Premium Company Profile: Gaz de France

Gaz de France's (GDF) strategy is to be innovative and a responsible energy leader in Europe. The group identifies, analyzes and ranks the challenges it faces. It focuses on matching the challenges and stakeholder expectations.

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Highlights

Gaz de France (GDF) is primarily engaged in the exploration, production and distribution of natural gas and is the leading natural gas distributor in Europe.

The company recorded revenues of E27, 642 during the fiscal year 2006, an increase of 21% over 2005. The operating income was E3,608 million during the fiscal year 2006 compared with E2, 821 million in 2005. The net profit was E2,298 million in the fiscal year 2006 compared with E1, 782 million in 2005.

GDF has a power generation capacity of 2,650 megawatts (MW). GDF's retail energy marketing operations include the marketing of gas, electricity and related products to residential and small commercial customers in France. In France, GDF sold 3.3 billion KWh on the electricity market and 641 billion KWh of natural gas in 2006.

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