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Founded by Bernard Gauthier and Jean-François Ott in 1993.1
Private company
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Real estate development company
Orco Property Group S.A. (ORCO Group, ORCO) is a real estate development company based in Luxembourg, listed on the Euronext in Paris, Prague, Warsaw and Budapest Stock Exchange, it is a subsidiary of CPI Property Group. The Group works in Central Europe since 1991, Orco Property Group’s portfolio includes IPB Real, Mamaison Collection, Viterra Development, Gewerbesiedlungs-Gesellschaft mbH (GSG) and Orco Real Estate. The team consists of over 2500 people from 15 different countries.2 It was founded by Jean-François Ott and Bernard Gauthier.1 It employed 3 people in 2015.1 Its revenue was €14 million in 2015.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Orco Property Group S.A. (ORCO Group, ORCO) is a real estate development company based in Luxembourg, listed on the Euronext in Paris, Prague, Warsaw and Budapest Stock Exchange, it is a subsidiary of CPI Property Group.2
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Founded by Bernard Gauthier and Jean-François Ott in 1993.1
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ORCO operated, through its subsidiaries, mainly in Central and Eastern European (CEE). It developed real estate markets of Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany (Berlin, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, and Munich, expanding the group's focus into ripe markets of western Germany, Berlin fitting into the CEE strategy), Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, and Slovakia. As of 2016, company operated in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg, and Poland
The company was established in Luxembourg and started its activities in the Czech Republic in 1991. In 1999, its expansion to other countries began by investing in Budapest. Since 2000, the company was listed on the Euronext, Prague, Budapest, and Warsaw Stock Exchange, next to Paris (main listing) and Frankfurt. In 2009, the company requested protection from claims by creditors in France. By 2016, the company was delisted from all stock exchanges and acquired by CPI Property Group.
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ORCO Group valuated its property portfolio to EUR 2.7 billion in the first half of 2008, down from 2,95 million EUR reported in 2007. As of June 2009 ORCO's real estate portfolio value fell to EUR 1.83 billion from EUR 2.13 billion in the previous period according to the company's report.
ČTK's sources say further that "Orco struggles a high degree of indebtedness... Orco's debts total as much as some EUR 1.6 bn... under a six-month court protection against creditors, with management expecting a possible extension by several weeks... at the same time in talks about capital investment with US firm Colony Capital and is undergoing restructuring. Orco said... to focus its future activities on Prague and Berlin."
In 2008 and 2009, after the latest (as of 2009) real estate bubble crash, Czech Business Weekly (CBW) reported problems within the Czech subsidiary – in June 2009 Orco being "still on the verge of bankruptcy and, despite being under protection of a Paris court, might not survive the year without a capital increase from a new investor" and about Jean-François Ott's "talks on a capital increase with U. S.-based investment fund Colony Capital".
Company was sold to CPI Property Group, renamed as GSG Group and again renamed to CPI Property Group.
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