Turnover: 958.5 million EUR (2021)
Country: France
- France's leading operator of winter sports resorts and tourist attractions
- one of Europe's leading operators of leisure parks (Asterix, Futuroscope, Walibi, Grevin, Bellewaerde Aquapark...)
- The group employs over 5,000 people
- Group sales plummeted during the health crisis, but are set to rise again in 2021
News
Skiing: Tignes takes a radical step away from Compagnie des Alpes 13/08/2024
- The ski resort will then be managed by the newly-created local public company (SPL) (with the neighboring commune of and Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise).
- the group, a subsidiary of the Caisse des dépôts et consignation, has "taken note" of this decision
- With sales of 66 million euros, Tignes is currently the fourth largest of the ten ski areas managed by the CDA.
- the company itself generates over a billion euros in annual business, almost half of which is generated by its lift management companies alone
- The company recalls that it took over operation of the Tarentaise ski area in 1989-1990, and currently holds around 78% of Société des téléphériques de la Grande-Motte (STGM, its subsidiary operating the Tignes resort).
- On May 31, 2026, STGM's 300 or so employees will be taken over by the SPL.
- Tignes must pay nearly 110 million euros to the CDA at the time of transfer
- The Orcières-Merlette resort (Hautes-Alpes) will leave its public-private partnership in 2022 in favor of a semi-public company, with annual sales of around ten million euros.
- Domaine des Saisies (Savoie), which operates as an SPL and generates annual sales of 25 million euros.
Compagnie des Alpes: Board member named Laurent Wauquiez 08/02/2024
- CDA is the world's largest ski lift operator, with a dozen ski resorts in France.
- It also manages several leisure parks, including Parc Astérix and Futuroscope.
- CDA generates sales of 1.125 billion euros and employs 5,000 people.
- Since 2007, it has owned the Société des téléphériques de Val d'Isère (STVI), acquired from the Société financière de Val d'Isère (Sofival).
Compagnie des Alpes: Parc Astérix's crazy projects 12/12/2023
- Spring inauguration of the Toutatis Festival, 36 million euros of investment
- Asterix broke its all-time attendance record with 2.8 million visitors, consolidating its position as France's second-largest park, behind the giant Disneyland Paris (15 million by 2022) and ahead of Puy du Fou (2.6 million by 2023).
- On average, 20% of sales (170 million euros in 2022) will be reinvested each year.
- Target: three million annual visitors
- The site's hotel capacity has increased from 100 to 450 rooms in five years.
- A fourth hotel is planned for the end of 2026
- Parc Astérix is the flagship of its owner, Compagnie des Alpes, which also owns Futuroscope, Walibi and the Musée Grévin.
- Sales of Compagnie des Alpes' leisure park business (526 million euros in fiscal 2022-2023) have surpassed those of the group's historic ski resorts (489 million euros).
Leisure parks, Compagnie des Alpes' magic potion 06/12/2023
- For the first time, the Group broke through the symbolic one-billion-euro sales barrier (1.13 billion, up 10.6%). Operating income was also up, by 3.6% to 139.6 million, as was net income (90.4 million, up 5.2%).
- The Group's leisure parks (Parc Astérix, Futuroscope, Walibi Rhône-Alpes) were in excellent health. With sales of 526 million euros, they outstripped for the second year running its ski area and outdoor activities division (489 million).
- More visitors to the parks (+5.2%)
- Parc Astérix broke its attendance record with 2.8 million admissions. They also spent more (+7% per visitor).
- In skiing, the energy bill more than doubled - from 35.1 million to 72.1 million - and affected all 10 ski areas (including Tignes, La Plagne and Les Arcs).
- In a ski market down 5% according to Domaines skiables de France, CDA sites reported a 1.8% increase in the number of skier-days.
Compagnie des Alpes and Eurostar expand their offer to Europe 10/11/2023
- Two years ago, Compagnie des Alpes (CDA) set up Travelski Express, rail links serving a dozen ski areas.
- 4% of travelers to Alpine resorts take the train.
- Eurostar, which used to provide the Travelski Express service, has reduced its services this year to five weeks in winter, and no longer serves Paris, but Lille.
- From 2024 to 2026, Compagnie des Alpes plans to operate twice-weekly services between London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and the French Alps, from mid-December to mid-April.
- Travelski Express carried 12,000 passengers to the Alps last year.
- Every year, almost half a million Belgian skiers, over half a million Dutch skiers and over 1 million English skiers travel to the French Alps to ski.
Ski resorts: the high stakes of groomer conversion 08/11/2023
- 250 French ski areas
- Compagnie des Alpes (CDA) 1.1 billion in sales, 43% of which are generated by its ten ski areas (it also owns leisure parks) has set itself a "Net Zero Carbon" target for 2030
- Compagnie des Alpes groomer fleet: 140 groomers, made up almost equally of Kässbohrer and Prinoth machines.
- The two main suppliers are Germany's Kässbohrer and Italy's Prinoth. The former has over 60% of the market, with sales of more than 400 million euros, 90% of which in grooming.
- In France, 136 snow groomers were purchased last year by all ski areas, at a cost of 50 million euros
- 1.worldwide, between 200 and 1,400 units are sold each year,
- Prinoth France generates sales of around 30 million euros, 80% of which come from the sale and maintenance of snow groomers.
- Price of a snow groomer: 400,000 euros per electric machine
The ropeway is operated by Compagnie des Alpes. 02/01/2023
- Compagnie des Alpes, France's largest ski area operator with a dozen lift companies, has placed a €200 million order with Poma
- Poma is France's leading ropeway operator, generating half of its sales in France
- The Poma Group employs 1,250 people, 850 of them in France, and will achieve sales of €350 million in 2021, after €450 million in 2019
Compagnie des Alpes to buy 200 million euros worth of ski lifts 09/12/2022
- Compagnie des Alpes owns ten ski areas (Tignes, Val d'Isère, Les Arcs, Serre Chevalier...)
- and twelve leisure parks (Fururoscope, Parc Astérix, Walibi...)
- In its fiscal year 2021-2022, the company generated net income of €114.4 million and sales of €958.5 million.
Tourism: Compagnie des Alpes moves into the leisure hotel business 29/06/2022
- CDA, which operates in a dozen major French resorts (La Plagne, Les Arcs, Méribel, Serre Chevalier, Tignes, Val d'Isère), is to acquire 85% of the capital of MMV, the second-largest hotel operator in the Alps after Club Med.
- The transaction is based on an enterprise value of around 173 million euros
- Created in 1989 and present in 16 resorts, MMV has 20 3- or 4-star establishments, including ten hotels and ten serviced leisure residences, with a total of 11,500 beds
Financial Data
DUNS: 349577908
Legal Name: COMPAGNIE DES ALPES
Address: 50 BD HAUSSMANN 50-52, 75009 PARIS 9
Number of employees: Entre 100 et 199 salariés (2019)
Capital: 25 182 041 EUR
Financial Data:
| Year | 2021 | 2020 | 2018 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 31 291 000 | 29 517 000 | 28 880 000 | 29 566 000 |
| Gross margin (€) | 32 360 000 | - | -29 049 000 | - |
| EBITDA (€) | -9 934 000 | - | -67 104 000 | - |
| Operating profit (€) | -17 263 000 | - | -72 373 000 | - |
| Net profit (€) | -79 217 000 | -32 360 000 | 16 961 000 | 12 763 000 |
| Turnover growth rate (%) | 6 | - | 4,7 | - |
| Ebitda margin rate (%) | -31,7 | - | -232,4 | - |
| Operating margin rate (%) | -55,2 | - | -250,6 | - |
| Working Capital (turnover days) | -101,7 | - | -3,7 | - |
| Working Capital requirements (turnover days) | -86,9 | - | - | - |
| Net margin (%) | -253,2 | - | 58,7 | - |
| Added value / Turnover (%) | 28 | - | -61,7 | - |
| Wages and social charges (€) | 18 897 000 | - | 22 575 000 | - |
| Salaries / Turnover (%) | 60,4 | - | 78,2 | - |
Company Managers:
| Position | First Name | Last Name | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Président du conseil d'administration | Dominique | Marcel | 69 | |
| Directeur général | Dominique | Thillaud | 55 | |
| Vice-président du conseil d'administration | Antoine René Robert | Saintoyant | 47 | |
| Directeur général délégué | Loïc Gérard Jean | Bonhoure | 45 | |
| Administrateur | Antoine | Gosset-Grainville | 58 | |
| Administrateur | Carole | Montillet | 51 | |
| Administrateur | Clothilde | Lauzeral | 36 | |
| Administrateur | Arnaud | Taverne | 51 | |
| Administrateur | Antoine René Robert | Saintoyant | 47 | |
| Administrateur | Anne Sophie | Yannic | 62 | |
| Administrateur représentant les salariés | Sophie | Sasinka | 50 | |
| Administrateur représentant les salariés | Benoit | Spriet | 59 |
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