About us
Since 1986, Réunir proposes a full range of professional solutions to all those who, within companies or associations, organise seminars, congresses or events.
Beyond the thousands of visitors who use the Réunir web site every year, more than 20,000 company or association decision-makers have subscribed to Réunir in order to benefit free of charge from from all our services.
Discover for yourself, too, the Réunir solutions that will help you plan your next business events.
- Guide Réunir
- Réunir web site
- Magazine Réunir
- Réunir trade fair
- Réunir searches for you
- History of the company
Guide Réunir
As the indespensable Business Tourism reference for the past 23 years, the Guide Réunir enables you to pinpoint the appropriate venue or service provider for your professional event.
- With more than 9,500 meeting rooms in over 1,000 establishments in France and abroad (from event venues to conference centres, from 2-star to luxury 4-star hotels, from major chains to independent establishments) and with over 350 referenced agencies and service providers, the Guide Réunir meets the most specific requirements.
- Designed as a work tool, the Guide is set out according to "three-criteria" classification (area, location, reception capacity) accompanied by numerous indexes and lists. The establishments and service providers are presented on detailed data sheets.
- Each establishment is visited by our teams : the information is validated so as to provide you with additional security.
- Updated annually and printed on certified "sustainable development" paper, the Guide is sent out free of charge in September of each year to all Réunir subscribers.
Réunir web site
On www.reunir.com, discover the wealth of information in the Guide Réunir, with interactivity as a bonus.
- With more than 2.5 million consultations of data sheets in 2008, www.reunir.com is the leading Internet site used by event planners (Web Ranking classification).
- Free access to all the information displayed in the printed Guide, with a detailed description of each establishment or service provider and their direct contact details.
- Internet "plus" features : It also proposes a multi-criteria search system, a personal section in which you can automatically send off requests for quotes, on-line assistance... all in French and English.
- The latest version of the Réunir site, launched in January 2009, enjoys new aesthetics, modern ergonomics and redesigned functionalities.
Magazine Réunir
The magazine that advises you and proposes new ideas concerning seminars, congresses and events.
- Over 40 pages of news, features, personal accounts, advice and fresh ideas.
- A new, enriched formula with additionally illustrated layouts for more enjoyable reading.
- 6 editions per year, sent out free of charge to all Réunir subscribers.
Réunir Rencontres Professionnelles trade fair
In a prestigious setting in the heart of Paris, the major business tourism fair of the autumn for optimal planning of your next professional events.
- At the Palais Brongniart in Paris, next to the Stock Exchange, more than 500 establishments are gathered for you to discover new offers and new venues, talk to their marketing managers and plan your upcoming events.
- A friendly atmosphere with free access gourmet buffets and open bar.
- Entertainment, gifts and "dream weekends for two" to be won.
Réunir searches for you
A customised service for our subscribers and a direct contribution towards your turnover.
- A manager specialised in the field devoted to this service full time
- The checking and validation of the specifications with the planner of the event
- No needless solicitation : only establishments liable to fit the specifications are contacted
- A growing success (over 4,000 requests handled in 2008) and the trust of our subscribers
- A Réunir service entirely free of charge, for you and the planner alike.
History of the company
Réunir (Rencontres et Communications) was founded by Philippe Juranville in 1986. Shortly beforehand, he was Marketing Director for a leading pharmaceutical laboratory, where he had great difficulty finding venues for his professional meetings. After requesting a brochure from each establishment, there was then the task of trying to compare each offer, often based on different criteria, with an end result of much frustration and not necessarily the right choice, neither for decision-makers nor the establishments themselves.
Driven by his entrepreneurial flair, Philippe Juranville left his previous company to create Réunir and be appointed Chairman. With Paul Tran Trung, his former colleague who became Sales Manager, and Françoise Laurain nominated Managing Director, Philippe Juranville gradually managed to convince establishments (meeting and reception rooms, hotels, conference centres) to advertise their facilities and services in a Guide, using the same pattern for each one according to the pertinent criteria. The Guide's patented three-criteria classification system (classification of establishments by area, followed by in-town / out of town location, then by reception capacity) allows the users to rapidly pre-select the establishments liable to interest them and then contact them directly.
In 1988, the Guide Réunir became accessible on the Minitel. The following year, Réunir published Scoop, the newsletter for decision-makers (which became Magazine Réunir in 2006). In 1994, Réunir organised the first Rencontres Professionnelles trade fair. As of 1998, the complete Guide was accessible on Internet.
Since January 2006, Réunir has been taken over by businessmen with an eye to further developing this history full of innovation. The company is now run by Managing Director Eric Guillemin.
Today as it was yesterday, Réunir remains faithful to its initial aims, its desire to innovate, and the values of its founders : high-performance arrangements, quality of service and respect for the client.