Mouvement des Entreprises de France

Mouvement des Entreprises de France
Formation	1945 (CNPF), 1998 (Medef)
Type	Union of employers
Headquarters	55 avenue Bosquet, 75007 Paris
Location	Paris, France
Leader	Laurence Parisot
Website	www.medef.fr

The Mouvement des Entreprises de France or MEDEF (in English: "Movement of the French Enterprises") is the largest union of employers in France. It was formerly known as the Conseil National du Patronat Français or CNPF (in English: "National Council of the French Employers").

It has more than 700,000 member firms, 90% are from SME, with fewer than 50 employees. MEDEF is engaged in lobbying all decision-makers at the local, regional, national and European levels. ^[1]

Every year, MEDEF International organises a number of delegations of French business leaders with concrete projects to targeted countries, especially developing countries.

MEDEF states that they endorse “sustainable development”, raising companies’ awareness to the fact that protection of the planet may also be numbered among their competitive advantages.

Its current president is Laurence Parisot, CEO of IFOP. Previous president was Ernest-Antoine Seillière. ^[2] Guillaume Sarkozy, the brother of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, is a senior executive of the MEDEF.

See also

• Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe (UNICE)
• Union des industries et métiers de la métallurgie (UIMM)
• Lisbon Agenda

References

1. ^ MEDEF Website
2. ^ Satire and sarcasm in the french show Les Guignols de l'info

External links

• Official site of the MEDEF