Steria
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Steria delivers IT
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 enabled business services, focusing on key vertical market sectors: public services, finance, telecommunications, utilities and transport. The company provides consulting services for its clients' core business processes, and also develops and operates their information systems.
Steria has 20,000 employees working in 16 countries. In 2010, Steria revenue amounted to €1.69 billion. 20% of Steria's capital is owned by its employees. The group, headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux
Issy-les-Moulineaux
Issy-les-Moulineaux is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. On 1 January 2003, Issy-les-Moulineaux became part of the Communauté d'agglomération Arc de Seine along with the other communes of Chaville, Meudon, Vanves and Ville-d'Avray...

, is listed on the Euronext Paris market.

Steria earns almost all of its revenue from Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, with major contributors being United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 (47%), France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 (28%) and Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 (12%).

History

Steria was created by Jean Carteron in 1969. In 1978, Steria established a subsidiary in Switzerland. Steria won the primary contract of Teletel 3V in France and won the largest export contract ever (by a French IT company) by signing computer automation project of Central Bank of Saudi Arabia in 1986. In 1987, Steria joined the development of driverless train project for Paris' RER A line. By 1990, Steria had subsidiaries in Germany, Spain and Saudi Arabia.

Francois Enaud took over as Group chairman and CEO in 1998 and Steria listed itself in the Paris Stock Exchange the next year. In 2000, Steria acquired three service and telecom companies in France to become one of top five French service providers. In 2001, Steria started the Fondation Steria, a community support group. In 2007, Steria acquired the British IT outsourcing and technology company Xansa
Xansa
Xansa plc, trading as Xansa, was a British outsourcing and technology company, and was quoted on the London Stock Exchange until 17 October 2007 when the purchase of Xansa by Steria was completed and the company was delisted. Its headquarters were in Reading, Berkshire, England, and it had a major...

 Plc and in 2010 the company celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Offices and development centres

Steria has development centres and/or regional offices in the following locations : Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

, Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

, Norway, Poland, Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden and United Kingdom.

Steria Corporate Center for Real-Time & Embedded Software

Steria Corporate Center for Real-Time and Embedded Software expertise is located in Aix-en-Provence, France.
For more than 25 years dedicated to aeronautics (Eurocopter, Dassault), defence (DCNS, DGA) and transportation (RATP, ASF, ESCOTA)
Engineer teams have developed premium expertise with products such as QC (TEST DIRECTOR), SCADE and VAPS.
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