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Michelin Headquarters & offices · Clermont-Ferrand, France
Michelin · Clermont-Ferrand, France
A 160-metre timber façade, a tropical rubber-tree glasshouse open to visitors, and a headquarters on the same city-centre site where Michelin was born in 1889.
The Carmes headquarters and its new welcome building, the R&D campus at Ladoux, the social benefits Michelin gives every employee worldwide — then the business. Every number from Michelin's own website, results releases and the architects' project pages.
- 15 haCarmes site in the city centre, home to 3,000 employees
- 14 weeksminimum maternity/adoption leave, worldwide
- 1 in 2employees are Michelin shareholders (77,755, end 2025)
- 129,800employees in 63 countries
Sources: BASE project page “Michelin: Campus & Place des Carmes” · michelin.com “Caring for people at Michelin” (2024, updated 2026) · shareaction.michelin.com · michelin.com “The Group” (updated June 2026)
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THE HEADQUARTERS · PLACE DES CARMES · 2020–21
La Canopée: a timber welcome building in front of a 19th-century factory site
Encore Heureux renovated the headquarters and extended its welcome building over two floors behind a new 160-metre timber façade — a porous edge between the public square and the company. Inside are a restaurant, a shop, modular exhibition spaces and the restored historic tropical glasshouse with its museum. The architects kept as much of the old buildings as they could, left structures and networks visible to recall the industrial site, reused the glasshouse glazing and solid floors, and used local lava stone and timber from Corrèze and the Massif Central.
- 11,650 m² (≈ 125,400 sq ft)
- 160 m timber façade
- Restored tropical glasshouse
- Design: Encore Heureux
- Landscape: BASE
- Delivered Dec 2020
La Canopée, the welcome building (2020–21)
Encore Heureux renovated the headquarters and extended its welcome building over two floors behind a new 160-metre timber façade, delivered in December 2020.
Inside: glasshouse, restaurant and work spaces
Inside are a restaurant, a shop, modular exhibition spaces and the restored historic tropical glasshouse, with structures and networks left visible to recall the industrial site.
Place des Carmes and the campus
BASE redesigned the 15-hectare Carmes site as a campus, together with a new 2.5-hectare public square in front of the headquarters.
Urbalad, the R&D campus at Ladoux
Chaix & Morel's Campus RDI at Ladoux opened in 2015 and 2018: 69,000 m² of offices and labs along a 320-metre indoor street under one huge canopy, for 1,600 people.
Facts: Encore Heureux project page “La Canopée” and news “Livraison du siège social de Michelin” (17.12.2020) · BASE project page. Photos are added later with credit to the architects and photographers.
Two Clermont-Ferrand campuses: Les Carmes and Ladoux
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (Les Carmes) | 23 Place des Carmes-Déchaux, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| Campus RDI “Urbalad” (Ladoux R&D centre) | Ladoux site, Cébazat, near Clermont-Ferrand, France |
Source: annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr (CGEM registered office) · michelin.com Legal Notice · Chaix & Morel project page (Cébazat) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Encore Heureux project page and news · BASE project page · Chaix & Morel project page · Eiffage news (10.09.2015) · michelin.com “Powerful Global R&D”
Office tour videos
Benefits (worldwide, and in France)
At least 14 weeks for every Group employee worldwide, under the Michelin One Care program.
Four weeks of paternity/adoption leave worldwide.
Healthcare coverage for all employees and their families, and death benefits for employees' families, in every country.
A yearly plan with a discount on the share price plus matching free shares; open after 3 months' service in eligible countries.
Global Living Wage Employer certification by the Fair Wage Network: every employee earns at least a living wage.
Voluntary payments into the BIB Primauté share fund can be topped up by the company; savings are locked for 5 years.
The 2022–2025 telework agreement allows occasional, regular and adapted telework; each team sets its office days.
Courses at La Manufacture des Talents, Michelin's talent campus opened in 2022.
Source: michelin.com “Caring for people at Michelin” (2024, updated Jan 2026) · shareaction.michelin.com “Become a Michelin employee shareholder” · recrutement.michelin.fr “Travailler chez Michelin”
Why people stay: what Michelin itself says
More than one in every two employees owned Michelin shares at the end of 2025.
Michelin fills jobs from inside first and recruits for a career path, not just a first job.
Nearly 5 million hours of training a year for about 130,000 employees.
Inspiring, Create trust, Awareness, Results, Empowerment: managers are trained and evaluated on it.
A staff cooperative in 1910 and 8,000 affordable homes built for employees in 1919–1923.
Source: shareaction.michelin.com · recrutement.michelin.fr “Travailler chez Michelin” · michelin.com “Caring for people at Michelin”
Who works here
employees in 63 countries
of the Group's headcount are women
of managers are women
people in R&D, over 2,500 of them at Ladoux
Source: michelin.com “The Group” (updated June 2026) · “Caring for people at Michelin” · “Powerful Global R&D”
Office history: 137 years on the same Clermont-Ferrand site
- 1832 Barbier-Daubrée, a farm machinery business
Édouard Daubrée and his cousin Aristide Barbier launched a farm machinery business in Clermont-Ferrand that used many rubber parts. Daubrée's Scottish wife, Elisabeth Pugh-Barker, had brought rubber-making to the town.
Source: michelin.com “Michelin heritage”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1889 Michelin & Cie at Les Carmes
Édouard Michelin took over the struggling company and renamed it Michelin & Cie; his brother André joined him. The Carmes site in central Clermont-Ferrand, where the business was born, is still the headquarters.
Source: michelin.com “Michelin heritage” · BASE project page “Michelin: Campus & Place des Carmes”
Michelin works, Clermont-Ferrand, 1906 · Pierre Souvestre / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1919–23 Homes for 8,000 families
Michelin bought 35 hectares of land and built 8,000 affordable homes for its employees, after starting a staff cooperative and a restaurant serving about 700 meals a day in 1910.
Source: michelin.com “Caring for people at Michelin”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1965 Ladoux, the first research and test centre
Michelin opened its first research and test centre, with laboratories, workshops and tracks, at Ladoux near Clermont-Ferrand.
Source: michelin.com “Michelin heritage”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2015–18 Urbalad, the new R&D campus
Chaix & Morel's Campus RDI at Ladoux opened in two phases (2015 and 2018): 69,000 m² of offices and labs along a 320-metre indoor street under one huge canopy, for 1,600 people.
Source: Chaix & Morel project page · Eiffage news, 10.09.2015
Urbalad, Ladoux, under construction · © Chaix & Morel et Associés / Christian Richters, Jean-Marc Besacier - 2019 The Carmes site opens to the city
BASE redesigned the 15-hectare Carmes site as a campus around the Tiretaine river, together with a new 2.5-hectare public square in front of the headquarters.
Source: BASE project page “Michelin: Campus & Place des Carmes”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2020–21 La Canopée, the new welcome building
Encore Heureux's renovated and extended welcome building was handed over on December 17, 2020, and inaugurated in September 2021.
Source: Encore Heureux news (17.12.2020) · Michelin official video (2021)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
Michelin has never left Clermont-Ferrand. The headquarters is still on the Carmes site where the company was born in 1889; research grew a few kilometres north at Ladoux.
- 1 · 1889Les Carmes, Clermont-Ferrand — Michelin & Cie is born on the Carmes site
- 2 · 1965Ladoux — First research and test centre
- 3 · 2015–18Urbalad, Ladoux — Campus RDI by Chaix & Morel, 1,600 people
- 4 · Today23 Place des Carmes-Déchaux — Headquarters and La Canopée welcome building
Addresses: annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr · BASE project page · michelin.com heritage · Chaix & Morel project page
What Michelin does
Michelin invented the detachable bicycle tire in 1891 and the radial tire in 1946. Today it calls itself a pioneer of engineered materials: tires for cars, trucks, aircraft, mining and farming, plus polymer composites, connected-fleet services and the MICHELIN Guide.
Three reporting segments in 2025: Automotive & Two-wheel (RS1), Road Transportation (RS2) and Specialties (RS3). Polymer Composite Solutions becomes a separate segment from Q1 2026.
Where the money came from · Operating margin by segment, 2025
Source: Michelin press release “Financial information at December 31, 2025”
Source: Michelin press release “Financial information at December 31, 2025” · michelin.com “Powerful Global R&D”
Growth: revenue vs. people
€20.0B → €26.0B
Sales: Michelin annual results press releases for 2020–2025 (michelin.com). 2020 published as “€20 billion”. Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO since the May 2019 Shareholders' Meeting; Managing Chairman of the Group.
Managing Partner from 2007; head of the Group from 2012 until May 2019.
Managing Partner from 2005; sole Managing Partner after Édouard Michelin's death in 2006.
Grandson of the founder; took over from his father at the May 2002 Annual General Meeting.
Managing Partner from 1955 alongside Robert Puiseux; drove the radial tire worldwide.
Founders of Michelin & Cie (1889): brothers Édouard and André Michelin.
Source: michelin.com “Michelin heritage” · results release Dec 31, 2025
Michelin: questions people ask
Where is Michelin's headquarters?
At 23 Place des Carmes-Déchaux in Clermont-Ferrand, France — the Carmes site where Michelin was born in 1889. The site covers 15 hectares in the town centre, with offices and industrial activity, and about 3,000 employees.
Source: annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr · BASE project page
Who designed Michelin's headquarters?
Encore Heureux designed La Canopée, the renovated and extended welcome building (with Construire as lead contractor). The landscape architects BASE redesigned the Carmes campus and the 2.5-hectare Place des Carmes.
Source: Encore Heureux · BASE
How big is Michelin's headquarters building?
La Canopée covers 11,650 m² (about 125,400 sq ft) and has a 160-metre timber façade. It was handed over on December 17, 2020, for €26 million of works.
Source: Encore Heureux project page and news
Can you visit Michelin's headquarters?
Yes, in part: L'Aventure Michelin runs 1h30 guided tours of the Michelin Glasshouse at the headquarters, with a film, the tropical glasshouse and a tasting at Café Equateur. Online booking is required; an adult ticket costs €11.
Source: laventure.michelin.com “The GlassHouse”
What is Urbalad?
Urbalad is Michelin's research, development and industrialisation campus at Ladoux, near Clermont-Ferrand, designed by Chaix & Morel et Associés. It opened in 2015 and 2018 and brings 1,600 people together under one canopy.
Source: Chaix & Morel project page · Eiffage news
How many people work at Michelin?
129,800 employees in 63 countries, according to Michelin's Group page. More than 6,000 work in R&D, over 2,500 of them at Ladoux.
Source: michelin.com “The Group” · “Powerful Global R&D”
What benefits does Michelin offer?
Under the Michelin One Care program, every employee worldwide gets at least 14 weeks of maternity/adoption leave or 4 weeks of paternity/adoption leave, healthcare coverage for the family and death benefits. Employees can also buy shares through BIB'Action with a discount and matching free shares.
Source: michelin.com “Caring for people at Michelin” · shareaction.michelin.com
Does Michelin allow remote work?
In France, the 2022–2025 telework agreement allows three modes — occasional, regular and adapted. Each team decides which tasks need people on site, and so how many telework days it has.
Source: recrutement.michelin.fr “Travailler chez Michelin”
Who is Michelin's CEO?
Florent Menegaux, CEO since the May 2019 Shareholders' Meeting and Managing Chairman of the Group.
Source: michelin.com “Michelin heritage” · results release 2025
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