ANALYSIS – Semmaris, which manages the largest wholesale market in the world, wants to expand to the south and north of the capital.
“We have fulfilled our function as an operator of vital importance for Île-de-France, and 2021 has proven to be a very good year.” For Stéphane Layani, the CEO of Semmaris (the managing company), Rungis has weathered the health crisis rather well, despite the closure of restaurants. The first wholesale market in the worlde has thus more or less regained its overall attendance before the pandemic, at 6.3 million admissions per year (6.6 million in 2019). “If we take the footfall of buyers alone, it even exceeded 1.3 million, up 4% compared to 2019, thanks to a 10% jump in new buyers last year”supports the leader at the head of the company for ten years.
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Above all, the turnover of the 1,200 wholesalers and companies in the market of national interest (MIN) continued to grow despite the health restrictions, rising from 9.7 billion euros two years ago, to 10 billion in 2020 and 2021. Admittedly, a hundred wholesalers suffered…
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