The day after the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, it was an already smiling Olivier Ginon who was walking towards the Stade de France, where the French rugby 7s team was preparing to win gold. Even before the consecration of Antoine Dupont’s Blues, the business leader, fresh out of a reception area near the stadium, could already congratulate himself on having completed with his teams, on time, the 160,000 grandstand seats that the group he chairs had promised the organizers of the Games, who had chosen from the outset to only offer temporary sites in Paris, rather than building permanent sports arenas. According to its own figures, GL Events, Olivier Ginon’s company, would have built “70% of the temporary installations” for these Games, “from Paris to Tahiti”, including the Château de Versailles where the company was also responsible for the entire hospitality, dressing rooms and catering section.
Two years earlier, this event specialist had indeed got involved in the matter, at the request of the organizers of Paris 2024, who had opened nearly 1,500 public markets for a total amount of 2.2 billion euros in purchases. GL Events quickly positioned itself, to the point of becoming an official partner of the event, in June 2023. At that time, the boss Olivier Ginon explained that “the award of this contract relating to temporary installations confirms the trust established between the Organizing Committee (…)
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