Orange S.A.

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Orange S.A.

Formerly	France Télécom S.A.
Company type	Public (Société Anonyme)
Traded as	Euronext Paris: ORA NYSE: ORAN BIT: 1ORA CAC 40 Component
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1 January 1988; 36 years ago (1988-01-01) (as France Télécom) 1 July 2013; 10 years ago (2013-07-01) (as Orange)
Headquarters	Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Christel Heydemann (CEO) Jacques Aschenbroich (Chairman)[1]
Products	Fixed line telephone Mobile phone Broadband IPTV Internet Bank
Revenue	€43.47 billion (2023)[2]
Operating income	€4.80 billion (2023)[2]
Net income	€2.62 billion (2023)[2]
Total assets	€109.65 billion (2023)[2]
Total equity	€34.96 billion (2023)[2]
Owners	French State (23%) Public float (77%)[3]
Number of employees	132,002 (2021)[2]
Subsidiaries	Orange Business Orange Marine Orange Labs Telkom Kenya Orange Egypt Sonatel Jazztel Globecast Cloudwatt Orange Romania
ASN	5511
Website	www.orange.com (group) www.orange.fr

Orange S.A. (French pronunciation: [ɔʁɑ̃ʒ]), formerly known as France Télécom S.A. (france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications company. It has 266 million customers worldwide and employs 89,000 people in France and 59,000 people worldwide.^[4] In 2023, the group had a revenue of €43 billion.^[5] The company's head office is located in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the southwestern suburban area of Paris.

Orange has been the company's main brand for mobile, landline, internet and Internet Protocol television (IPTV) services since 2006. The Orange brand originated in the United Kingdom in 1994 after Hutchison Whampoa acquired a controlling stake in Microtel Communications: that company became a subsidiary of Mannesmann in 1999 and then was acquired by France Télécom in 2000. On 1 July 2013 France Télécom was rebranded to Orange.^[6]