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24 January 2006
60 years young with the whole future ahead of them!
Sonepar France
Two Sonepar Sud-Est companies celebrated their 60th birthdays just a few days apart: Le Comptoir Lyonnais d’Electricité and Réal.
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 CLE: adaptation and continuity
With 36 branches throughout South-eastern France, 530 associates (including 70 representatives) and over 350 listed manufacturers, Le Comptoir Lyonnais d'Electricité (CLE) is alive and well! Founded by Maurice Monnet in 1945, the company rapidly developed in the post-war decades and joined the Sonepar group in 1972.
Quickly called by its acronym, “CLE” (pronounced “clay”) continuously kept pace from 1945 to 2005 with countless technological changes and developed skills and services entirely geared towards customers. Sales Director Yves Rosello states “we’ve always changed with the market and depending on our customers’ needs, but without ever losing sight of the values that the company has cultivated since its creation. At CLE, we have basic values that we have kept throughout the decades: loyalty, humanity, training, career advancement, etc. That vision still works today.” The next 60 years should fit in with that philosophy.
Réal: a people-centered company
Réal is also grounded in solid values. Roger and Gustave Réal set up the company in Annecy in 1945, and its history has been inseparable from that of electrical equipment distribution in Savoy ever since. “The company’s basic values, including fidelity, respect, commitment and attentiveness to customers, are based on its attachment to its local roots,” says Managing Director Didier Franceschi. Buoyed by its position as a major regional player in its field, strengthened by its joining the Sonepar group in 1979, Réal has made innovation its trademark. “Our focus on people makes us synonymous with reactions to our market and lets us be a kind of laboratory for all the group’s subsidiaries,” he continues. “The Climatic branch, which is open to new renewable energy sources, demonstrates our desire to anticipate future markets, especially through training and accompanying contractors. The tools might change, but the philosophy stays the same,” says Mr. Franceschi, who sees in each customer “first and foremost a human being”. |
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