Crédit Agricole Evergreen HQ: Office Photos, Benefits

THE HEAD-OFFICE CAMPUS · EVERGREEN · MONTROUGE

A “city within the city” organised around a park

In 2010 Crédit Agricole S.A. brought its subsidiaries together on an eco-campus in Montrouge, at the gates of Paris. The buildings — Aqua, Terra, Eole, Lumen and Silvae — sit around a central park that the company calls the campus's green lung, with canals, ponds, flower meadows, a wetland and three beehives on a roof. EOLE, completed in 2015, is shaped like a figure 8 around two gardens, with an interior street of white arches, five garden patios and hanging terraces.

170,000 m² of offices (≈ 1.83M sq ft)
4 ha of gardens
9,000 users
BiodiverCity® Life label (2020)
EOLE: Pyramide d'Argent 2016
Reception pavilion & EOLE: Arte Charpentier

Inside: the interior street, halls and offices

EOLE, completed in 2015, has an interior street of white arches, a trading room, two auditoriums of 84 and 297 seats and six dining areas.

A tall glazed atrium with hanging plants and a curved white wall, with small figures on the floor — Atrium · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A hall whose angled white panels carry blue light projections of words — Hall with light projections · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A gallery corridor with artworks, display cases and red armchairs — Gallery corridor · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A white lounge with glass display cases and a perforated screen — Lounge · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A large auditorium with rows of grey and blue seats and blue-lit walls — Auditorium · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A small auditorium with yellow seats and a window onto trees — Smaller auditorium · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A dining table laid with white cloth and pink chairs against dark red panels — Dining room · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

An open office floor with pendant lamps, a long wooden counter and glazed meeting rooms — Office floor · © Crédit Agricole Immobilier

A glazed lounge with armchairs, small tables and leaf-print wallpaper — Break-out space · © Crédit Agricole Immobilier

Gardens, patios and the campus park

The buildings sit around a 4-hectare central park with canals, ponds, flower meadows, a wetland and three beehives on a roof.

Aerial view of low office buildings around a green park, with Paris beyond — The campus from the air · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A shaded garden patio with round stone seats on a lawn — Garden patio · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A rooftop terrace with lavender and shrubs under a glass canopy — Hanging terrace · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A paved roof terrace with planters of grasses and a city view — Roof terrace · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A lawn and pond with wild flowers in front of a long office building — The park · © Crédit Agricole Immobilier

An office building with tall windows reflected in a canal — Canal along a building · © Crédit Agricole Immobilier

A curving path through grass and shrubs towards glass office buildings — Garden path · © Crédit Agricole Immobilier

An office building with a glazed entrance behind a lawn and a pond — From the pond · Luc Bernard / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The reception pavilion and the buildings

Arte Charpentier's 600 m² reception pavilion marks the campus entrance; EOLE won a Pyramide d'Argent in 2016.

A white curved canopy sweeping over a glazed pavilion among trees — Reception pavilion · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A glazed pavilion with a white wave-shaped roof in front of an office building — From the street · Alexia Durand / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Inside the pavilion: a curved white ceiling with light strips over a reception desk — Inside the reception pavilion · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

A grey and white facade with lime-green window frames seen from a walkway — EOLE facade · © Arte Charpentier / photographers Stéphanie Knibbe, Manolo Mylonas, Da Silva (as in file names)

Facts: Crédit Agricole Immobilier, “Le campus Evergreen” · Arte Charpentier project page “Campus Crédit Agricole – Reception pavilion and EOLE” · presse.credit-agricole.com, BiodiverCity® Life release (16 June 2020).

The Evergreen campus

Building	Address
Evergreen campus — reception	50 avenue Jean Jaurès, 92120 Montrouge, France
Crédit Agricole S.A. — mailing address	12 place des États-Unis, 92545 Montrouge Cedex, France

Source: credit-agricole.com, Head office Crédit Agricole · See them on the map ↓

Architects creditedWilmotte & Associés · Arte Charpentier · Studio d'architecture Ory · Sahuc et Katchoura

Offices170,000 m² (≈ 1,829,863 sq ft)

Gardens4 ha (≈ 9.9 acres)

BuildingsAqua, Terra, Eole, Lumen, Silvae (plus Ignis and the Forum)

EOLE (Arte Charpentier, 2015)67,000 m² (≈ 721,181 sq ft), 3,500 employees, trading room, 2 auditoriums (84 and 297 seats), 6 dining areas

Reception pavilion600 m² (≈ 6,458 sq ft) on two levels

LabelsHQE Exploitation, BBC Rénovation (Ignis, 2017), BREEAM, BiodiverCity® Life (2020)

AwardPyramide d'Argent 2016 for EOLE

Source: Crédit Agricole Immobilier, “Le campus Evergreen” · Arte Charpentier project page. Arte Charpentier gives 157,000 m² of offices on 8 ha and 9,000+ employees; the official campus video (2025) says 10,000 employees and 200,000 m².

Office tour videos

Découvrez le campus Evergreen du Crédit AgricoleGroupe Crédit Agricole (official) · 2025 · YouTube ↗

Benefits (Crédit Agricole S.A., France and worldwide)

Maternity leave16 weeks

Paid at 100%, for all women employees in France and internationally, since 2021.

Second-parent leave28 days

Paid paternity leave in every country; it has covered 100% of employees since January 2025.

Remote workUp to 40%

Of annual working time, with flexible days, an allowance for each remote day and help with equipment costs.

Employee share offer20% off

The 2026 capital increase reserved for employees: more than 53,000 employees in France and abroad subscribed.

Savings plansMatched

100% of employees in France have a company savings plan (PEE) and a retirement plan (PERCOL), both topped up by the employer.

Profit sharing100%

All employees in France are covered by profit-sharing agreements (intéressement and participation).

Psychological support24/7

Free hotlines and psychological listening services open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

On campusGyms & more

Sports rooms, a concierge service, cafeterias and company restaurants on the Montrouge and Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines campuses.

Source: credit-agricole.com — Environnement de travail, Performance et rémunérations · presse.credit-agricole.com, 2026 capital increase reserved for employees · groupecreditagricole.jobs, Crédit Agricole S.A. — Nos avantages

Why people stay: what Crédit Agricole itself says

2.78MHours of training in 2025

Every Crédit Agricole S.A. employee, in France and abroad, took at least one training course in 2025.

UnlimitedAccess to training and mobility

Since May 2024 all employees worldwide are being given unlimited access to the Group's training, skills and internal mobility programs.

78%Would recommend the employer

In the 2025 Confidence Index survey, more than 84,000 employees were asked; 80% answered.

135Nationalities

53% of Crédit Agricole S.A. employees work outside France, in more than 45 countries.

93/100Gender equality index

Professional equality index of the Crédit Agricole S.A. social unit (UES CASA), end of 2025.

GardenA shared vegetable garden

A collaborative vegetable garden opened on the Montrouge campus in 2024, to reconnect employees with nature and the seasons.

Source: credit-agricole.com — Développement du capital humain, Diversité, Environnement de travail (data for 2025)

Who works here

83,044

Crédit Agricole S.A. employees (FTE), end of 2025

45+

countries

53%

work outside France

30.8%

of senior executives are women (UES CASA)

Source: credit-agricole.com — Diversité (data at end of 2025)

From a farmers' bank in the Jura to a campus at the gates of Paris

1885
The first local bank, in Salins-les-Bains
On 25 February 1885 Alfred Bouvet and Louis Milcent created the “Caisse de crédit mutuel agricole de l'arrondissement de Poligny”. Bouvet lent staff from his forestry company, and the head office was set up in Salins-les-Bains in the Jura. Farmers could borrow up to 600 francs — the price of two draught oxen.
Source: credit-agricole.com, “Crédit Agricole 140 years of history: 1880s – Creation in the Jura” (2025)

Salins-les-Bains, the founding town (former Crédit Agricole Mutuel du Jura branch) · GO69 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
1899
Regional banks are allowed
The Viger Act allowed the creation of the Regional Banks, which still control Crédit Agricole S.A. today.
Source: Crédit Agricole integrated report, “The history of Crédit Agricole”

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1920
A national central institution
The Office National du Crédit Agricole was created as the public central body for the cooperative regional banks; it was renamed Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole (CNCA) in 1926.
Source: credit-agricole.com, “140 years of history: 1920s – Electricity and housing”

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1940s
A branch in Vichy during the war
With France split into a free zone and an occupied zone, the Caisse Nationale had to open a branch in Vichy to serve the regional banks in the south; some regional banks had to move their headquarters.
Source: credit-agricole.com, “140 years of history: 1940s – War and reconstruction”

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2001
CNCA becomes Crédit Agricole S.A.
The Caisse Nationale was renamed Crédit Agricole S.A. and listed on the Paris stock exchange on 14 December 2001; the Regional Banks kept more than 50% of its capital.
Source: Crédit Agricole integrated report, history · credit-agricole.com, “140 years of history: 2000s – A new dimension”

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2010
A new head office in Montrouge
Crédit Agricole S.A. chose to bring all its subsidiaries together on the Evergreen eco-campus in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine), at the gates of Paris. Crédit Agricole Immobilier advised on buying the site and moved staff in wave by wave from other locations.
Source: Crédit Agricole integrated report, history (“new head office in Montrouge (92)”) · Crédit Agricole Immobilier, “Le campus Evergreen”

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2015
EOLE and the reception pavilion
Arte Charpentier completed EOLE, a 67,000 m² figure-8 building for Crédit Agricole CIB with the trading room, and a 600 m² reception pavilion that marks the campus entrance. EOLE was inaugurated in March 2016 and won a Pyramide d'Argent.
Source: Arte Charpentier project page

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2020
A campus labelled for biodiversity
Evergreen became one of the first sites in France in operation to receive the BiodiverCity® Life label, after nearly two years of ecological work. A collaborative vegetable garden followed in 2024.
Source: presse.credit-agricole.com, 16 June 2020 · credit-agricole.com, Environnement de travail

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Map: how the headquarters moved

From a small town in the Jura, near the Swiss border, to a park-like campus just south of Paris — about 330 km apart.

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1 · 1885Salins-les-Bains (Jura) — Head office of the first local bank
2 · 1940sVichy — Wartime branch of the Caisse Nationale
3 · 2010Evergreen campus, Montrouge — Head office of Crédit Agricole S.A. today

Places: credit-agricole.com (140 years of history; Head office page) · Locations: OpenStreetMap

What Crédit Agricole does

Crédit Agricole began in 1885 as a mutual bank lending to farmers in the Jura. Today the Group is made up of the Local Banks, the Regional Banks and Crédit Agricole S.A., the listed company based in Montrouge, which runs retail banking (LCL and international banks), insurance, asset management, consumer finance and leasing, and corporate and investment banking.

Crédit Agricole S.A. reports by business line: Asset gathering, French retail banking (LCL), International retail banking, Specialised financial services, Large customers, plus the Corporate centre.

Where the money came from · Contribution to underlying net income Group share, 2022 (€ millions)

Asset gatheringInsurance, asset management, wealth management

€2,415m

Large customersCorporate & investment banking, asset servicing

€1,709m

French retail banking – LCLBranch banking in France

€875m

Specialised financial servicesConsumer finance, leasing and factoring

€767m

International retail bankingRetail banks outside France

€411m

Source: credit-agricole.com, Key figures Crédit Agricole S.A. (2022 underlying; the corporate centre contributed −€708m)

Net income Group share, 2025> €7bnCrédit Agricole S.A., record annual revenues

Return on tangible equity, 202513.5%Crédit Agricole S.A.

CET1 ratio, 202511.8%Crédit Agricole S.A. (Group: 17.4%), phased-in

New customers, 20252.1 millionCrédit Agricole Group

Source: presse.credit-agricole.com, Fourth quarter & full-year 2025 results

Chief executives

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2025 – today

Olivier Gavalda

Appointed CEO of Crédit Agricole S.A. by the Board on 17 December 2024; took office after the General Meeting of 14 May 2025. He joined Crédit Agricole S.A. in 2010 as Head of the Regional Banks Division after running Crédit Agricole Champagne Bourgogne.

Founders of the first local bank (1885): Alfred Bouvet and Louis Milcent.

Source: credit-agricole.com — CEO appointment newsflash, Executive Committee profile, 140 years of history

Crédit Agricole's official social accounts

Only the official YouTube channel was confirmed in this research; other accounts are linked from credit-agricole.com's “Follow us” page.

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Crédit Agricole: questions people ask

Where is Crédit Agricole's headquarters?

Crédit Agricole S.A. is based on the Evergreen campus in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine), just south of Paris. The reception is at 50 avenue Jean Jaurès, 92120 Montrouge; the mailing address is 12 place des États-Unis, 92545 Montrouge Cedex.

Source: credit-agricole.com, Head office Crédit Agricole

Since when has Crédit Agricole been in Montrouge?

Since 2010, when Crédit Agricole S.A. decided to bring all its subsidiaries together on the Evergreen eco-campus in Montrouge.

Source: Crédit Agricole integrated report, history · Crédit Agricole Immobilier

How big is the Evergreen campus?

Crédit Agricole Immobilier gives 170,000 m² (about 1.83 million sq ft) of offices, 4 hectares of gardens and 9,000 users — about 3% of the town of Montrouge. The company's 2025 campus video says 200,000 m² and 10,000 employees.

Source: Crédit Agricole Immobilier, “Le campus Evergreen” · Groupe Crédit Agricole YouTube (2025)

Who designed Crédit Agricole's headquarters?

Arte Charpentier designed the EOLE building and the reception pavilion (2015), including interiors and landscape. Crédit Agricole Immobilier also credits Wilmotte & Associés, Studio d'architecture Ory and Sahuc et Katchoura on the campus.

Source: Arte Charpentier project page · Crédit Agricole Immobilier

What is inside the EOLE building?

Offices for about 3,500 employees, a trading room, two auditoriums (84 and 297 seats), six dining areas, a bank branch, a business centre and exhibition space for the bank's art collection, set around two gardens and five patios.

Source: Arte Charpentier project page

Can Crédit Agricole employees work from home?

Yes. 100% of Group employees in France are covered by a remote-work charter or agreement; employees can work remotely up to 40% of their annual working time, with an allowance per remote day and help with equipment.

Source: credit-agricole.com, Environnement de travail

What parental leave does Crédit Agricole offer?

16 weeks of maternity leave paid at 100% for all women employees worldwide (since 2021), and 28 days of paid paternity / second-parent leave in every country, covering 100% of employees since January 2025.

Source: credit-agricole.com, Environnement de travail

Can employees buy Crédit Agricole shares at a discount?

Yes. The 2026 capital increase reserved for employees offered shares at a 20% discount; more than 53,000 employees in France and abroad subscribed. In France, savings and retirement plans are topped up by the employer.

Source: presse.credit-agricole.com, 2026 capital increase reserved for employees · credit-agricole.com, Performance et rémunérations

How many people work at Crédit Agricole S.A.?

83,044 full-time-equivalent employees at the end of 2025, in more than 45 countries; 53% work outside France.

Source: credit-agricole.com, Diversité

Where was Crédit Agricole founded?

In Salins-les-Bains, in the Jura, where the first local bank — the Caisse de crédit mutuel agricole de l'arrondissement de Poligny — set up its head office on 25 February 1885.

Source: credit-agricole.com, 140 years of history: 1880s

Crédit Agricole Headquarters & offices · Montrouge, France

A head-office campus built around a park: 4 hectares of gardens, canals and ponds, with beehives on a roof.

A “city within the city” organised around a park

Inside: the interior street, halls and offices

Gardens, patios and the campus park

The reception pavilion and the buildings

The Evergreen campus

Office tour videos

Benefits (Crédit Agricole S.A., France and worldwide)

Why people stay: what Crédit Agricole itself says

Who works here

From a farmers' bank in the Jura to a campus at the gates of Paris

Map: how the headquarters moved

What Crédit Agricole does

Chief executives

Crédit Agricole: questions people ask

Want to work at Crédit Agricole?

Crédit Agricole in our features

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