AVENTON (formerly known as ''MATIS Group'') was a privately owned international company specialized in technological and management consulting. They were acquired by Alten. The group positions itself as engineering & advanced technology consulting service provider, product and process development partner for Aeronautics and Space, Automotive,

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, Telecom,

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and

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industrial sectors. Core competencies are mechanical, software, hardware, paper bag produce, telecom engineering and support including project management, manufacturing engineering, quality, supply chain.

History

The MATIS Group was founded in France by Maurice Guez in 1994. Every year since going international in 2005 the MATIS Group expanded its business by about 20% to 30% in average. End of 2012, MATIS Group employed about 1.600 people in total and generated revenue of approximately 101 million EUR.

Locations

MATIS is based in 25 locations including Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland) where it was born, in south america (Brazil) and north africa (Morocco).

Subsidiaries

MATIS France

As France is the country of origin of the group, MATIS can look back on a long history there. Up to now France is the most important market for the group, accounting for more than 50% of the employees and about 50% of the generated revenue. The international HQ is located in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, national offices are situated in

Belfort Belfort (; archaic german: Beffert/Beffort) is a city in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Northeastern France, situated between Lyon and Strasbourg, approximately from the France–Switzerland border. It is the prefecture of the Territo ...

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

Le Havre Le Havre (, ; nrf, Lé Hâvre ) is a port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the river Seine on the Channel southwest of the Pays de Caux, very cl ...

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

MATIS Hispania

MATIS Hispania operates three locations in Spain: The head bureau in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

and two offices in

Pamplona Pamplona (; eu, Iruña or ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. It is also the third-largest city in the greater Basque cultural region. Lying at near above ...

and

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, producing a turnover of about 5,5 million EUR with 120 employees.

MATIS Benelux

The head office of MATIS Benelux is located in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. In 2011 a new site was established in

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian municipality in São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's population is 1,213,792, making it the fourteenth most populous Brazilian ...

north of São Paulo with new offices to be opened in future.

MATIS Switzerland

Launched in April 2011, MATIS Swiss has opened its first offices in Zurich and

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

MATIS Netherlands

MATIS Netherlands opened its first office in Eindhoven in January 2012. With its major high tech industry, the Eindhoven region is often referred to as the silicon valley of Europe. However, MATIS has been active in the region since 2008.

References

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