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Our values

Discover the 8 key values of SONEPAR: the Passion, the Respect, the People, the Customers, the Synergies, the Profitability, the Future and “the Reference”

Our co-workers live daily these values and work together, fervently, to improve the valuable chain and the partnership between manufacturer, the customers and the users.

  • Passion

    "True passions provide strength, which in turn are the source of courage". Luigi Pirandello

    • Commitment in everyday work: the strength of our engagement
    • Keep on learning and sharing our know-how
    • Enthusiasm about our products and services
    • Desire to contribute to making things better and innovate

  • Respect

    "The simplest way for someone to show respect is to listen". Michael Zöllner

    • Basics of all our relationships and guarantee for our position in the long term
    • An attitude: listen and learn
    • A behavior: show respect to win respect
    • Create trustful relationships to reinforce our added value

  • People

    "Everyone thinks he is “one”, that is not true, we are all “several". Luigi Pirandello

    • The heart of our business (in touch with both customer and supplier)
    • Choose, train, motivate and involve our co-workers: the key to the group development
    • Strengthen the pride of belonging to Sonepar through operating companies

  • Customers

    "To be of service with all our power is the noblest task on earth". Sophocle

    • Focus of our attention: listen to them, identify their needs, organize ourselves to satisfy them better
    • Be the technical support for our customers
    • Our customer-service quality: an added value to our suppliers
    • Provide a service of proximity

  • Synergies

    "To get together is a start; to stay together is progress; to work together is success". Henry Ford

    • Promote contracts, organize processes
    • Share ideas, know-how, experiences: learn from each other to increase our efficiency
    • Look for solutions together
    • Make profit of the many local cultures

  • Profit

    "Profit is not the final goal of a company, but the basic condition of its durability. And the best measure of its success". Olivier Lecerf

    • Our guarantee for the future to our suppliers and customers
    • Allow us to develop, invest and remain independent
    • Result of our efforts and work in common

  • Future

    "A glance at the past only makes sense if it provides a vision of the future". Konrad Adenauer

    • Seize opportunities
    • Take up challenges whenever one appears
    • Guarantee the perenity of Sonepar: profitable growth and lasting development

  • "La Référence"

    "A great man should not be judged on the merit of his qualities, but rather on what he accomplishes with these". La Rochefoucauld

    • To be acknowledged by customers, respected by suppliers and imitated by competitors
    • An everyday challenge on the field
    • A source of progress for each and every one
    • To be a quality leader
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