Air Liquide

Headquarters location: 75, quai d'Orsay 75321 Paris Cedex 07 Tel. 33-1-40-62-55-55 Job offers, investor relations: www.airliquide.com Email: actionnaires@airliquide.com

Air Liquide belongs to shareholder country     % source Air Liquide 1.3 AXA 0.5 BNP (Banque Nationale de Paris) 0.5 Caisse d'Epargne, Groupe 0.8 CDC (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations) 2.1 CNP (Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance) 1.2 Air Liquide owns subsidiary country     % source Air Liquide 1.3 Arianespace Japan Air Gases 100 Les Echos	Brands name items photo compare the prices Air Liquide Ethishop Alm Ethishop Altal Ethishop Alux Ethishop Aqualung International Ethishop Azérus Ethishop Chemoxal Ethishop Falck Medico Ethishop Fosoxy Ethishop FRO Ethishop Hede Nielsen Ethishop Hélium Services Ethishop LOCSA Ethishop Lurgi Ethishop Messer Griesheim Ethishop Omasa Ethishop Omasa (50%) Ethishop Orkyn Ethishop Polargas Ethishop Sepal Ethishop Services Marine Industrie Ethishop Shuaiba Oxygen Ethishop Sidergal Ethishop Sorgal Ethishop Sudac Air Service Ethishop Taema Ethishop VitalAire Ethishop Shop local, ethical and at the best price on Ethishop !
« ETHICAL » RATING OF AIR_LIQUIDE , group and subsidiaries [click on the images below or on help for more information] 1% Job: 1% of company's jobs cut since 1998 4 Delinquency: 4 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency 8 Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 8 offshore financial center(s) 12 Sales: more than 12 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales 8 Net profit: more than 8 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 217 Top management: earns 217 times the median income in the United States (32000 US$/year) 4 Influence: 4 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying 1 Advertising & marketing: 1 dubious practice(s) Full profile >>>
Relevance: business & market share year business source 2008 Air Liquide is the largest maker of industrial gases in the world. Bloomberg 2006 Air Liquide sells 24% of the industrial gas bought in the world, world's largest producer. Les Echos 2006 Air Liquide produces 19% of the hydrogene consumed in the world, second-largest producer in the world. Les Echos World locations & Manufacturing country incentive : address & contact : production type source   Complexe carbochimique de Sasol : Usine d'oxygène Les Echos   Air Liquide Proprietary (81%) :   AFP   Air Liquide Argentina :   Société Béninoise des Gaz Industriels :   Air Liquide Brasil :   Société Burkinabe des Gaz Industriels (65%) :   Société Camerounaise d’Oxygène et d’Acétylène :   LOCSA S.A. :   Tianjin : Oxygène gazeux, azote et air comprimé Les Echos   Shanghai : unité de séparation des gaz de l'air   Wuxi : unité de séparation des gaz de l'air   Hangzhou : Azote, oxygène, argon   Air Liquide Shanghai :   Hang Yang Air Liquide (62%) :   Air Liquide Tianjin :   Société Congolaise des Gaz Industriels :   Société Ivoirienne d’Oxygène et d’Acétylène (73%) :   Suez, Caire, Alexandrie : Les Echos AFP   Société Gabonaise d’Oxygène et d’Acétylène :   L’Air Liquide Ghana Ltd :   Air Liquide India Holding :   Air Liquide Engineering India (51%) :   Shuaiba Oxygen : Air Liquide Luxembourg S.A. : Oxylux S.A. :   Société Malienne des Gaz Industriels :   Air Liquide Maroc (75%) :   Air Liquide Nigeria PLC (61%) : AFP La Oxigena Paraguaya S.A. (88%) :   Alpol Sp :   AFP   J-V avec Severstal : oxygene   Société Séngalaise d’Oxygène et d’Acétylène : Air Liquide Asia Pte Ltd : Carba Holding : Carbagas :   Société Togolaise des Gaz Industriels (70%) : : Production, unité de séparation des gazs de l'air Les Echos   Air Liquide Tunisie (60%) : Air Liquide Uruguay : The map of tax haven, secret accounts and shell companies Air Liquide is managed by year name photo position; compensation source 2005Potier, Benoît Chief Executive Officer; stock-options: 2.21 million Eu€; L'Expansio. 2004Glen, John Chief Financial Officer; Boursorama 2001Joly, Alain Chairman of the Monitoring Committee; 2001Potier, Benoît Chairman of the Executive committee; salary: 4 million Eu€; L'humanité 2000Bellon, Pierre Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 2000Bon, Michel Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 2000De Ybarra y Churruca, Emilio Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 2000Reuter, Edzard Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 2000Weatherstone, Dennis Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 1999De Gennes, Pierre-Gilles Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 1999De Royère, Edouard Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 1999Desmarest, Thierry Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 1999Joly, Alain Chief Executive Officer; stock-options: 45.6 million FF; Capital 1999Owen-Jones, Lindsay Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; 1999Peyrelevade, Jean Director; attendance fee: 0.18 million FF; Highest paid executives in 2007 Advertising & marketing year dubious practice : image source 2002 Arguable partnership: Palais de la Découverte: value: Communiquer sur les gaz, invisibles et mystérieux, et rassurer quant à leurs effets sur l'environnement.; 2000 slogan: Air Liquide, en deux mots la solution.; Dubious practices in 2007

Made by year employees <> social impact : country source 2006 -330 Internal restructuring: France Les Echos 2005 35900 2005 -71 Relocation: Fermeture de l'usine SAF de Châlons-en-Champagne. Un quart de la production sera transféré dans une usine d'Air Liquide en Roumanie.: France Les Echos 2003 31900 2002 30840 2000 1999 28600 1999 29000 1996 4263 France Alternativ. Layoff plans and labour conditions in 2007 Influence year purpose : intermediary/lobby : institution source 2002 : corruption active : amount: 21 thousand Eu€ : DCN Toulon translate AFP 1999 Deregulation and "maximum liberalization" through WTO, GATS : TABD (Transatlantic Business Dialogue) : : US Government / European Commission translate Corporate . 1999 Access to public services (privatization through GATS) : ERT (European Roundtable of Industrialists) : : European Commission translate Corporate . 1998 Regulation favorable to company's interests : Contribution to Candidate's Political Action Committee : amount: 10 thousand US$ : US President, Congress, Senate translate Center for. Influence in 2007 Financials year financial misdemeanor sales income buyback source 2007   11.8 1.12   billion Eu€ 2006 The European Commission fined Solvay, Arkema, Ausimont, Akzo Nobel, Kemira, Air Liquide, Degussa 388 million euros for cartel on the peroxide market between 1994 and 2000. Peroxydes are used to bleach the paper pulp and textiles. The companies "exchanged information, limited their production, shared markets and customers and fixed and controlled the prices".     2006   10.95 1   billion Eu€ 2006   0.009 billion Eu€ Cercle Fin. 2005   10.44 0.93   billion Eu€ 2005 Prácticas anticompetitivas en el mercado de oxígeno medicinal. La Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia argentina multó con $24,9 millones Air Liquide Argentina SA porque “simulaba competencia y llevaba a cabo acuerdos para elevar artificialmente los precios”.     INFOBAEpro. 2004   9.38 0.78   billion Eu€ 2004   0.02 million shares Cercle Fin. 2003 Entente sur les prix et répartition des marchés des gaz médicaux en France: amende de 4 millions d'euros infligée par le Conseil de la Concurrence     AFP 2003   8.39 0.73   billion Eu€ 2002   7.9 0.7   billion Eu€ 2002 Entente sur les prix aux Pays Bas: amende de 3,64 millions d'euros.     Cercle Fin. 2001   8.33 0.7   billion Eu€ 2000   8.1 0.65   billion Eu€ 1999   6.54 0.56   billion Eu€ 1998   7.11 0.6   billion US$ Financial delinquency in 2007

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