Sign up free →

KONE France

KONE France is the French subsidiary of KONE Corporation, the Finnish elevator and escalator group, providing elevator and escalator installation, maintenance and repair services across France. It operates through registered entities based in Nice and a network of local agencies, including its subsidiary ATS for custom elevator work.

Also known as: KONE Plc, KONE ASCENSEURS SAS, WIIT KONE

242 public people · 165 tender wins · 100 verified market signals

Founded1910
CountryFrance
RegionFrance · Europe · EMEA
KONE deskEurope
HeadquartersZAC de l Arenas – Aéropôle – 455 promenade des Anglais, 06200 Nice, France
CEOPhilippe Delorme
Employees2,778
Fleet (est.)~130,000 units
Reported revenueEUR 565,197,833 (FY2024); US$611,759,095 (translated from EUR at ECB average rates); one legal company's accounts, not the whole country market
Equipment brandsKONE
Market positionPrevious market-position claim withdrawn pending evidence: the legacy ranking, approximately EUR 713 million revenue, 3,200 employees, 130,000 maintained units and 21% market share were not supported by a cited same-year, same-scope source. Use the separately sourced legal-entity annual accounts for revenue; do not infer a French market ranking or market share from this entry.
Operates inFrance
Websitehttps://kone.com/fr

Public people

People & organisation

Across tracked career histories this company is hiring more people than it is losing — 136 tracked people, 1,628 reactions earned on their posts, 34 in leadership roles, a median 3 years in role, 28 external hires, 33 internal promotions, 4 tracked departures over the last two years.

Recent arrivals and where they came from

Where their people come from

Where leavers went

Who is heard in the market

Based on tracked public career histories linked to this company and refreshed weekly. This is a sample of the organisation, not its headcount.

Tender wins (165)

121 lift contracts, 40 building projects with a lift package and 4 contracts filed under a general works code.

EU Procurement Awards

10 public contracts recorded (2025-12-15 – 2026-07-30). Source: Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the EU public procurement journal.

Market signals

Who wins lift work in France

7,766 tender notices · 6,299 building permits · independents hold 16.7% of named wins

By type of work

France by type of work

France market

Compare markets — new-installation

Elevator new-installation contract notices over the last 24 months, France against comparable markets.

France national portal — boamp.fr

7,544 lift notices published on France’s own procurement portal, shown in the original language.

KONE Corporation in other markets

Other elevator companies in France