (Pest Control Services) Pest management solutions targeting rodents, crawling insects, and flying insects. Services include precise diagnostics, preventive and curative interventions, detailed reporting at each visit, and baiting device implementation plans compliant with sector regulations, with a stated preference for reasoned (lutte raisonnée) treatment methods to preserve the environment.

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Hygialys: Regional French cleaning and facility services provider serving commercial, hospitality, and healthcare clients. Closest same-tier peer to Héméra in terms of size and value proposition (multi-sector cleaning specialist).
• Atalian Global Services: France-based global facility services group offering cleaning, hygiene, pest control, and energy services. Closest analogue to Héméra's three-line offering, including pest control via Atalian Pest Services, serving the same regulated verticals at national/international scale.
• Onet: Major French multi-service facility operator (cleaning, security, logistics) headquartered in Marseille. Directly comparable as a multi-line French services group serving the same hospitality, healthcare, and tertiary buyers as Héméra, but at substantially larger scale.
• Challancin: French pest control and hygiene specialist serving food industry, hospitality, and property managers. Directly comparable to Héméra's Solution Nuisibles arm, particularly on regulated buyers (food processors, multi-unit housing).
• Samsic: French facility services group with cleaning, security, hospitality, and property management lines. Directly comparable mid-sized multi-service competitor with deep roots in western France and pan-European expansion.

Broad incumbents

• ISS France: French arm of global facility services group offering cleaning, property, and support services to healthcare, hospitality, and industrial buyers. Comparable multi-service model but operating at multinational scale with broader geographic reach.
• Elis: Paris-listed textile and hygiene services provider with broad presence across France and Europe in flat-linen, washroom, and cleanroom solutions. Adjacent in hygiene services for hospitality and healthcare, though not a direct cleaning competitor.
• Compass Group France: French subsidiary of global foodservice and support services group, providing cleaning and facility services to corporate, healthcare, and education clients. Comparable on the support services side, but with a foodservice-led portfolio rather than a pure cleaning/fire/pest mix.
• Derichebourg Propreté: Cleaning and facility services arm of publicly-listed Derichebourg group, offering multi-sector cleaning at national scale across France. Comparable on cleaning service line, but part of a much larger diversified industrial group.
• Rentokil Initial France: Global leader in pest control and hygiene services with established French operations. Comparable on pest control line (rodents, insects) and overlaps with cleaning via hygiene services, but at significantly larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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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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