2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
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2. 3 Leadership in our five sectors<br />
To become the unrivalled leader in energy management in 2011,<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> is leveraging its broad and consistent portfolio<br />
of business, which enables it to satisfy the requirements of its<br />
customers thanks to its innovative products, integrated and<br />
intelligent solutions and its growing range of services.<br />
Since 2011, the Group’s activities have been organised into fi ve<br />
businesses that meet the exacting needs of its customers:<br />
• Power, which covers all low voltage markets, installation and<br />
control systems, and renewable energies: electrical switchboards,<br />
Voice-Data-Image equipment, wiring, air circuit breakers, etc.;<br />
• Energy, which specialises in medium voltage applications,<br />
especially for infrastructure, utilities and industrial or commercial<br />
buildings: circuit breakers, medium/low voltage capacitators,<br />
transformers, medium voltage cells, SCADA – supervision control<br />
and data acquisition – distribution management systems;<br />
• Buildings, which provides assistance for industrial or commercial<br />
buildings to become more energy effi cient using automation and<br />
security systems (programmable regulators, centralised building<br />
management systems, camera sensors, security monitoring<br />
equipment);<br />
• Industry, which provides complete solutions for industrial<br />
automation and control: advanced UPS HMI – human-machine<br />
interface – terminals, power supply, push buttons and indicator<br />
lights, optimum temperature control, customised sensors;<br />
• IT, which specialises in critical power for data centres: monophase<br />
and (three-phase UPS, server cabinets, network power control,<br />
in-row cooling systems).<br />
The Group therefore has many levers for growth, given the global<br />
need for energy effi ciency, the development of smart electricity grids<br />
and the rapid rise of emerging economies.<br />
DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUP, AND ITS STRATEGY, MARKETS AND BUSINESSES<br />
LEADER IN AN INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE<br />
The Power business<br />
Number 1 worldwide in low voltage<br />
Number 2 worldwide in installation systems and<br />
control<br />
This business represents the backbone of all the Group’s activities:<br />
its products can be found in almost all the complete solutions offered<br />
by the Group’s other businesses to their customers, especially in<br />
the residential and non-residential buildings sectors.<br />
For industrial, commercial and residential buildings, the Power<br />
business offers a very wide range of circuit breakers, transformers,<br />
and busbar trunking.<br />
Products for the residential market include lighting and heating<br />
management devices (sockets, switches, drives, thermostats, etc.),<br />
control systems for doors, gates and shutters; security, fi re alarm<br />
and intruder alert systems; and Voice-Data-Image networks that<br />
bring phone, TV and internet capabilities into every room.<br />
The Power business has several levers for growth: the development<br />
of energy effi ciency, stimulated by the new regulatory requirements<br />
and rise in energy prices, opportunities related to the emergence<br />
of the smart grid, the considerable energy needs of emerging<br />
economies, growth in renewable energies, and increased usage of<br />
electric vehicles and their charging equipment.<br />
The Energy business<br />
Number 1 worldwide in medium voltage<br />
In November 2009, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> and Alstom announced their<br />
planned acquisition of Areva T&D, with the intention of transferring<br />
the transmission business to Alstom and transferring the distribution<br />
business to <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>. Finalised in June 2010, this<br />
acquisition enhanced <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s medium tension portfolio<br />
and in particular, strengthened its position in medium voltage<br />
automation networks, mainly for electro-intensive customers and<br />
state owned electrical utilities companies.<br />
In addition, the agreement reached in October 2010 for the<br />
acquisition of 50% of Electroshield-TM Samara further strengthened<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s position on the medium voltage market, as well<br />
as its presence in Russia.<br />
The growth of the new Energy business will mainly come from<br />
the development of the smart grid, the rising energy needs of the<br />
new economies (which already represent 45% of revenue for this<br />
business), and the need to modernise electricity grids in developed<br />
economies.<br />
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