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Saint-Gobain

Tour Saint-Gobain, France · Founded 1665

Saint-Gobain was founded in 1665 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, and is based in Tour Saint-Gobain, France.

Key facts

Legal form
public limited company with a board of directors (n.o.s.)
Employees
171,000 (2019)
Listed
Euronext Paris
Revenue
EUR 47,944,000,000 (2023)

About

French building material company

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In context

We hold 9 other companies founded in the 1660s. 6 of them have closed, after a median of 134 years, and 3 have no closure recorded.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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