A significant expansion
		With offices in 17 countries now, GSE can provide its clients with global service, reliable levels of quality and assistance time after time. An example of which is Lafarge, whom GSE has supported on projects worldwide since 1996, with the construction of a plasterboard production facility in China and subsequently Poland and Germany. Other industrial groups include: Alcatel, Alstom, Auchan, Michelin, Lyreco, Geodis, and developers such as ProLogis, Gazeley Properties and Elgan have also benefited from GSE’s expertise in developing their international expansion. Thanks to our local team knowledge and the ability to enter and operate successfully in new geographical markets, GSE has developed a strong customer loyalty based upon commitment, openness and trust. GSE’s global resources provide teams with the specialist and human resource support required to successfully undertake and deliver construction projects throughout the world.

		CCR, the Regional Contractors’ Company (France)
		In 2003, GSE created a subsidiary company CCR, Regional Contractors Company with the objective to create in France a network of Regional Turnkey Contractors to support companies’ development needs. CCR manages smaller scale real estate projects, providing its clients with the benefit of GSE’s resources and expertise. The CCR network is now made of up 12 regionally based agency teams in the following regions: Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes, Ile-de-France, Brittany, Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, East and Languedoc-Roussillon.

		New directions for growth
		GSE increases its activity on the retail real estate market The retail sector is a growth sector for GSE which provides a global response to retail issues, ranging from land search to investor identification, for GSE can cover retail operations of all sizes for specialized developers. GSE and Urban Development GSE has taken a very upstream stance on potential service and activity operations, thus ensuring control over their development. GSE’s new involvement in this type of activity can range from real estate acquisition to turnkey delivery of new construction, and covers all the technical, legal and financial phases involved in new development: land acquisition, market and economic studies, zoning and pre-operational studies, administrative formalities (mixed-development packages, subdivisions, building permits, etc…). GSE can also provide general development of the zone, transfer to investors and/or promoters, building construction, and property management. One good example of this new orientation is the development underway in the future activity zone of Portes de Vémars (95 – France) which covers 180,000m² of buildings for logistics, express deliveries, small and medium-sized business, company seedbeds and common services, on some fifity hectares along the A1 motorway, 7 km north of the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport. Nazca, a subsidiary for photovoltaic development Within the scope of its policy to intensify R&D activity, the GSE Group has demonstrated its pro-active attitude to sustainable development by creating in 2007 a subsidiary that will be concentrating on the development of “turnkey” photovoltaic plants integrated in the rooftops of industrial and logistics buildings.  With the launch of this new activity, the GSE Group provides its clients both in France and abroad with the possibility of obtaining an integrated offer which combines building construction with the installation of a photovoltaic plant.