Boston Consulting Group , the first patron of the Établissement public du Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (EPGPCE), has been offering its skills and know-how to support the Grand Palais. For four months, BCG conducted a study of event programming, analysing the potential value to be gained from the different areas in the building. These were strategic issues for EPGPCE.

Since its foundation in 1963, Boston Consulting Group has been helping the biggest companies to build a sustainable competitive advantage. With operations in 38 countries and 64 offices, BCG is involved in all sectors of business and provides services that span all corporate activities.
 
Since its inception, BCG has been offering its know-how to organisations and associations, focusing on helping businesses to meet their strategic challenges. Providing patronage support in the form of skills is a key direction for BCG's development.

Vitra, the celebrated manufacturer and distributor of designer furniture since 1957, is now offering its patronage to the Grand Palais.
Leading names in design including Arik Levy, Van Severen, Ron Arad, and the Bouroullec brothers can now be seen behind the scenes at the Grand Palais, where the new furniture contributes to making our offices into a high quality, contemporary working environment for our administrative personnel.
The Grand Palais projection room has also been generously endowed by Vitra with furniture that comes into play when the room is configured for lectures and debates, providing speakers and visitors with a comfortable and elegant facility, and creating a very pleasant working environment for the Grand Palais staff.
Through this generous support, Vitra is associating its image with that of the Grand Palais, while pursuing its policy in favour of architecture and heritage.

Sony France took the opportunity to accompany the opening of the Grand Palais projection room by offering practical patronage in the form of leading edge technology.
With 100 seats and a 564 cm screen with automatic horizontal centring, the Grand Palais projection room enjoys a geographical location and a view over the Seine and the Alexandre III bridge that make it an outstanding downtown facility. Thanks to the generosity of its patron Sony and its HD 4 K digital projector, it is currently the only cinema in Paris to be so sophisticatedly equipped.
The patronage is the result of close, ongoing collaboration and dialogue with the architects and scenographers since the inception of a project that combines two values shared and cherished by Sony and the Grand Palais: innovation and modernity.

Ina, a partner of the Grand Palais
An outstanding source of broadcast image and sound, Ina's mission is to build a common heritage. It is now working with the Grand Palais to make its video archive material available to a worldwide audience via this Web site.
 
Ina collects, saves, protects, digitises, restores and communicates the archives of French radio and television, a total of over 70 years of radio programmes and 60 years of television history. Serials, television fiction, documentaries, news broadcasts, current affairs programmes, interviews, regional archives and more, form an exceptional source of media for production, broadcasting, publication, training, research and education.
 
In an educational and cultural perspective, Ina aims to generate maximum value from its archives, and partnership is a major aspect of this policy.
To dig deeper into the historical records of the Grand Palais, go to ina.fr.