Ouest-France Employee Directory
Newspaper PublishingBretagne, France1001-5000 Employees
Ouest-France is a newspaper publishing company headquartered at 10 Rue du Breil in Rennes, Brittany, France, employing between 1,001 and 5,000 people. Since an extraordinary general assembly on 9 April 1990, S.A. Ouest-France has been governed as a non-profit association, the Association pour le soutien des principes de la démocratie humaniste, chaired by Jacques Duquesne; François Régis Hutin founded the editorial committee, and Louis Échelard serves as Président du Directoire and Directeur de la publication. The group operates 58 editorial offices across 14 departments in Brittany, Basse-Normandie and Pays de la Loire, plus Paris, and runs two production sites at Chantepie (Ille-et-Vilaine) and La Chevrolière (Loire-Atlantique). It publishes 52 local editions (as of 2016) and two digital editions (l'Édition du soir and l'Édition France), with 2015 figures of 712,500 copies distributed and 2,467,000 readers; its site ouest-france.fr is reported as the 10th national information site by unique visitors (4.564 million). Ouest-France has held a leading position among French dailies since 1975 and is described as the first francophone daily newspaper in the world.