The National council of French employers ( CNPF ) was an organization representing employers French. It was created in December 1945 at the request of the French government which, with leaving the Second world war, wished to have an interlocutor representative of the unit of employers. A convention, concluded on July 24th, 1946, came to specify the relationship between the CNPF on the one hand and the Council inter federal of the French trade on the other hand, in agreement and with the assistance of the FAR and CGPME.

This convention constitutes the birth certificate of the National council the Commercial (CNC).

Into 1998, the CNPF is transformed into Mouvement of the companies of France (Medef) under the impulse of Ernest-Antoine Seilliere.

Leaders

• Georges Villiers, of 1946 to 1966.
• Paul Huvelin, of 1966 to 1972.
• François Ceyrac, of 1972 to 1981.
• Yvon Gattaz, of 1981 to 1986.
• François Perigot of 1986 to 1994.
• Jean Gandois of 1994 to 1997.
• Ernest-Antoine Seilliere of 1997 to 2005.

See too

• National council the Commercial (CNC)
• Michel Maury-Laribière