• October 2001 GRAVELEAU OPENS a COMPLETELY NEW AGENCY in NANTES On Thursday 27 September 2001, Transports GRAVELEAU opened the latest of its sites in Nantes, France, built in the locality of SAINT-AIGNAN de GRAND-LIEU, close to NANTES-ATLANTIQUE airport. This investment, totalling 3.04 million euros, enables the Nantes centre of the GRAVELEAU network (64 sites worldwide, including 52 in France) to double its operating capacity to 3,400 square metres, with a total of 42 loading bays. This new tool will enable the 53 staff members making up the local team – present in the neighbouring locality of BOUGUENAIS since 1976 – to accompany their customers' expansion, in ideal conditions of quality and safety. “In 25 years of commercial presence in the Nantes region”, said Philippe TARDIEU, who took over from Joel GRAVELEAU as Chairman of the company, “the NANTES agency has set up a national and international logistics platform enabling the local industrial companies to sell their products anywhere in France and elsewhere in Europe, and also on other continents. This is because the NANTES agency has major levels of intercontinental activity, which are made easier by the proximity of NANTES-ATLANTIQUE airport.” For the year 2001 as a whole, GRAVELEAU plans to invest a total of 13.7 million euros. Last May, the Group opened a new international site in MIONS (Rhone department) and very recently opened a new agency in the Paris Region, in CROISSY-BEAUBOURG (Seine-et-Marne). Immediately after the Nantes agency, GRAVELEAU also opened a completely new site on the outskirts of NANCY, in the locality of LUDRES.   All the news >>