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Top 25 Automotive industry groups based in France
RevenueBase identified 330 automotive industry groups headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 6,140 professional contacts across them, including 1,088 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers automotive industry groups headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest automotive industry groups based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 709 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée en 1960, Volkswagen Group France est la filiale française de Volkswagen AG.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 448 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bienvenue sur la page officielle Volkswagen France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 428 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GMD is a leading industrial player and the French leader in automotive subcontracting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mobilians représente la 5ème branche économique de France avec 180 entreprises de proximité et 560 emplois non délocalisables.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Automotive & Motorcycle Group : BMW, MINI, BMW Motorrad, Toyota, Lexus, Kia, Hyundai, Mistubishi, Honda Moto, Maxxess” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe Jeannin est un acteur historique de la mobilité couvrant les départements de l’Yonne (89), de l’Aube (10) et la Seine-et-Marne (77) avec 13 marques : Volkswagen, Audi…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Présent depuis une trentaine d’années à Montpellier avec la marque FORD, le Groupe Grim a depuis 1993 acquis et développé plusieurs concessions pour constituer l'un des plus…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Provides the best solution on intelligence services of the parts and services automotive market at an optimal price.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Née d’une rencontre entre deux hommes en 1962, Max HAVARD et Joseph MARANI, notre histoire n’a cessé de se développer depuis cette date.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé en 2020 Experts Groupe est un réseau d’experts de proximité à dimension humaine et nationale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Né en 1993 d'une société d'affrètement vieille de 90 ans, notre groupe s'est développé pour devenir un acteur incontournable de la région, avec 27 entités réparties en Bretagne…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le groupe NIORT a vu le jour il y a plus de 75 ans, au détour d’une petite rue du centre-ville de Rouen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1927, the "Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile"(Automotive Engineers Society) brings together all the specialists and enthusiasts of the automotive industry and its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RESEAU CLUBS BOUYGUES TELECOM is an automotive company based out of LE TECHNOPOLE 13 15, Meudon?le-de-France, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Driving Vision News (DVN) was founded 17 years ago by Hector Fratty, former Head of R&D at Valeo Lighting Systems, with a clear mission: to inform and connect the global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 50 ans, CISCAR propose des produits et des services adaptés aux métiers de l'automobile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondé en 1991, Easy Motors n'a cessé de gagner en professionnalisme, en variété et en qualité concernant nos véhicules et les marques que nous représentons.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “EQUIP’AUTO SAS organises and develops international-scale, industry-acclaimed trade events for the automotive industry, aftermarket and services sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ZANINI FRANCE is an automotive company based out of 15 RUE AMPERE, OYONNAX, Ain, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La FNA - Fédération Nationale de l’Automobile - est l’organisation professionnelle représentative des entrepreneurs artisans de l’automobile et de la mobilité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Fédération Française de Carrosserie, Industrie et Services fédère les 3 branches de la filière carrosserie : Constructeurs, Equipementiers et Réparateurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La diversité mais aussi la complémentarité de nos marques fait du Groupe ATLANTICO LA solution adaptée à vos besoins.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Organisation professionnelle représentant la filière aval de l'automobile, la Fédération de la Distribution Automobile (FEDA) porte depuis plus de cinquante ans la voix des…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GROUPE CORBI is an automotive company based out of Route de Montlieu, Montendre, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: automotive industry groups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names automotive industry groups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of automotive industry groups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name automotive industry groups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Automotive industry groups based in France at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 330 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among automotive industry groups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “automotive industry groups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names automotive industry groups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among automotive industry groups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,088 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names automotive industry groups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many automotive industry groups are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 330 automotive industry groups headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Volkswagen Group France, headquartered in Roissy-En-France, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most automotive industry groups?
Paris leads with 28 headquartered companies, followed by Clermont Ferrand (3) and Meudon (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,088 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 330 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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