Turnover: 47 million EUR (2019)
Country: France
CLC is a French company, part of the Go&Live group, founded in 1972 by an English teacher and specialized in the organization of school and language trips.
CLC also offers leisure centers (ages 6-14) and summer camps (ages 8-14). Language stays represent the company's most important activity. These cover English, German and Spanish.
In 2019, the Go & Live group generated consolidated sales of €100 million.
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- Go & Live Group, one of France's major market players, with its Nacel, American Village and Club Langues et Civilisations (CLC) brands,
- Consolidated sales of 100 million euros in 2019 and 10 million in 2020
- 50% of sales in the UK
- The industry, essentially made up of SMEs, has not seen any labelled companies liquidate
- Registration figures are still a long way off those for 2019.
- Union nationale des organisations de séjours éducatifs, linguistiques et de formation en langues (Unosel): some 40 members, sales of 97 million euros
- In 2019, 505,000 young people traveled with the help of Unosel-labeled companies, including 55,000 on pure language stays.
- Three years on, registrations with member organizations show an overall drop of 38%, while group stays, with supervised departure from France, are down 48%.
- Effective Linguistique (sales of 1.6 million euros), a reputed upmarket agency
Studies mentioning this company
The language travel market - France
Other companies mentioned:
- CLC (Go & Live Groupe)
- Verdié Voyage
- Nacel
- EF International
- Unosel
- ESL (Kaplan International)
- StudyGlobal
- Langues Vivantes
- Action Séjours
- Cap Monde
- EF Education First