Agglo Saint-Dié

What Agglo Saint-Dié does

Agglo Saint-Dié refers to the Communauté d'Agglomération de Saint-Dié, an intercommunal public institution (Établissement public de coopération intercommunale) centered on the Ville de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in the Vosges department of the Grand Est region in France, grouping approximately 50 municipalities. The entity was founded as an agglomeration structure in 2017 and employs 101–250 staff delivering municipal and agglomeration-level public services: civil administration (state/civil registry, elections, identity documents), urban planning and housing, waste management (via the REOMi incentive-based fee), water and environmental services, public transport (Sylvia bus network, on-demand transit), education support (from early childhood through secondary), sports and cultural facility operations (Aquanova America, Palais omnisports Joseph-Claudel, Musée Pierre-Noël, Conservatoire Olivier Douchain, L'Étincelle), tourism promotion, and social welfare through the CCAS and two community social centers. Bruno Toussaint was re-elected mayor in March 2026 with a 25 out of 33 council-seat majority.

The business model is that of a French local authority, funded through local taxation (taxe d'habitation, taxes foncières, Contribution Économique Territoriale), state and regional grants (DSIL, DETR, Région Grand Est, Conseil Départemental des Vosges, Agence Nationale du Sport), user fees (parking via EasyPark/Flowbird, market stalls, cemetery, building permits), and participatory democracy instruments including a multi-iteration Budget Participatif and a 37-member Youth Municipal Council. Go-to-market is direct-to-consumer through the Hôtel de Ville, community social centers (Lucie-Aubrac, Saint-Roch/Germaine-Tillion), and the Cité Pass' en ligne digital portal, supplemented by community-led engagement channels such as monthly mayor breakfast meetings in priority urban neighborhoods and quarterly neighborhood meetings. Recent capital expenditure includes a €871,519 synthetic football field, a €210,000 tennis court refurbishment (65% subsidized), an estimated €2 million street rehabilitation with bike infrastructure, and a €202,000 cathedral square restoration using 100 sandstone blocks. The technology stack is conventional: no proprietary technology is disclosed, no AI/ML capabilities are in evidence, and the municipal website is currently non-compliant with the French RGAA accessibility standard. Service delivery relies on commercial off-the-shelf platforms (EasyPark, Flowbird, SYLVIA) and standard digital communication channels (Facebook, YouTube, the bimonthly Déodatiens magazine, and the weekly Le Trois Minutes newsletter).

Name

Agglo Saint-Dié

Legal name

Ville de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Website

https://saint-die-des-vosges.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Agglo Saint-Dié is the Communauté d'Agglomération de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, a French intercommunal public institution serving ~50 municipalities with civil administration, urban planning, waste, water, transport, cultural, sports, and social services for residents, businesses, and visitors in the Vosges/Grand Est region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Local Tax Revenue: The municipality funds its operations through local taxes (taxe d'habitation, taxes foncières, Contribution Economique Territoriale) collected from residents and businesses within the commune of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.
2. Municipal Fees and Charges: Revenue is generated from various fees including cemetery fees, marriage fees, building permits, market stall rentals, and parking fees (EasyPark/Flowbird).
3. State and Regional Subsidies: The municipality receives Dotation de Soutien à l'Investissement Local (DSIL), Dotation d'Equipement des Territoires Ruraux (DETR), and other state/regional grants for infrastructure projects.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

As the central municipality of the Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Agglomération, the Ville de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges delivers a full range of local public administration services: civil status and administrative procedures, education (maternal through secondary), sports programs and facilities, cultural venues and programming, social services and CCAS aid, environmental management (waste collection, water, forestry), urban planning, housing support, and mobility services (bus network, parking, train station). The agglomeration entity coordinates ~50 communes around Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in the Vosges department of France's Grand Est.

Product overview

The Agglomération de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges provides a comprehensive suite of municipal services through an integrated platform combining administrative services, leisure facilities, cultural venues, and community programs. The service architecture centers on a unified web portal offering citizen services (Déodatiens magazine, Le Trois Minutes newsletter), sports facilities (Palais omnisports Joseph-Claudel, Aquanova America), cultural venues (Musée Pierre-Noël, Conservatoire Olivier Douchain, L'Étincelle, CEPAGRAP), and community support programs (Chèques Déodat Sport subsidy, J'apprends à nager program, Budget Participatif civic engagement). The Agglomeration manages 15 distinct service offerings across administrative, cultural, sporting, and social domains, with services delivered both online through the municipal portal and physically through facilities and programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Aquanova America Aquatic leisure center offering swimming pools, water attractions, and wellness facilities for residents and visitors.
• Chèques Déodat Sport
• J'apprends à nager Free swimming instruction program for children aged 6-12 years, teaching water safety skills during summer periods.
• Palais omnisports Joseph-Claudel
• Festival International de Géographie (FIG)
• Conservatoire Olivier Douchain
• Musée Pierre-Noël et Patrimoine
• Réseau Escales (La Boussole)
• L'Étincelle
• Espace des Arts Plastiques CEPAGRAP
• Maison de l'Enfance Françoise-Dolto
• Budget Participatif
• Déodatiens Magazine Official municipal magazine providing news and updates about city events, services, and community life in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Published bimonthly (current 83rd edition July-August 2026).
• Le Trois Minutes Weekly electronic newsletter providing citizens with upcoming events and local agenda information for Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (683rd edition).
• La Nef Concert hall and venue hosting Orchestre+ performances and musical events.
• Orchestre+ Concert orchestra performing orchestral music, indoor and outdoor concerts, and parades for civic events.

Quantifiable outcome

• 532 licensed football players served by the new synthetic field at Parc Edmond-et-Jean-Woehrlé
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OrangeminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 28 May 2026Telecom company Orange donated 200 pieces of office furniture (tables, desks, chairs, coat racks, small furniture) to approximately 20 Déodatien associations. The city provided logistical support including storage facilities and transport from Orange's offices to the Centre Technique Municipal. Association Trans'Versants coordinated the distribution.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Bordeaux Métropole: Larger Grand Est-adjacent / French regional metros operate the same intercommunal service architecture (transport, waste, urban planning, culture) at materially greater scale. They represent the 'upper bound' incumbent model for service pooling and digital citizen engagement, against which smaller agglomerations can benchmark capability gaps.
• Strasbourg Eurométropole: Larger Grand Est cross-border agglomeration providing an analogous full-stack municipal and agglomeration service delivery model (culture, mobility, environment, urbanism). A scaling-up benchmark for what a Saint-Dié-tier agglomeration could evolve into as population and tax base grow.

Others

• Conseil Départemental des Vosges: Upper tier of government within the same Vosges department and a regular co-funder of Saint-Dié projects (e.g., €112.5k contribution to the synthetic football field). Not a competitor, but a key institutional counterparty and adjacent public-administration peer for benchmarking departmental-level program delivery.
• Office de Tourisme La Boussole: Municipal tourism office referenced in the city's own communications (distribution of the Été en Grand program guide). An adjacent ecosystem participant delivering the tourism-promotion and visitor-services layer that complements the agglomeration's cultural-venue portfolio.

Direct peers

• Colmar Agglomération: Nearby Alsace intercommunal authority of comparable municipal scale serving Colmar and surrounds. Operates an analogous suite of agglomeration-shared services (waste, mobility, culture, early childhood) and faces the same rural-urban demographic profile in the Grand Est region.
• Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (m2A): Mid-sized Grand Est agglomeration near Saint-Dié with a directly overlapping service mandate (urban planning, waste via REOMi equivalent, public transport, social centers, cultural venues). Slightly larger scale makes it a useful benchmark for service-delivery operating leverage.
• Grand Belfort Communauté d'Agglomération: Adjacent Bourgogne-Franche-Comté/Grand Est border agglomeration with similar intercommunal structure, population scale, and industrial-heritage municipal identity. Directly comparable on shared-service pooling (transport, waste, culture, social).
• Troyes Champagne Métropole: Comparable mid-sized French agglomeration combining medieval-city heritage management (Tour de la Liberté's 1989 bicentennial context parallels Troyes' heritage tourism identity), participatory budgeting, and a multi-channel cultural and sports venue portfolio at the same population band.
• Communauté d'Agglomération d'Épinal: Headquartered in the Vosges department capital, the Épinal agglomeration is the closest geographic and structural peer to Agglo Saint-Dié: same Grand Est region, same department, similar intercommunal structure grouping ~70 municipalities and comparable population scale. Directly comparable on service portfolio (waste, water, transport, urban planning) and governance model.
• Metz Métropole: Moselle-department agglomeration with the same Grand Est governance context, comparable Palais omnisports-scale sports infrastructure (Arènes de Metz) and a participatory democracy track record that makes it a structural model for Saint-Dié's council-driven engagement stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/deodaTV
• Facebookfacebook.com/agglosaintdie
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agglo-saint-die

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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