Take part in the Victories for Sustainable Growth 2021!

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CroissancePlus, KPMG, BNP Paribas and

Le Figaro

on Monday kicked off the 2021 edition of the Victories for Sustainable Growth.

This prize rewards a fast-growing company that manages to reconcile its economic performance with a strong environmental or societal commitment.

The objective of this competition is to help identify growing companies that aim to grow and become mid-size companies (ETI).

"With the Victories of Sustainable Growth,

underlines Thibaut Bechetoille, president of CroissancePlus,

we want to promote the growth of our ambitious and responsible entrepreneurial nuggets, and support their change of scale to make France a country of

scale-up

."

Inspirational models

“Whatever their status (start-up, SME, ETI),

explains Clotilde Quilichini, Director of the Île-de-France

corporate

clientele at BNP Paribas,

these companies deserve to be honored as models by their contribution to growth. of GDP and job creation in our country.

The highlighting, in this edition, of companies that have integrated environmental and societal issues is in line with our approach to supporting companies in all their transformation and development projects. ”

“Our companies need inspiring hypergrowth models to grow,”

says François Bloch, CEO of KPMG France.

We absolutely must encourage these profiles, promote them to the French and international entrepreneurial ecosystem and show that growth and impact can go hand in hand. ”

At least 10 million euros in turnover

The Victories of Sustainable Growth are open to independent companies (that is to say, which are not subsidiaries of a group) and whose head office is located in France.

They must have achieved a turnover of at least 10 million euros in their last closed financial year.

Their activity must have grown by an average of 10% over the last three closed financial years.

The numbers must also have increased during this period.

Shareholders' equity must be positive over the last four financial years.

Finally, application files will be assessed based on the way in which environmental and societal issues are integrated into the business plan.

Until Friday April 30

Applications will be received online until midnight Friday April 30.

At the end of the examination of the files by the four organizers, twenty semi-finalists will be selected and submitted to the jury made up of representatives of the organizers and qualified personalities

(see box)

.

The jury will meet on May 12 to choose the five finalists.

They will follow coaching sessions to prepare their participation in the closing ceremony which will take place in Paris on June 29, in the auditorium of

Le Figaro

.

This ceremony will be broadcast live on the

Figaro

website

, lefigaro.fr.

The winner will be chosen live during this evening by the joint vote of the jurors, the public and Internet users.

In 2019, Les Victoires de la Growth distinguished 2CRSI.

The company, founded and managed by Alain Wilmouth, designs and manufactures computer servers with high technical and environmental performance.

In 2018, the winner was Ogury, a mobile phone advertising targeting platform created by Jean Canzoneri and Thomas Pasquet.

In 2017, Paolin Pascot, co-founder and CEO of Agriconomie, won for his website selling agricultural equipment and products.