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JCDecaux company history timeline

1972

In the meantime, the company had continued to develop its furniture designs, adding new features such as public telephones in partnership with the French telephone service PTT. In 1972, the company also launched its Citylights information panels.

1973

1973: Founding of AP Systemés S.A. in France, airport advertising operator.

1980

With support from friend and then mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac, JCDecaux secured its first public toilet contract in Paris in 1980.

1980: Company launches first automatic toilets in Paris.

1981

The company launched a new product in 1981, an electronic bulletin board for city councils for posting messages and other information.

1982

In 1982, the company established its first operations in Germany, which quickly became one of its top markets.

JCDecaux installs its first furniture in Germany in Hamburg in 1982.

1988

The first scrolling billboards appeared in 1988, which increased the number of advertising panels without raising the number of structures.

1989

1989: Operations in United Kingdom are launched.

1990

In 1990, a few months before the reunification, JCDecaux would be one of the first companies to invest in Eastern Germany, with a contract with the city of Leipzig.

1991

1991: AP Systemés started its activity in Poland as advertising operator at Warsaw Okecie, currently Chopin Airport.

1992

In 1992, the company began extending the functionality of its columns, installing telephones, or recycling bins and the like in the fixtures.

1994

In 1994, JCDecaux launched a new generation of automatic public toilet, now made handicap-accessible.

1994: Company places first automatic toilets in the United Sta tes in San Francisco.

1997

In 1997, the company debuted its new Infobus system, installing real-time bus traffic information panels in its bus shelters.

1998

JCDecaux's full-fledged move into the United States came in 1998, when the company landed its first major contract with the Simon Properties Group, an operator of shopping malls.

The criticism led the city of Paris in 1998 to end the company's virtual monopoly on the city's street furniture market, opening up its tender process for the first time.

Infoscreen installs in 1998 the Group's first digital displays in the metro of Vienna.

1999

JCDecaux has had a presence in Poland since 1999 through two subsidiaries: JCDecaux Airport Polska and JCDecaux Neonlight.

In 1999, the group acquired Havas Media Communication and Avenir.

2001

In 2001, the company became the first to launch plasma-based airport screen displays.

In 2001, the company made a new acquisition, of Gewista in Austria.

In 2001, JCDecaux entered the Euronext Stock Exchange with an opening share price of €16,50.

2002

In 2002, the company borrowed a leaf from experiments elsewhere in Europe, notably in Amsterdam, launching fleets of self-service, advertising-supported bicycles in Vienna, Austria, and then in two cities in Spain.

In 2002, Jean-Claude Decaux passed the management of the company on to two of his three sons, Jean-Charles Decaux and Jean-François Decaux, who then became co-CEOs of the company.

2004

In 2004, JCDecaux Innovate is officially created.

2005

The year 2005 held a setback for the company when the contract for the city of New York (acknowledged as one of the world's most important outdoor advertising contracts) was awarded to a smaller Spanish rival.

2007

In 2007, JCDecaux won a tender for Paris’ street furniture and bicycle rental system.

2008

JCDecaux signs in 2008 its first contract with Dubai International Airport.

2011

In 2011, JCDecaux acquired MediaKiosk (a company that own kiosks in France) as the main shareholder.

2013

As part of the open data movement, JCDecaux made available its data system of the rental bike service in 2013.

2014

Other deals in the region would follow, and JCDecaux Middle East will grow to over 250 employees in 2014.

2017

2017: JCDecaux Airport Polska implemented at Warsaw Chopin Airport New Media Plan including digital screens.

2022

"JCDecaux S.A. ." International Directory of Company Histories. . Retrieved June 21, 2022 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/jcdecaux-sa

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