Compagnie des Alpes is a French company created in 1989 to operate many ski resorts in Europe. Compagnie des Alpes is a part of Caisse des dépôts et consignations

Caisse des dépôts et consignations

The Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations is a French financial organization created in 1816, and part of the government institutions under the control of the Parliament. Augustin De Romanet is the board chairman and chief executive...

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History

Compagnie des Alpes was first established in 1989 as a ski resort operator. Since 2001, Compagnie des Alpess activity has extended to theme parks including the Walibi parks. The Walibi parks used to be owned by an independent company run by Belgian Eddy Meeus. They were then sold off to American company Six Flags

Six Flags

Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world's largest amusement park corporation based on quantity of properties and the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains 14 properties located throughout North America, including theme parks, thrill parks, water parks and family...

, however, due to financial problems they were sold again - this time to Compagnie des Alpes. The company has plans to expand the Walibi brand of theme parks with five of their current locations expected to be converted into Walibi parks.

Ski

France

• La Plagne
  La Plagne
  La Plagne is a French ski area in the alpine valley of the Tarentaise . Since 2003, La Plagne and the neighbouring resort of Les Arcs form Paradiski's ski area...
  
  
• Tignes
  Tignes
  Tignes is a commune in the Tarentaise Valley, Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It is also a ski resort near Val d'Isère, that are linked together as the "Espace Killy" region...
  
  
• Les Arcs
  Les Arcs
  Les Arcs is a ski resort located in Savoie, France, in the Tarentaise Valley town of Bourg-Saint-Maurice. Initially created by Robert Blanc and Roger Godino...
  
  
• Les Deux Alpes
  Les Deux Alpes
  Les Deux Alpes is a ski resort in the French Isère département. The village sits at 1650m and lifts run to 3600m . It has the largest skiable glacier in Europe and is France's second oldest ski resort behind Chamonix, where the largest mountain in western Europe is located, Mont Blanc...
  
   Acquired November 2009
• Les Menuires
  Les Menuires
  Les Menuires is a ski resort in the Belleville valley of Les Trois Vallées between Saint-Martin-de-Belleville and Val Thorens. Owned and operated by Compagnie des Alpes, It is in the Savoie département of France....
  
  
• Le Grand Massif
• Meribel
  Méribel
  Méribel is a ski resort in the Tarentaise Valley in the French Alps, situated near the town of Moutiers.Méribel refers to three neighbouring villages in the Les Allues commune of the Savoie département of France, near the town of Moûtiers , called Méribel Centre, Méribel-Mottaret and Méribel Village...
  
   Alpina
• Peisey-Vallandry
  Peisey-Vallandry
  Peisey-Vallandry is a ski area, part of Les Arcs ski resort. There is a cable car link with La Plagne ski resort at Plan-Peisey called Vanoise Express....
  
  
• Chamonix
  Chamonix
  Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...
  
   - Compagnie du Mont Blanc
• Serre Chevalier
  Serre Chevalier
  Serre Chevalier is one of the major French ski resorts. Located in the southern part of the Alps, close to the Parc National des Ecrins, in the Hautes-Alpes department of the French Alps, it enjoys a large skiing area and very sunny weather, boasting 300 days of sunshine a year...
  
  
• Val d'Isère
  Val d'Isère
  Val d'Isère is a commune of the Tarentaise Valley, in the Savoie department in south-eastern France. It lies from the border with Italy. It is on the border of the Vanoise National Park created in 1963. The Face de Bellevarde was the scene of the men's downhill race as part of the 1992 Winter...
  
  
• Avoriaz
  Avoriaz
  Avoriaz is a French mountain resort in the heart of the Portes du Soleil. It is located in the territory of the commune of Morzine. It is easily accessible from either Thonon at Lake Geneva or Cluses-junction on the A40 motorway between Geneva and Chamonix...
  
  
• La Rosière
  La Rosière
  La Rosière may refer to:*La Rosière, Haute-Saône, a commune in the French region of Franche-Comté*La Rosière, Savoie, a ski resort in the French commune of Montvalezan...
  
  

Italy

• Courmayeur
  Courmayeur
  Courmayeur is an Italian town and comune in the autonomous region of Aosta Valley, in northern Italy. It is located at the foot of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in western Europe, in the Graian Alps range, and is crossed by the Dora Baltea...
  
  

Switzerland

• Televerbier (stakes sold 2009)
• Saas Fee (stakes sold 2009)
• Aletsch Riederalp Bahnen

Parks

France

• Walibi Rhône-Alpes
• Walibi Aquitaine
• Parc Astérix
  Parc Astérix
  Parc Astérix is a theme amusement park in France, based on the stories of Asterix . Situated approximately north of Paris and from Disneyland Resort Paris, in Plailly in the département of Oise, it opened in 1989...
  
  
• Parc Bagatelle
• La Mer de Sable
• France Miniature
  France Miniature
  France Miniature is a miniature park tourist attraction in Élancourt, France featuring scale models of major French landmarks and monuments in an outdoor park.-Description:...
  
  

Belgium

• Walibi Belgium
  Walibi Belgium
  Walibi Belgium, formerly Walibi Wavre and then Six Flags Belgium, is a Belgian theme park located in Wavre, close to Brussels. During the 1998 to 2004 period, it was owned by Six Flags, Inc, an American theme park operator. It was later sold to Palamon Capital Partners...
  
  
• Bellewaerde
  Bellewaerde
  Bellewaerde is a theme park in the West-Flemish countryside near Ypres . Established in 1954 on grounds that were the location of the Battle of Bellewaerde during World War I, named after the old castle that to this day stands near the main entrance of the park. Bellewaerde is the oldest operating...
  
  

Netherlands

• Walibi Holland
• Dolfinarium Harderwijk

United Kingdom

• Pleasurewood Hills
  Pleasurewood Hills
  Pleasurewood Hills is a theme park on a site between Corton and Gunton, near Lowestoft, Suffolk. The park contains attractions including three rollercoasters. Its mascot is called Woody Bear, who was given a "sailor" look in 2007...
  
  

Other attractions

France

• Great Aquarium Saint-Malo
  Great Aquarium Saint-Malo
  The Great Aquarium – Saint-Malo is one of the major aquariums in France. It opened in 1996 and now belongs to the group Compagnie des Alpes, which also owns many other parks in France and Europe....
  
  
• Planete Sauvage
  Planete Sauvage (Safari Park)
  Planète Sauvage is a safari park situated near Port-Saint-Père, France. It has about 130 hectares of land, where 2,000 animals live in semi-liberty. It opened in 1992.-History:* 1992 : Opening of "Safari Africain"...
  
  
• Aquarium du Val de Loire

External links

• Compagnie des Alpes (English site)