Schneider Electric
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Schneider Electric SE is a French multinational company that specializes in digital automation and energy management.[3][4] It addresses homes,[5] buildings,[6] data centers,[7] infrastructure and industries,[8] by combining energy technologies, real-time automation, software, and services.[9]
French multinational digital automation and energy management company
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 Schneider Electric head office in Paris | |
| Type | Public (SE) |
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| Industry | Electrical equipment |
| Predecessor | Merlin-Gerin  |
| Founded | 1836; 187 years ago (1836) (as Schneider & Cie) |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | Rueil-Malmaison, France |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Peter Herweck (CEO) Jean-Pascal Tricoire (Chairman) Léo Apotheker (Director) |
| Products | Building automation, home automation, Switches, and sockets, Industrial safety systems, Industrial control systems, electric power distribution, electrical grid automation, Smart grid, critical power & cooling for datacenters |
| Revenue |  €34.17 billion[1] (2022) |
| €4.93 billion[1] (2022) | |
| €3.53 billion[1] (2022) | |
| Total assets | €58.36 billion[1] (2022) |
| Total equity |  €26.09 billion[1] (2022) |
Number of employees | 162,339[1] (2022) |
| Subsidiaries | Luminous Power Technologies Pvt Ltd., invensys, SolveIT Software, APC, Areva T&D, BEI Technologies, Cimac, Citect, Clipsal, ELAU, Federal Pioneer, Merlin Gerin, Merten, Modicon PLC, Nu-Lec Industries, PDL Group, Power Measurement, Square D, TAC, Telemecanique, Telvent, Gutor Electronic LLC, Zicom, Summit, Xantrex |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [2] | |
Schneider Electric is a Fortune Global 500 company, publicly traded on the Euronext Exchange, and is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.[10] In fiscal year 2022, the company posted revenues of €34.2 billion.[1]
Schneider Electric is the parent company of Square D, APC, and others. It is also a research company.[11]