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DESCRIPTION OFTHEGROUP, ANDITSSTRATEGY, MARKETS ANDBUSINESSES
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LEADER IN AN INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE
2. 3 Leadership in our five sectors
To become the unrivalled leader in energy management in 2011,
Schneider Electric is leveraging its broad and consistent portfolio
of business, which enables it to satisfy the requirements of its
customers thanks to its innovative products, integrated and
intelligent solutions and its growing range of services.
Since 2011, the Group’s activities have been organised into fi ve
businesses that meet the exacting needs of its customers:
•Power, which covers all low voltage markets, installation and
control systems, and renewable energies: electrical switchboards,
Voice-Data-Image equipment, wiring, air circuit breakers, etc.;
•Energy, which specialises in medium voltage applications,
especially for infrastructure, utilities and industrial or commercial
buildings: circuit breakers, medium/low voltage capacitators,
transformers, medium voltage cells, SCADA – supervision control
and data acquisition – distribution management systems;
•Buildings, which provides assistance for industrial or commercial
buildings to become more energy effi cient using automation and
security systems (programmable regulators, centralised building
management systems, camera sensors, security monitoring
equipment);
•Industry, which provides complete solutions for industrial
automation and control: advanced UPS HMI – human-machine
interface – terminals, power supply, push buttons and indicator
lights, optimum temperature control, customised sensors;
•IT, which specialises in critical power for data centres: monophase
and (three-phase UPS, server cabinets, network power control,
in-row cooling systems).
The Group therefore has many levers for growth, given the global
need for energy effi ciency, the development of smart electricity grids
and the rapid rise of emerging economies.
The Power business
Number1 worldwide in low voltage
Number2 worldwide in installation systems and
control
This business represents the backbone of all the Group’s activities:
its products can be found in almost all the complete solutions offered
by the Group’s other businesses to their customers, especially in
the residential and non-residential buildings sectors.
For industrial, commercial and residential buildings, the Power
business offers a very wide range of circuit breakers, transformers,
and busbar trunking.
Products for the residential market include lighting and heating
management devices (sockets, switches, drives, thermostats, etc.),
control systems for doors, gates and shutters; security, fi re alarm
and intruder alert systems; and Voice-Data-Image networks that
bring phone, TV and internet capabilities into every room.
The Power business has several levers for growth: the development
of energy effi ciency, stimulated by the new regulatory requirements
and rise in energy prices, opportunities related to the emergence
of the smart grid, the considerable energy needs of emerging
economies, growth in renewable energies, and increased usage of
electric vehicles and their charging equipment.
The Energy business
Number1 worldwide in medium voltage
In November2009, Schneider Electric and Alstom announced their
planned acquisition of Areva T&D, with the intention of transferring
the transmission business to Alstom and transferring the distribution
business to Schneider Electric. Finalised in June 2010, this
acquisition enhanced Schneider Electric’s medium tension portfolio
and in particular, strengthened its position in medium voltage
automation networks, mainly for electro-intensive customers and
state owned electrical utilities companies.
In addition, the agreement reached in October 2010 for the
acquisition of 50% of Electroshield-TM Samara further strengthened
Schneider Electric’s position on the medium voltage market, as well
as its presence in Russia.
The growth of the new Energy business will mainly come from
the development of the smart grid, the rising energy needs of the
new economies (which already represent 45% of revenue for this
business), and the need to modernise electricity grids in developed
economies.
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