(AOF) – Fountaine Pajot has presented its accounts for the first half of 2021/22. Net income, group share improved sharply to 5.655 million euros against 536,000 euros a year earlier. Exceptional items with no cash effect had impacted the net income group share for the first half of 2020/21. The gross operating surplus stood at 12.9 million euros, against 13.2 million euros a year earlier, “impacted by inflationary pressures on raw materials and supply difficulties”.
The turnover of the specialist in the manufacture of pleasure boats reached 90.6 million euros, up 7%.
“The commercial momentum observed in this first part of the financial year and the strong visibility of the order book make it possible to anticipate another year of sales growth of +10% over the financial year” indicated the boat manufacturing specialist. of pleasure.
As part of its development for low-carbon yachting, Fountaine Pajot has sealed a strengthened partnership by taking a majority stake in Alternatives Énergies.
Alternatives Energies benefits from long experience in the development and integration of zero-emission or hybrid propulsion-energy systems for navigation: electro-solar-powered tourist ferryboats and shuttles, multi-mission barges with hybrid technology, hydrogen autonomy…
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Small amusement parks struggling
Declining turnover, investments to be made: these players are not getting their heads above water. These parks, which welcome 100,000 to 350,000 visitors per year, had to reduce their investments following the health crisis. But every year they invest between 10% and 20% of their turnover to create something new and attract new customers from a little further away and build loyalty. Many of these players, who have gone into debt to cope with the crisis, will soon have to repay their state-guaranteed loans (PGEs). At the end of the first year, companies can decide to reimburse their PGE immediately, amortize it over 1 to 5 additional years, or mix these two solutions. Faced with a period that it considers insufficient, the National Union of Leisure, Attraction and Cultural Spaces (Snelac) is asking that the EMP be transformed into investment aid for the sector or that it be extended to 15 years.