Bolloré: The latest figures, news and market research on Bolloré

Turnover: 20 billion EUR (2021)

Country: France

Founded in 1829, the Bolloré Group is an extremely diversified group, present notably in transport and logistics, in communications with the Vivendi Group, and in electricity storage.
Group of 73,000 employees

september 2, 2020 - Bolloré suffers heavy defeat in car rental market - Source(Lyon Entreprise)

In six years, Bolloré had rented 735,000 electric cars, covering almost 6 million kilometers.
In 2019, with its 51 stations in Lyon and Villeurbanne, Bluely had 10,300 active subscribers.
These used 250 self-service electric cars and 500 charging stations.
The company launched a 4-hour package starting at 19.90 euros, and a 6-hour package starting at 29.90 euros.
However, the lack of profitability of the service, exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis, led the group to close its Bluely subsidiary in Lyon

Withdrawn after two fires, Bolloré's electric buses make a comeback in Paris 17/04/2024

**The Bluebus stopped circulating two years ago after some impressive fires.

**Bluebus return to the RATP network

**Number of Bluebuses withdrawn from service after the fires**: 148.

**Battery technology**: lithium metal polymer (LMP), different from conventional lithium-ion technology, with a solid electrolyte presented as safer.

**Number of Bluebuses scheduled for redeployment on the RATP network**: 232, including 84 new units, between now and the Olympic Games.

The Bolloré Group in a time of industrial doldrums 11/10/2023

2022: sale of Bolloré Africa Logistics to shipowner MSC (for 5.7 billion euros)
May 2023 CMA-CGM announced it was taking over the group's logistics activities, for 4.65 billion euros
Bolloré Logistics represents a third of the Group's activities (7.1 billion euros)
This leaves communications and media (9.6 billion euros)
Bolloré Energy (3.6 billion euros), a specialist in oil and biofuel logistics and distribution in France, Germany and Switzerland.
Industry division (€369 million, EBITA) -€125 million,
the Industry division covers Blue's electric mobility activities (energy storage, LMP batteries and Bluebus), with four plants in Ergué-Gabéric and Canada, three ultra-thin shrink-film and dielectric-film capacitor plants in Brittany and the United States, and the systems division (Automatic Systems, Easier, IER, Bluecar, etc.)

Bolloré and Foxconn join forces to supply Indonesia with electric scooters 04/10/2023

For the Bolloré Group, the future of solid-state batteries lies in two-wheeled vehicles.
Its subsidiary Blue Solutions has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturing group, to jointly develop an all-solid battery ecosystem.
Objective: development and production of batteries for two-wheeled vehicles (motorcycles, scooters, etc.)
Target markets: Indonesia, which has a production target of 2 million two-wheelers by 2024
According to McKinsey, the global two-wheeler market is expected to reach around $218 billion by 2029, with average annual growth of 8.7%.
Blue Solutions is the only company to produce cells, modules and all-solid-state battery packs in France and Canada.
The Bolloré group has already invested 3 billion euros in Blue Solutions, and has distributed over a million cells on the market.

Bolloré benefits from soaring freight and energy costs 15/03/2023

Key figures

-Sale of Bolloré Africa Logistics, its port and logistics activities on the African continent (sales: 2.6 billion euros)

Prior to this sale, Bolloré Logistics had 600 agencies in 111 countries and 13,500 employees.

Bolloré closes its African port venture and sells its African activities to MSC 02/01/2023

A turning point for Bolloré, which has built the largest transport and logistics network in Africa
Bolloré Africa Logistics' activities include over forty port concessions (Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Togo...), sixteen container terminals, three rail lines (Benin, Cameroon, Niger...) and a vast network of warehouses in over forty countries.
It generates sales of just over 2 billion euros and employs 21,000 people.
MSC increasingly aims to manage the international transport of goods from A to Z, from factory to store
Headquartered in Geneva, MSC boasts a fleet of 560 ships and manages several major terminals, including Singapore, Long Beach in California and Rotterdam.

Bolloré sells its African ports for €5 billion 22/12/2022

Switzerland's MSC acquires Bolloré's African logistics activities
French group retains shipping and media activities
It has built infrastructures in many African countries, a unique network of sixteen port concessions, warehouses and road and rail hubs
A business generating €2 billion in revenues

DUNS: 055804124

Legal Name: BOLLORE SE

Address: ODET , 29500 ERGUE-GABERIC

Number of employees: Entre 500 et 999 salariés (2020)

Capital: 472 062 300 EUR

Financial Data:

Year	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Turnover	149 516 000	143 249 000	144 209 000	153 281 000	153 749 000	151 643 000	150 443 000
Gross margin (€)	132 579 000	137 659 000	133 187 000	138 076	-	248 073 000	-
EBITDA (€)	12 161 000	21 586 000	9 604 000	2 471	-	360 575 000	-
Operating profit (€)	-706 000	10 296 000	-2 173 000	-11 154	-	373 464 000	-
Net profit (€)	235 740 000	181 084 000	16 744 000	-135 150 000	90 788 000	43 252 000	99 985 000
Turnover growth rate (%)	4,4	-0,7	-5,9	-0,3	1,4	0,8	-
Ebitda margin rate (%)	8,1	15,1	6,7	1,6	-	237,8	-
Operating margin rate (%)	-0,5	7,2	-1,5	-7,3	-	246,3	-
Working Capital (turnover days)	157,4	1 377,8	2 779	3 990,8	-	3 380,5	-
Working Capital requirements (turnover days)	52,2	35,2	24,8	34,1	-	42,6	-
Net margin (%)	157,7	126,4	11,6	-88,2	-	28,5	-
Added value / Turnover (%)	30	34,6	26,5	24,1	-	170,6	-
Wages and social charges (€)	62 217 000	58 977 000	59 359 000	63 137	-	-57 693 000	-
Salaries / Turnover (%)	41,6	41,2	41,2	41,2	-	-38	-

Company Managers:

Position	First Name	Last Name	Age
Président, Directeur général	Cyrille	BOLLORE	39
Vice-président du conseil d'administration, Administrateur	Cédric	DE BAILLIENCOURT	55
Vice-président, Administrateur	Yannick	BOLLORE	44
Administrateur	François	THOMAZEAU	75
Administrateur	Sébastien	BOLLORE	46
Administrateur	Marie	BOLLORE	36
Administrateur	Alexandre	PICCIOTTO	56
Administrateur	Chantal Marie Nicole Jeanne	BOLLORE	81
Administrateur	Virginie	COURTIN	39
Administrateur	Sophie, Johanna	KLOOSTERMAN	37
Administrateur représentant les salariés	Nicolas	ALTEIRAC	44
Administrateur représentant les salariés	David	MACMILLAN	69

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