Profile: JCDecaux SA (JCDX.PA)

JCDecaux SA is a France-based outdoor advertising company. It divides its business into three main sectors: Advertising on Street Furniture, Billboards and Transport Advertising. The Company commissions and maintains a range of street furniture items, including bus and tram shelters, automatic outdoor toilets, self service bicycle racks, multi-service columns, newspaper kiosks, city light panels, public benches and public rubbish bins. Billboard advertising includes scrolling billboard panels, as well as traditional billboard systems. Transport advertising includes advertising on vehicles, airports and in railway transit stations. As of December 31, 2011, the Company was 70.51%-owned by JCDecaux Holding. The Company has operations in Europe, Asia-Pacific region, Middle East and Russia, among others.