ARGAN Redefines Logistics with Smart, Sustainable Real Estate

NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France – December 02, 2025

French real estate leader ARGAN has announced a significant strategic pivot, launching a completely revamped digital platform alongside a newly articulated corporate purpose. This dual initiative signals a deliberate move beyond traditional property development, positioning the company at the forefront of a logistics sector increasingly defined by technological innovation, transparency, and deep-seated sustainability. For a company managing a €4.0 billion portfolio, this is not merely a brand update but a foundational statement about the future of industrial infrastructure.

A Digital Overhaul for a New Era of Transparency

The centerpiece of ARGAN's announcement is its new website, a platform engineered to serve a diverse array of stakeholders—from investors and analysts to clients and local communities. The redesign moves beyond aesthetics, offering a more intuitive user experience and, more importantly, unprecedented access to information. The company is leveraging this digital gateway to enhance transparency, a currency of growing importance in the corporate world.

The site provides a granular look at the firm's 3.7 million-square-meter portfolio, with detailed presentations of development and leasing opportunities. For investors and financial analysts, the platform offers structured, direct access to financial data, regulated disclosures, and comprehensive details on the company's ESG strategy. This commitment to open communication is further underscored by the site's full availability in both French and English, reflecting ARGAN's ambition to strengthen its dialogue with a global audience. By integrating its family-centric history with forward-looking financial and sustainability metrics, the company is crafting a holistic narrative designed to build trust and clarify its long-term vision.

AutOnom®: The Warehouse as a Power Plant

At the heart of ARGAN's technological and sustainable push is its innovative AutOnom® warehouse concept. This is where the company's new purpose—"Developing and leasing high-performance, sustainable logistics spaces that serve their users and contribute to the vitality of local communities"—finds its most tangible expression. The AutOnom® label represents a paradigm shift, reimagining the warehouse not as a passive storage facility, but as an active, energy-producing asset.

These high-performance buildings are engineered for near-total energy independence. The design incorporates large-scale rooftop photovoltaic power plants coupled with battery storage systems, allowing the facilities to generate and store their own decarbonized electricity for self-consumption. This is complemented by the replacement of traditional gas heating with high-efficiency electric heat pumps. The results are striking: an AutOnom® warehouse produces CO2 emissions ten times lower than those of a conventional logistics building.

Since 2025, ARGAN has taken this a step further. All new AutOnom® developments are now carbon neutral in use. This is achieved by offsetting the minimal residual carbon footprint through a large-scale reforestation project in Cestas, Gironde. The project, which involves planting nearly 52,000 trees across 40 hectares, is certified under the French government's rigorous Low Carbon Label, ensuring a verifiable environmental impact. This commitment to green building is further validated by the company's policy of systematically pursuing "BREEAM Excellent" certification for all new developments, one of the highest standards in sustainable construction.

A Purpose-Driven Strategy in a Competitive Landscape

ARGAN's formalization of its corporate purpose is a strategic maneuver in a highly competitive European logistics market. As e-commerce continues to drive demand, major players are increasingly differentiating themselves through sustainability and innovation. Competitors like SEGRO and GARBE Industrial Real Estate are also heavily investing in "future-proof sustainable assets" and innovative urban logistics hubs across France.

In this context, ARGAN's clearly defined mission serves as both a north star for its internal strategy and a compelling value proposition for its blue-chip clients. The purpose explicitly links high-performance logistics spaces to the well-being of their users and the economic vitality of surrounding communities. This holistic approach recognizes that the value of a warehouse extends beyond its walls, impacting local employment, energy grids, and the environment. By embedding this philosophy into its core business, ARGAN aims to forge stronger, more resilient partnerships with both tenants and municipalities, transforming its developments from isolated industrial sites into integrated components of the local ecosystem.

Substantiating Sustainability with Hard Data

In an era of heightened scrutiny over corporate environmental claims, ARGAN is backing its ambitious vision with a robust framework of third-party validation and measurable targets. The company's ESG strategy is not a peripheral initiative but a core pillar of its operations, a fact reflected in its strong performance across multiple independent rating agencies.

In October 2025, the firm received an impressive initial rating of 83/100 from GRESB, a leading global benchmark for real estate sustainability. This is complemented by a "low risk" rating from Sustainalytics and recent upgrades from Ethifinance (to a gold medal) and Ecovadis (a silver medal placing it in the top 15% of rated companies). These accolades provide external validation of the company's efforts and lend significant credibility to its newly announced purpose.

This performance is guided by a detailed 2023-2030 ESG roadmap aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The roadmap includes aggressive goals, such as a 70% reduction in Scope 1 emissions and a 50% cut in operational Scope 3 emissions from its warehouses by 2030. Governance has also been adapted to reflect this focus, with the Audit Committee evolving into the Audit, Risk and Sustainability Committee. This integration of digital innovation, technological leadership in building design, and a transparent, data-backed ESG strategy demonstrates a comprehensive approach that is setting a new standard for the logistics real estate industry.