Turnover: 33.36 billion EUR (2022)

Country: Germany

The Linde Group is a German multinational chemical company founded in 1879. It is the world's largest industrial gases company in terms of market share and sales.

Today, the Linde Group has two main areas of activity: gases (industrial and medical gases) and engineering. In industrial gases, the Group operates under a number of well-known brands, including Linde, AGA, BOC, TIG, MOX, Afrox and PanGas.

  • Linde Gas supplies industrial gases, medical gases, specialty gases, refrigerants and other chemical products.
  • Linde Engineering designs and builds large chemical plants for the production of industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

Linde in figures - source(Linde-gas)

  • in 2019: 800 sales outlets
  • Linde France in 2019: 600 employees
  • Linde France in 2019: 25,000 customers
  • Linde France in 2019: sales of 250 million euros

Financial Data

DUNS: 392631248

Legal Name: LINDE FRANCE

Address: 70 AV TONY GARNIER LES JARDINS DU LOU BATIMENT 5, 69007 LYON 7EME

Number of employees: Entre 500 et 999 salariés (2021)

Capital: 40 064 950 EUR


Financial Data:

Year 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Turnover 344 012 012 288 845 456 265 162 425 275 849 568 268 309 419 263 726 535 259 369 782 256 870 156
Gross margin (€) 327 709 273 281 169 456 261 941 391 271 638 857 266 413 214 259 907 958 257 161 862 254 878 555
EBITDA (€) 104 306 980 90 963 170 74 731 636 65 917 664 55 973 140 59 022 935 60 415 406 60 398 723
Operating profit (€) 69 105 201 58 453 470 41 005 372 35 608 278 28 386 688 31 291 275 33 315 125 32 776 720
Net profit (€) 50 745 702 34 142 447 28 399 070 322 683 25 717 082 -3 004 566 20 990 687 7 608 245
Turnover growth rate (%) 19,1 8,9 -3,9 2,8 1,7 1,7 1 -
Ebitda margin rate (%) 30,3 31,5 28,2 23,9 20,9 22,4 23,3 23,5
Operating margin rate (%) 20,1 20,2 15,5 12,9 10,6 11,9 12,8 12,8
Working Capital (turnover days) 13,1 11,9 -10,7 -42,9 -24,3 -28,7 -23,6 -28,3
Working Capital requirements (turnover days) 42,1 43,1 55,3 51,2 47,4 45 46,2 40,1
Net margin (%) 14,8 11,8 10,7 0,1 9,6 -1,1 8,1 3
Added value / Turnover (%) 44,3 47,1 49,1 45,2 43,7 45,6 47,8 48,5
Wages and social charges (€) 44 190 961 41 886 225 49 263 386 53 281 577 55 962 572 54 739 136 56 602 040 58 024 485
Salaries / Turnover (%) 12,8 14,5 18,6 19,3 20,9 20,8 21,8 22,6

Company Managers:

Position First Name Last Name Age Linkedin
Directeur général délégué David, Christian Grange 53
Administrateur Serkan Sen 42
Administrateur Matthieu, Patrice Schirlin 50
Administrateur Claire, Elisabeth, Marie Saulais 49
Autre Abdon, Jean-pierre Planes 64

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