Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes

What Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes does

Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes is a French Établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI), a public intercommunal authority headquartered at 24 rue Dubois Meynardie in Marennes-Hiers-Brouage, Charente-Maritime, within the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Founded in 1997, the entity pools statutory competencies across six member communes, delivering a portfolio of public services that includes municipal waste collection and recycling (with redevance incitative pricing), early-childhood care (0–6 years), leisure centers (3–12 years), youth spaces (11–17 years), and youth listening points (12–25 years), as well as an intercommunal Social Action Center (CIAS), home-help services, an École de Musique, and employment-support and professional-orientation services (EOP). It also operates an Espace France Services administrative desk and a digital Guichet Numérique for urban planning permits (ADS) implemented under the ELAN law.

On the economic-development and environmental axes, the communauté supports business parks, enterprise aid programs, and a business directory, while running sustainable-development programs including aquatic-environment management, the Seudre Alabri flood-prevention program (co-financed with SMBS, the state, the Department, and CdA Royan Atlantique), Natura 2000 biodiversity preservation, the Grand Site de France Marais de Brouage project, and a candidature for a Parc naturel régional des marais du littoral charentais. It also co-operates with the neighboring Communauté de Communes Ile d'Oléron under the Pôle Marennes Oléron tourism banner and with Interco Normandie Sud Eure and CDC des Hauts du Perche on a 'roots tourism' website targeting North American descendants of French emigrants.

The entity has no commercial revenue model. It is funded primarily through local taxation (taxe foncière, Cotisation Foncière des Entreprises, redevance incitative) and intergovernmental grants from the Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Département de Charente-Maritime. Customer segments are geographically defined rather than commercially acquired: residents and new arrivals, families, job seekers, local businesses and entrepreneurs, and tourism providers. As a public administrative body, it holds a statutory monopoly over delegated intercommunal competencies within its perimeter and is not a target for conventional PE/VC/M&A activity.

Name

Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes

Legal name

Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes

Website

https://bassin-de-marennes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes is a French intercommunal public authority (EPCI) delivering waste management, childcare, social, urban-planning, economic-development, and environmental services to residents and businesses across six communes in Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Marennes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Public funding and local taxes: As a French communauté de communes, the organization is primarily funded through local taxation (taxe foncière, Cotisation Foncière des Entreprises, etc.) and public grants from regional and departmental authorities.

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes is a French intercommunal public authority (Établissement public de coopération intercommunale, EPCI) that delivers shared municipal services across multiple communes in the Charente-Maritime territory. Its service portfolio spans waste collection and recycling, early childhood and youth programs, social solidarity and home assistance, administrative formalities (France Services), urban planning and right-of-soil permits, music education, employment support, economic development (business parks and enterprise aid), sustainable development and flood prevention, and public transport coordination.

Product overview

Communauté de Communes du Bassin de Marennes is a French intercommunal public authority (collectivité territoriale) providing essential public services to residents of the Marennes basin area. Rather than a unified digital product platform, the organization delivers a portfolio of administrative and community services including waste management (Gestion des déchets), childcare and youth services (Enfance-Jeunesse), social solidarity programs (Solidarité), administrative assistance (France Services), urban planning services (with a digital guichet numérique), music education (École de Musique), employment support (EOP), economic development, sustainable development initiatives, and transportation. These are public services governed by French local government law, not commercial technology products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gestion des déchets (Waste Management)
• Enfance-Jeunesse (Child and Youth Services)
• Solidarité (Social Solidarity)
• Espace France Services
• Urbanisme – Guichet Numérique (Digital Planning Portal)
• École de Musique du Bassin de Marennes
• Soutien à l'emploi et à l'orientation professionnelle (EOP)
• Économie et développement économique (Economic Development)
• Aménagement et Développement Durable (Sustainable Development)
• Transport

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered regional governance partner, departmental governance partner, regional tourism promotion partner, regional strategic partner, international heritage partnership and flood prevention partner.

• Région Nouvelle-Aquitaineregional governance partnerOthersThe region provides institutional support and funding to the communauté de communes as part of the broader Nouvelle-Aquitaine regional governance structure.
• Département de Charente-Maritimedepartmental governance partnerOthersThe department provides institutional support and funding to the communauté de communes as part of Charente-Maritime departmental governance.
• Pôle Marennes Oléronregional tourism promotion partnerGTM or Marketing PartnerCollaborative tourism promotion initiative between Marennes and Oléron territories, promoting the combined destination to visitors.
• Communauté de Communes Ile d'Oléron - Marennesregional strategic partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint economic and tourism development initiatives with the neighboring Ile d'Oléron community of communes, including shared tourism office and promotion.
• Interco Normandie Sud Eureinternational heritage partnershipStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with Interco Normandie Sud Eure (Eure) and CDC des Hauts du Perche (Orne) to launch a joint tourism website (www.terresdenosancetres.com) promoting 'roots tourism' for North American descendants of French emigrants to New France. The site is available in French and English.
• Syndicat Mixte du Bassin de la Seudre (SMBS)flood prevention partnerStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the Seudre Alabri program for flood prevention. The community co-finances the program alongside the state, department, and CdA Royan Atlantique. SMBS manages the program and provides free vulnerability diagnostics to residents.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Communauté de Communes de l'Ile d'Oléron: Neighboring French communauté de communes on the Oléron island. Directly comparable as a sister EPCI of similar size with which Bassin de Marennes has formal strategic and tourism development partnerships, including a shared tourism office.
• Communauté d'Agglomération Royan Atlantique: Adjacent French intercommunale in Charente-Maritime referenced as a co-financier of the Seudre Alabri flood prevention program. Comparable structure with overlapping coastal Charente-Maritime territory and shared environmental challenges.
• Communauté de Communes de la Haute-Saintonge: Larger neighboring communauté de communes in Charente-Maritime operating in a comparable rural Nouvelle-Aquitaine setting. Directly comparable on competencies (waste, economic dev, social services) and regulatory framework.
• Communauté de Communes Cœur de Saintonge: Adjacent EPCI in Charente-Maritime with comparable rural profile and intermunicipal service mandate. Directly comparable as a French communauté de communes of similar scale and competency set.
• Syndicat Mixte du Bassin de la Seudre (SMBS): Partner syndicat mixte managing the Seudre Alabri flood prevention program co-financed by Bassin de Marennes. Comparable as a French public cooperative body delivering environmental infrastructure services in the same watershed.
• Communauté de Communes Charente-Arnoult-Cœur de Saintonge: Nearby Charente-Maritime communauté de communes with comparable rural intermunicipal profile. Useful structural and operational benchmark for a French communauté de communes of similar size and competency.
• Pôle d'Équilibre Territorial et Rural Marennes Oléron: Regional tourism promotion structure partnering with Bassin de Marennes. Directly comparable as a French public tourism development pole serving adjacent Charente-Maritime and Oléron territories with shared destination branding.
• Interco Normandie Sud Eure: French intercommunale in Eure with which Bassin de Marennes has a formal heritage tourism partnership (terresdenosancetres.com). Comparable EPCI structure serving a rural French territory with cultural-tourism ambitions.
• Communauté de Communes des Hauts du Perche: Co-partner in the 'roots tourism' cross-territory initiative. Comparable small French communauté de communes in Orne with similar rural characteristics and cultural heritage positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Bordeaux Métropole: Large-scale French métropole in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Provides a scaled-up view of how an intercommunale evolves toward greater compétences and integration, useful for understanding the upper-bound trajectory of EPCI development.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/cdc.bassindemarennes

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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