At Synertrade, Gérard will implement the group’s development plan, which will include the business transformation programme, based on three pillars: client satisfaction, product and service quality, and talent recruitment. 

With 25 years’ experience in management, strategic marketing and sales, Gérard Dahan is a pioneer in software solutions for procurement departments. He was previously General Manager EMEA at Ivalua, then Senior Vice President EMEA at Corcentric. Gérard is known for his ability to develop firms and put forward innovative solutions.

He is taking up the job of leading Synertrade with a firm sense of commitment and high ambition. He will also have operational responsibility over the sales, pre-sales and marketing departments. Gérard will help fulfil our vision, goals and transformation projects to speed up the Synertrade group’s growth.

Find the press release in attachment

Cleaning up your mailbox is a daily habit. Get started!

Start by doing a major clean-up:

• Empty your inboxes
• Empty out non-priority folders
• Delete old invitations received
• Delete your old emails
• Delete emails with large attachments and save your attachments on your computer

And on a daily basis :

• Prefer Teams exchanges to answer “thank you”, “seen”, “received”…
• Avoid copying everyone on your emails
• Share your documents using Teams
• Send links to large files
• Don’t copy everyone if it is not necessary
• Remove images from signatures when replying to an email

 It’s up to you now!

What is Cyber Cleanup Week?

Cyber Cleanup Week is a challenge aimed at organising a digital cleanup of data and thus reducing our collective environmental impact.

In concrete terms, it’s about cleaning up our mailboxes to reach the goal of reducing our digital environmental footprint by 5%, i.e. deleting 10 million emails in one week! It’s ambitious, but perfectly achievable!

To follow our efforts live, a barometer will be accessible on the Onelink homepage. 

What’s in it for us?

Firstly, a significant reduction in our digital environmental footprint!

Secondly, at the end of the week and if the objective is reached, Econocom will commit to a reforestation project with the planting of around 2,000 trees in collaboration with our partner Re’forestation.

Thirdly, a result that we can be proud to reveal to our clients, our partners or our future talents and that will reinforce our leadership.

Why mobilise?

Because our daily actions – which seem to be few – strongly contribute to this crucial issue today!

Imagine: every email, every search or every video consumes energy and generates greenhouse gas emissions. On a global level, the impact of digital technology is between 2% and 4.3% of total CO2 emissions and between 5 and 10% of total electricity consumption depending on the source!

It is time to act!

Vidéo #1 – Reflexes

NB: simple but useful reminder ?

Vidéo #2 – Tutorial

“Entreprendre” is a monthly national press magazine designed for business leaders, available in digital and paper versions, with a circulation of around 100,000 copies.

As a pioneer in the circular economy of digital technology, this speech echoes the first interview of our CEO on this subject, which took place on BFM Business TV at the beginning of July. It aims once again to help our clients to understand the challenges of CSR and to reexplain how CSR is incorporated into our business.

We invite you to discover this article by clicking here and in the attachment.

Jean-Louis Bouchard, Angel Benguigui and Laurent Roudil shared the key points of the first half of 2021 by commenting on:

• our highlights;
• our financial situation;
• our business line development strategy;
• our outlook. 

To find out more, you can watch the replay of this meeting via this link.

Resumed acquisition drive

Robust half-year 2021 performance

• Recurring Operating Profit (ROP) increasing to €62.3 million (up 40%) and operating profitability reaching 5.0% (up 140 bp)
• Net Profit from continued operations at €31.3 million versus €5.8 million in first half of 2020
• A 1.7%² increase in revenue driven by the good growth dynamics of the Digital Services and Solutions segment (up 7.7%), accounting for two-thirds of the half-year revenue.

 > Read the press release

More with Véronique di Benedetto, Vice President France in charge of CSR ?

Our manifesto 

From the beginning of the school year, new CSR news is on the agenda. You are our best ambassadors! We are therefore counting on you to relay all this news through your networks.

Your CSR contacts:

Véronique di Benedetto: veronique.di.benedetto@econocom.com
Badis Belgacem: badis.belgacem@econocom.com

The French weekly program 01 Business attracts around 150.000 viewers. It’s all about technological innovation and how it serves businesses.

During the interview, Jean-Louis has promoted the Group’s CSR policy and his position as an entrepreneur in responsible digital technology. Econocom is a pioneer in the circular economy of digital technology. This talk represents the Group’s CSR policy that aims to help our clients understand the challenges in CSR and to re-explain how CSR is incorporated into our business.

You can watch the program on the channel’s replay service by clicking here.

As the replay is only available in French, you will also find in attachment the programs transcript translated into English.

They complement the principles of the Business Code of Conduct regarding :

• gifts and invitations ;
• corporate philanthropy and sponsorship.

These new procedures are effective from 1 July 2021. They apply to all group entities, including satellites.

The objective is to set guidelines for gifts & invitations and corporate philanthropy & sponsorship in order to prevent these actions from constituting or being perceived as corruption.

The new rules are detailed in the procedures and encourage more transparency.  This is particularly the case for gifts and invitations, which must now all be declared to the N+1 (or for external employees to the reference contact person) and are subject to prior approval above €150 excluding VAT.

The validation/approval matrices and rules to be respected are detailed in the procedures.

Should you have any questions, please write to the following address: ethical.committee@econocom.com

> Click here to discover this publication in French

> Click here to view this publication in English