Who are we?

Companeo is the European leader in helping professionals find suppliers.

Companeo's vocation is to allow SME's decision makers, self-employed professionals, retailers, associations, joint production committees and local communities to find suppliers of services and products to develop and manage their activities free of charge and with no obligation.

To do so, COMPANEO has selected 5,000 Agreed Suppliers offering hundreds of services and equipments on the 6 major activity sectors important to decision makers:

• Commercial development: Marketing, Sales, Communication, ...

• Business Management: Insurance, Finances, Accounting, ...

• IT & Telecommunications: Internet, Phone Systems, Networking, Maintenance, Computers, ...

• General Services: Furniture & Office Equipment, Transport & Logistics, Vending Machines, ...

• Commercial Vehicles: Purchase, Long Term Rental, Financing, Leasing, Second Hand, ...

Covering 4 countries, COMPANEO offers its service helping professionals find suppliers over the Internet and on the phone with experts to talk to.

Companeo is 100% self-reliant from its Companeo Agreed Suppliers. A guarantee to its users of total independence in the choice of suppliers, the selection process, and Companeo's advice.

KEY FIGURES 01/01/2011: Creation in 2000 Staff: 160 employees Requests for quotes: 3,000,000 requests for quotes processed Users registered: 1,000,000 Agreed Suppliers: 5,000

EUROPEAN BUSINESS AWARDS 2011
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COMPANEO win an EUROPEAN BUSINESS AWARD 2011 in Barcelona, SPAIN.

« Winning this great award for a fast growing company like Companeo gives us a lot of pride. This is a tribute to all the Companeo teams, our 1 million users and 5,000 suppliers across Europe. »
Laurent HORWITZ, CEO and Co-founder COMPANEO

These awards will go to the outstanding companies that best demonstrate exceptional financial returns, strong growth and innovation strategies, and market leadership in its sector. Judges will look for evidence of inventiveness, ethical credentials, good stakeholder relationships and long term planning balanced by the flexibility to deliver consistent results in dynamic market conditions.

Learn more about the European Business Awards

Companeo is a member of the DMA (Direct Marketing Association)
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Companeo, as a members of the DMA (Direct Marketing Association) is required to adhere to the DM Code of Practice (3rd Edition). The Code applies to all direct marketing activities. Compliance with it is mandatory for all Association members. The DMA approved membership stands for professionalism and trustworthiness.

The Direct Marketing Association UK is Europe's largest trade association in the marketing and communications sector. They manage programmes that protect consumers against bad practice and increase consumer trust, including the DMA Preference Services. The DMA also set up the DM Commission, which monitors conduct in the industry.

Learn more about the Direct Marketing Association


Companeo : verify and validate by The World Chambers Network®
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ChamberTrust ® is a trusted search engine, exclusively focused on companies, their activities and product lines. Apart from the extra 'peace of mind' for the visitors to a sealed company's web site.

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European Management Team:
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• Laurent HORWITZ - CEO
• Christophe NOTTEBAERT - Area Manager Northern Europe
• Hugues HUSSON DE SAMPIGNY - CFO
• Denis RIOLS - European Marketing Director, associate
• Philippe DOKES - European Product Director, associate
• David DELPUECH - CTO

Companeo Limited Privacy Policy Companeo Limited (we or us) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our website terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Companeo Limited of Bracton House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London. Information we may collect from you We may collect and process the following data about you: • information that you provide by filling in any forms on our site www.companeo.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use parts of our site or our entire site, subscribing to our site or posting material on our site.  We may also ask you for information when you make an enquiry about any product or service marketed or promoted by us or when you report a problem with our site; • if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence; • we may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them; • details of your visits to our site, including (but not limited to) traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access; • and details about the business on whose behalf you are making an enquiry about any product or service marketed or promoted by us, including (without limitation) the business name, address, email address and telephone number and details relevant to the purchasing enquiry such as turnover and number of employees. IP addresses and cookies We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report information to our supplier partners and aggregated information to our advertising partners.  Such aggregated information is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file that is stored on the hard drive of your computer.  Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.  They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.  They enable us: • to estimate our audience size and usage pattern; • to store information about your preferences and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests; • to speed up your searches; • and to recognise you when you return to our site. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertising partners may also use cookies, over which we have no control. Where we store your personal data The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA).  It may also be processed by individuals operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers.  Such individuals maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services.  By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.  We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.  Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.  We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure.  Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. Uses made of the information We use information held about you in the following ways: • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; • to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or that we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes; • to allow you to participate in interactive features of our site, when you choose to do so; • and to notify you about changes to our site. We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to clarify your requirements, measure customer service and satisfaction and provide you with information about goods and services that may be of interest to you and they or we may contact you about these by post, telephone or facsimile or, subject to clauses 4.3 and 4.4 below, email or SMS. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those that were the subject of a previous sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have previously consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data. We will disclose information about identifiable individuals to our supplier partners.  We will not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertising partners but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users.  We may also use such aggregate information to help our advertising partners reach the kind of audience they want to target.  We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertising partners' wishes by displaying their advertisements to that target audience. Disclosure of your information We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985. We may disclose your personal information to third parties: • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; • if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; • or if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply our website hterms of use and/or other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our customers or others.  This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Your rights You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.  We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.  You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at: COMPANEO - River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our supplier partners, advertising partners and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. Access to information The Act gives you the right to access information held about you.  Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.  Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. Changes to our privacy policy Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to: • Address: River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London.

Companeo Limited Acceptable Use Policy This acceptable use policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.companeo.com (our site). This acceptable use policy applies to all users of, and visitors to, our site. Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in this acceptable use policy, which supplement our website terms of use. www.companeo.com is a site operated by Companeo Limited (we or us).  We are incorporated and registered in England under company number 05604379 and our principal place of business is River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London. Registered Office Address: River House, 1st Floor, 143-145 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AB London Registered number: 05604379 Prohibited uses You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site: • in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation; • in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect; • for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way; • to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material that does not comply with our content standards; • to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of spam or similar solicitation; • or to knowingly transmit any data or send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware. You also agree: • not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of our website terms of use; • and not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt: • any part of our site; • any equipment or network on which our site is stored; • any software used in the provision of our site; • or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party. Interactive services We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, without limitation: • blogs • bulletin boards and RSS feeds, podcasts and similar. Where we do provide any interactive service, we will provide clear information to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical). We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third parties when they use any interactive service provided on our site and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the light of those risks.  However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service we provide on our site and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the service is moderated or not. Where we do moderate an interactive service, we will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise. Content standards These content standards apply to any and all material that y ou contribute to our site (contributions) and to any interactive services associated with it. You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as the letter. The standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole. Contributions must: • be accurate (where they state facts); • be genuinely held (where they state opinions); • and comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted. Contributions must not: • contain any material that is defamatory of any person; • contain any material that is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory; • promote sexually explicit material; • promote violence; • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; • infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person; • be likely to deceive any person; • be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence; • promote any illegal activity; • be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety; • be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person; • be used to impersonate any person or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person; • give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; •or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act, such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse. Suspension and termination We will determine in our discretion whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through your use of our site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with this acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our site and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions: •immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site; •immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site; •issuance of a warning to you; •bringing legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach; •taking further legal action against you; • and/or disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary. We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of this acceptable use policy.  The responses described in this policy are not limited and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate. Changes to the acceptable use policy We may revise this acceptable use policy at any time by amending this page.  You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you.  Provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site may also supersede some of the provisions contained in this acceptable use policy.

Experts guide you through your selection of Suppliers!

Companeo's team of experts is at your disposal free of charge on 0800 988 5605 to guide you in your search for suppliers. They know every offer of products or services and their associated Agreed Suppliers.

Companeo's experts are specialized in finding the right suppliers. They all have years of experience in the SME sector and have been trained on every offer available on the Companeo's website.

Confronted to business decision makers' requests every day, they can easily identify the offers and suppliers matching the needs of a company according to their budget, planning or any other specifics.

If you have any question, phone them, they can help you for free!

A free service with no obligation!

Companeo guides you free of charge and with no obligation in your search for suppliers:

• Access to our Companeo Agreed Suppliers selection is free on www.companeo.com.
  
• Advice and assistance from Companeo's experts is free too.
  
• Transmission of the Agreed Suppliers contact details is free of charge.
• The creation of a personalized account on www.companeo.com with detail of all your requests history is free.
• No matter if you start a commercial relationship with our Companeo Agreed Suppliers or not, all our services are free of charge to the users.
  

Companeo doesn't charge you anything!



How does Companeo make money?

• Companeo is 100% self-reliant from Companeo Agreed Suppliers.
  
• Companeo is remunerated by the Suppliers they have selected for connecting them to potential customers.
  
• This remuneration is linked to communication actions Companeo conducts on its users.
• This is a guarantee to Companeo users of total independence in the selection of the suppliers.