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Junior ESSEC

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Type
  
Junior-Entreprise

Founder
  
Pierre-Marie THAUVIN

Founded
  
1967

Industry
  
market survey, strategy consulting

Headquarters
  
1, Avenue Bernard Hirsch, 95021 Cergy Pontoise, France

Revenue
  
€1,500,000 (FY08) #1 (France), #1 Europe market share France : 21.4%

Junior ESSEC is a junior enterprise in Cergy, France, on the campus of ESSEC Business School. Founded in 1967, it is the oldest junior enterprise. Junior ESSEC then lobbieed for the official recognition of this specific type of company. In 1969, the first national organisation for the defense of the interests of junior enterprises (CNJE) was created.

Contents

Junior ESSEC engages in marketing and consulting studies and surveys in sectors including luxury, consumer and retail, healthcare, TMT, financial institutions, strategy consulting, industrials

In 2015 Junior ESSEC generated a turnover of €1.8m, managing 250 consulting studies for external clients.

History

Junior ESSEC was founded in 1967 by Pierre-Marie Thauvin, an ESSEC student. Junior ESSEC, along with 5 other early junior enterprises created in the next years in other French Grandes Ecoles, created in 1969 the CNJE, the first national organisation to protect the interests of junior enterprises.

Recruitment

Members are recruited after having successfully passed through 8 rounds of interviews and a final assessment center where they are challenged on consulting cases.

Administrators

Project managers at Junior ESSEC are asked for a 2 years commitment. During the first year, the 8 junior members are involved as project managers, before joining Junior ESSEC's board during their second year. Each consulting mission is managed by one junior member (first year at Junior ESSEC) and one senior member (second year at Junior ESSEC).

Main Businesses

Junior ESSEC is active on the following areas of business:

  • Market study
  • Customer survey
  • Business plan
  • Business process reorganization
  • Position on the French junior enterprise market

    The French junior enterprise market is a sub-segment of the consulting market which turned over €7.0m in 2008.

    Junior ESSEC is a French association defined by the status of the 1901 law, and a member of CNJE, the French Junior Enterprise Confederation.

    References

    Junior ESSEC Wikipedia