MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Climate change, transitions
(demographic, ecological, energy,
digital, etc.), and the emerging
economic warfare of early 2025
represent major challenges for local
authorities and communities in the
Caribbean. These issues have a
significant impact on the potential
prospects for developing territories.
How, in an island economy, can we
ensure the implementation of the
objective of land sobriety, which, it is
true, makes operations more complex
and puts pressure on economic models,
without neglecting the multiple
legislative and regulatory constraints
linked to any economic partnership
with the Caribbean?
The ecosystem of our territories is
undergoing rapid change, and budgets
are constrained.
However, it is time to transform the
desire to act into concrete projects
to produce better, live better and
understand the world better.
This is why Défia, by making its own
investments and offering its expertise
to public or private investors, must
accelerate its deployment and
sustainably change key sectors of our
territorial resources through innovation,
urban integration of agro-industry,
micro-industrialisation, and research.
David Zobda
President
His Worship Mayor
of the City of Lamentin
CEO’S Note
Défia's mission remains constant: it aims to
meet the demands of improving the quality of
life by promoting innovation at the heart of
the regions.
This means: creating intergenerational
housing to ensure a living environment
conducive to healthy aging, restructuring
economic zones while integrating sustainable
development objectives, then "enhancing the
territory" by investing in the themes of
nutrition and health, plant chemistry, green
energy and sustainable mobility.
This is how our program looks like.
Défia's actions are guided by three values
that unite us around a common ambition:
working with you to achieve responsible,
sustainable, and inclusive development.
Solidarity expressing our commitment to
mutual assistance to society, our colleagues
and our partners,
Proactivity, which reflects the listening and
innovation that we implement to respond to
the constantly evolving needs and
expectations of our customers,
Responsibility which reflects the fairness,
reliability and performance of our actions in
the general interest of sustainable
development.
PERFORMANCE
Develop an impactful business portfolio while
producing property management solutions,
ready-to-use equipment or promoting project
subsidiaries and joint ventures.
COMPANY OVERVIEW
VISION
Défia is committed to being a trusted partner in the public and economic worlds. As a local tool, it organises the creation of public-private partnerships by creating, whenever necessary, project companies for dynamic asset management. It develops complex projects promoting social and functional diversity and the production of new services and uses of the territory.
A local multi-sector mixed economy company
Deputy CEO
Défia is a private limited company in which public institutions are the majority shareholders, possessing 80% of the capital.
A wide range of services are provided, including the planning and building of housing, youth services, retail centres, recreational facilities, green energy, medical facilities, sustainable mobility, and any other area of local development.
Our company is a member of the French Federation of Local Public Enterprises (FedEpl) and therefore can benefit from their expertise, save time, and improve performance in serving its customers.
OUR MISSIONS
Business development director
WE DO
NOS CHIFFRES CLÉSDepuis
Since 2024, customer diversification has been underway to limit the risks of carrying out operations. The company will respond to requests for joint ventures. It is planned to sign two contracts per year.
Défia holds a portfolio of 39 operations with strong potential for internal growth and development of derivative products. We can anticipate a renewal of the portfolio at a rate of 5 projects per year.
Annual renewal rate planned over the next 5 years
The development of this land reserve within the framework of a tight land sobriety market makes it possible to achieve more than 5 ha of built floor space over the period.
the development of an ethnobotanical park, a permaculture farm in the heart of the city and the preservation of the urban mangrove are issues of ecological compensation for territorial development.
This portfolio of operations benefits from an initial budgetary entry from local authorities of €36 million. Some €74 million of European funds remain to be mobilized. The balance of investments is carried by the private sector.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Défia's turnover depends on a five-year
production cycle which relies on the
group's ability to control all stages of an
operation, from its gestation to the
delivery of the work.
Real estate development is the most
contributory sector, while project
management assistance (PMA) provides
an average income and stability to the
company. The consultancy activity, a
little less contributory, can however be
significant when Défia is in a business
provider situation.
The production of turnkey operations
dedicated to sustainable development is
strongly supported by tax exemption or
in the production of key operations.
Given its business experience and taking
into account the current economic
environment and public policies, Défia
intends to develop new alliances to
strengthen its growth and its CSR
commitments.
Turnover
Expenses
Profit
EXPERIENCE
FUTURE OUTLOOK
One of the most important aspects of our company's growth is turnover diversification. The ability to incorporate a regional alliance strategy of territories is the primary determinant of value creation.
By using Lamentin's project as a demonstration to provide territorial added value, Défia has taken the risk of spearheading a significant sustainable development initiative.
Our organisation invests in corporate social responsibility through a number of impact projects, including regional cooperation, support for sports teams, and the Résilience territorial foundation. Défia can also provide investment opportunities to CSR funds by implementing sustainable development projects, which helps to create a new sense of territorial responsibility.
Over the next ten years, the company's current portfolio of operations in the Lamentin region will yield an optimal turnover of €4 million annually. This reserve of development and turnover, in our opinion, exists in every comparable Caribbean territory. Défia is getting ready to create new territories and EPC contracts with the help of Martinique's multi-site free zone project.
