Intership report

By Aurélie COURDEROT

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REP 4th year

September 2010

I/ Describe briefly your company’s sector of activity, its size (a small agency or a large company) and its general working atmosphere.

1/ The Company

I completed an internship at Eurosites Le groupe in Paris. This company offers to large companies, sites and rooms in Ile de France and in the areas (350 rooms and 4 auditoriums in total), to organize their seminars, business meetings, conferences, training… In Ile de France, the group has 23 sites and the administrative headquarters (where I did my intership) has the most of employees, (38 and sometimes 3 or 4 trainees). So, it’s a large company. Before, they only rented rooms and today, the group develops a new activity: they organize events in their site. Eurosites was founded in 1992 by Pascal Henry. Their type of clientele is all the sector of activity (industry, public sector, medias, large schools, fabric, cars constructors, telecommunications…); their customers are prestigious like their sites. The group has too partners which help them during the organization of events.

2/ The Workplace

In general, the working atmosphere is good. The employees are nice and very helping when there is a problem. On the head of the company, there is a president and a MD. After, we find 7 departments (Human Resources, Communication, Sales department, Accounts department, Exploitation and Purchase, Training department); on the head of the communication department, where I was, Nathalie Leduc works alone. Sometimes, there are some trainees but she has to do all alone. The main objective of the company is to become the leader in rooms renting sector. Eurosites looks for purchase more customers and to have more market share in this business.
For this objective, Eurosites wants to be more present in France with more rooms to rent.
Moreover, the company has to diversify its communication policy thanks to the