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Gruau Global player in LCV MANUFACTURER - CONVERTER

Anticipating SOLUTIONS

HAS BECOME THE EUROPEAN LEADER IN LCV CONVERSION The expert skills of our 1,400 employees have made of Gruau a unique “multi-specialist” vehicle manufacturer and converter, which designs, produces and markets innovative, comprehensive transport and mobility solutions for light commercial vehicles. Our group is an independent family concern that owes its long life to an industrial yet people-focused approach. Our investment in skill and talent promotion, our ability to produce from single unit to small series and our flair for innovating through proximity and specialisation have positioned...

René Le Godais creates a horse-drawn carriage construction company in Laval, and hands it on to his son, René. René Gruau succeeds his father, continues industrial expansion and develops the first production management system. Marius Gruau, René Le Godais’ son-in-law, takes on the company and renames it Carrosserie Gruau. The small-scale manufacturer goes industrial when the army commissions 250 coaches. To make this industrialisation a success, René Gruau, his son, creates the first research department. At 28 years old, Patrick Gruau becomes head of Gruau and introduces Total Quality...

Introduction of the first bodywork kit distribution network. Gruau wins the Prix Frangais de la Qualite. External growth operations: Gruau Paris (1987), Ducarme (1991), Picot, Isberg becomes Gruau Le Mans, and creation of Gruau Lorraine (1998). Gruau becomes a vehicle manufacturer with a new collective urban transport solution: the Microbus. 2004 Launch of the Electric Commercial Vehicles line. Buyout of the Lanery Company in Creation of Gruau USA. An industrial site is set up in Warsaw and another in Algiers. The Electron II goes on the market. 2015 1996 Launch of the extended Kangoo:...

GRUAU: EUROPEAN LEADER IN LCV CONVERSION 21 sites 13 in France, 3 in Italy, 2 in Poland, 1 in Spain, 1 in Algeria and 1 in the USA vehicles converted each year Gruau subsidiaries Gruau Network 10,000 customers in every possible distribution channel Distributors in Europe A local network of conversion professional

The Gruau Group, present in all the light commercial vehicle niche markets, is structured around two major divisions: Urban Mobility and Medical Vehicles, providing its customers with the best possible transport and mobility solutions: I DEALERS I MANUFACTURERS I LARGE FLEET CORPORATIONS I TRADESMEN/ SMALL TO MID-SIZED FIRMS I ADMINISTRATIONS I PURCHASING GROUPS I GRUAU NETWORK > URBAN MOBILITY DIVISION Gruau Products Line This division covers Passenger Transport, Merchandise Transport (cold products, courier service), construction industry, Company Cars, specific vehicles and Fire Brigade...

MULTI-SPECIALIST IN LCV CONVERSION > PASSENGER TRANSPORT Passenger and Wheelchair-accessible Transport (individual and for groups) Minibuses - Minivans > MERCHANDISE TRANSPORT Isotherm and refrigerated vehicles Large Luton Vans; 3.5T Platform-cab/ 3.5T Chassis-Cab /+6T Large Van > ONSTRUCTION AND C PUBLIC WORKS VEHICLES Tipper trucks - Three-side tippers - Flatbeds - Mobile Workshop Vans - Crew Cabs Street-cleaning and road works vehicles (pavers / cradles / trailers, etc.) > SECURITY VEHICLES Police, Gendarmerie, Customs, Prisoner Transport and Army vehicles 8

OUR PURPOSE “In addition to car manufacturer's offers, to provide global, innovative functions and solutions in transport and mobility to all customers using private or commercial vehicles.” Logistock Service Pack Community and medical vehicles - Mobile offices Advertising / podium vehicles - Training units - Horse trailers > ELECTRIC VEHICLES Electron II range (courier service / vans / wheelchair accessible / tipper / funeral vehicles) > MEDICAL VEHICLES Ambulances Emergency vehicles Funeral vehicles > MANUFACTURER PRODUCTS Minivans Crew cabs - Tipper trucks Refrigerated units Production...

PROMOTING CUSTOMER SATISFACTION An extension of the Total Quality Approach introduced in 1985, the “GEO” (Gruau Operational Excellence) approach is the driving force of Gruau’s performance. This is a managerial concept based on a culture of continuous process improvement and the constant determination to motivate and train employees. ii'ID .action I l/t/tO'v'eA':\oa ty Gruau The Innovation approach embodies our desire to be creative, think and act differently and be trailblazers in every area: products, services, organisation, management, and so on. This voluntary, comprehensive, shared...

INNNOVATION: A STATE OF MIND A GENUINE CORPORATE CULTURE Just like quality, innovation is a priority across the board for the Gruau group, in its products, services, organisation and management alike. All in all, over 120 people are dedicated to the design of innovations and their industrialisation process – nearly 10% of the group’s workforce. > TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS These innovations give rise to new products, new production processes and new organisation methods. In 1998, Gruau revolutionised the conversion sector with a new method, gluing on bodywork parts instead of welding them....

OUR INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY > AN UNRIVALLED STRIKE FORCE With 21 specialised sites, a network of 125 distributors and various commercial and industrial partnerships, the Gruau Group provides its customers and prospects with a recognised, flexible industrial capacity enabling it to design and produce a range of vehicles from LCVs to mass-produced vehicles (at a rate of 50 per day). The group can thus convert over 54,000 vehicles each year for companies all over the world. The Group’s expertise can accommodate small series, shored up for nearly 20 years by the major construction markets, thus...

> LISTENING TO CUSTOMERS The Gruau Group’s specialist sales teams are organised to respond to large organisations, which include key international and national accounts, administrations and territorial authorities. But it also provides a Sales and After-Sales service with help from its distribution network. With its direct sales force, technical platform of pre-sales consultants, its distributor network and its subsidiaries within and outside France, not to mention its partnerships and commercial agreements abroad, Gruau provides its customers and prospects with a flexible, efficient sales...