Gecina Welcomes a Café Joyeux Inclusive cafe-restaurant at 1 Madeleine in Paris
29 Giugno 2021 - 6:07PM
Business Wire
Regulatory News:
Gecina (Paris:GFC) has signed a two-year lease with Café Joyeux
to set up an inclusive cafe-restaurant in a ground-floor unit at
its building located at 1 boulevard de la Madeleine in Paris. This
cafe-restaurant concept will occupy a 430 sq.m unit and is
scheduled to open to the public from the end of the summer
2021.
Thanks to this new location, Café Joyeux will be able to
continue developing its activity and offer employment opportunities
for 15 new crew members at this site.
Launched in 2017, the Café Joyeux cafe-restaurant concept
reflects a desire to change the way people view disabilities and
foster inclusion at the heart of our cities and our lives. Today,
this franchise employs around 50 crew members with cognitive
disabilities across its five locations.
“We are delighted to be opening up 1 Madeleine to Café Joyeux
and enabling the general public to discover this original concept
for an inclusive cafe-restaurant. Thanks to this socially
responsible initiative, we are continuing to build on our role as
an engaged stakeholder within the city to promote the integration
of people with disabilities within society, while ensuring full
alignment with our purpose: Empowering shared human experiences at
the heart of our sustainable spaces”, confirms Méka Brunel,
Gecina’s Chief Executive Officer.
“We will shortly be opening a Café Joyeux at 1 boulevard de la
Madeleine, one of the most beautiful addresses in the whole of
Paris, which is a great opportunity for our social enterprise and
our mission to promote inclusion. Thanks to the generosity of
Gecina and its teams, around 15 Joyful crew members will be able to
find a job and a sustainable professional future that will change
their lives.
This also proves that with a daring and generous approach,
leading businesses can support the most fragile people, at the
heart of the ordinary economy. This is what Gecina is clearly
demonstrating here, in the same way as other companies: with Café
Joyeux, solidarity can find opportunities to be expressed within
the current economic system and through a good lunch and a
delicious specialty coffee”, confirms Yann
Bucaille-Lanrezac, co-founder of Café Joyeux.
About Gecina
As a specialist for centrality and uses, Gecina operates
innovative and sustainable living spaces. The Group owns, manages
and develops Europe’s leading office portfolio, with nearly 97%
located in the Paris Region, and a portfolio of residential assets
and student residences, with over 9,000 apartments. These
portfolios are valued at 19.7 billion euros at end-2020.
Gecina has firmly established its focus on innovation and its
human approach at the heart of its strategy to create value and
deliver on its purpose: “Empowering shared human experiences at
the heart of our sustainable spaces”. For our 100,000 clients,
this ambition is supported by our client-centric brand YouFirst. It
is also positioned at the heart of UtilesEnsemble, our program
setting out our solidarity-based commitments to the environment, to
people and to the quality of life in cities.
Gecina is a French real estate investment trust (SIIC) listed on
Euronext Paris, and is part of the SBF 120, CAC Next 20, CAC Large
60, CAC 40 ESG and Euronext 100 indices. Gecina is also recognized
as one of the top-performing companies in its industry by leading
sustainability benchmarks and rankings (GRESB, Sustainalytics,
MSCI, ISS ESG and CDP).
www.gecina.fr
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