1964
Jean-Claude Decaux invents the new concept and business model of Street Furniture with bus shelters financed by advertising. JCDecaux is born, and also a brand new 2 m2 advertising format.
Lyon (France) will be the first city to adopt JCDecaux's business model.
1971
JCDecaux installs its street furniture in Lisbon. JCDecaux Portugal becomes the first subsidiary in a non-French-speaking country.
1966
2 years after its creation, JCDecaux expands out of France, and installs its bus shelters in Brussels (Belgium), where is created the first subsidiary.
1967
The firm establishes its headquarters in Plaisir, near Paris. 50 years later in 2014, the site welcomed over 700 employees of more than 100 professions, from the poster preparation to the R&D.
1972-1982
Innovations for brands and cities
1972
JCDecaux revolutionizes the advertising panels by replacing all the sheet metals by back-lit panels.
The advertisement becomes more colourful and luminous, able to render the finest details of photographs, which were just beginning to be used in advertising.
1972
Wishing to beautify its growing urban environment and to provide more services to the general public, Paris adopts in 1972 JCDecaux's bus shelters.
1975
JCDecaux designs new signposts and offers them to cities together with its bus shelters and City Information Panels. The French government would make them the standard for all signage in France.
1980
Designed to be perfectly clean and operational and already energy and water saving, JCDecaux's automatic public toilets are first tested and then installed in Paris in 1980 and 1981.
1972
JCDecaux invents the City Information Panel, a street furniture displaying city information on one side and advertising on the other. A new division is formed 3 years later to help cities create their maps and communications.
1973
JCDecaux introduces the seven-day campaign, which offers more flexibility and impact to advertisers.
1976
A new model of Street Furniture, the "PISA", is invented to combine on the same side city information and advertisement. JCDecaux invents at the same time the 8 m². This format will outlive the "PISA" replaced from 1988 by the "Senior".
1980
JCDecaux invents the Electronic Information Board. Cities can now communicate their messages in real time to their citizens, 24/7.
1982-1999
Design and business development
1982
The JCDecaux teams designs the Murano bus shelter.
1991
JCDecaux įsigijo Morris kolonas.
1994
San Francisco is the first American city to partner with JCDecaux, who installs its first model of automatic public toilets accessible to people in wheelchairs.
1998
Infoscreen installs in 1998 the Group's first digital displays in the metro of Vienna.
1982
JCDecaux installs its first furniture in Germany in Hamburg in 1982. In 1990, a few months before the reunification, JCDecaux would be one of the first companies to invest in Eastern Germany, with a contract with the city of Leipzig.
1992
Sir Norman Foster is the first designer to work with JCDecaux to design of street furniture lines. Over 50 designers would work with JCDecaux, Mario Bellini, Philippe Starck or Jean-Michel Wilmotte among them.
1997
Thanks to its close collaboration with the designer Philip Cox and to the quality of its maintenance, JCDecaux wins the tender for the City of Sydney. The Group enters Oceania.
1999-2013
From challanger to number 1 worldwide
1999
JCDecaux buys Avenir, the outdoor communication division of Havas Media Communication. The group welcomes the two new activities of Large Format and Transport Advertising.
2003
A new service joins the JCDecaux portfolio, to answer cities' needs for better urban mobility. The first self-service bicycles scheme is installed in Vienna, Austria.
2004
JCDecaux UK starts to challenge the conventions of outdoor advertising, and spices traditional campaigns up with bespoke out of the box elements. In 2004, JCDecaux Innovate is officially created.
2008
JCDecaux signs in 2008 its first contract with Dubai International Airport. Other deals in the region would follow, and JCDecaux Middle East will grow to over 250 employees in 2014.
2012
The tender for provision of street furniture and bike sharing system held by the municipality of Vilnius is won and a long-term contract is signed.
1999
JCDecaux wins the first advertising concession in Singapore which used to forbid advertising in public spaces, and installs bus shelters on Orchard Road
2001
JCDecaux becomes listed at the Paris stock exchange. In anticipation, the Group has set up the year before what is still today's governance: a supervisory board, and an executive board with a rotating annual chair held alternately by Jean-François and Jean-Charles Decaux.
2005
JCDecaux enters the Lithuanian outdoor advertising market by purchasing multiple local companies and investing into quality street furniture rollout.
2011
Then present in 56 countries, JCDecaux becomes #1 worldwide in outdoor adverting.
2013-onwards
Developing interactivity and connectivity
2013
Cyclocity bike sharing scheme is introduced in Vilnius with 300 bikes in 37 terminals – quickly becoming one of the leading Cyclocity schemes in terms of bike rentals per day.
2014
JCDecaux acquires Continental Outdoor Media. With a presence in 16 countries, JCDecaux becomes the number one outdoor advertising company in Africa.
2014
JCDecaux puts its networks at the service of urban connectivity by partnering for small cells deployment with Vodafone, Huawei or Alcatel-Lucent. Amsterdam is the first city to equip over 400 bus shelters.
2013
Outdoor Impact research, making outdoor media measureable in 3 Baltic capitals is launched.
2013
In 2013, JCDecaux buys 85% of Eumex, a Mexican company founded in 1995. Over 500 people join JCDecaux who strengthens its position in Chile and Argentina, and makes its entry into seven new countries.
2015
Smarter and greener bus shelters arrive in the cities, beginning with Paris new bus shelter equipped with photovoltaic panels, green roofs, USB chargers and digital information screens providing real-time and localised information.