Turnover: 113 million EUR (2022)
Country: France
- Leading integrated distributor of electronic cigarettes, accessories and vaping liquids
- More than 50 stores
News
Vaping: the French prefer specialty stores 09/03/2023
- More than 3,500 electronic cigarette stores in France
- 25% of sales online, 15% through tobacconists and 60% in stores
- 6.3 million French people will be using electronic cigarettes by 2022
- Le Petit Vapoteur, founded in Cherbourg in 2011 and European leader in the sale of vaping products, with over 2 million customers and sales of €113 million in 2022, 317 employees and 7,000 daily orders, 82% of which are placed over the Internet
- Clopinette, founded in 2011 in Caen (Calvados), heads a network of 110 stores, 50% of which are franchises, with sales of 26.4 million euros and 160 employees (over 300 with its franchises)
- Cigusto, founded in 2013 (400 employees) and based in Saran, Loiret, controls 111 stores, 98% of which are located in shopping centers.Carrefour has taken a 30% stake in the company's capital. This year, the company plans to open a further 40 stores, with a target of 250 by 2025. Sales of 50 million euros in 2022 should almost double by 2023
Studies mentioning this company
The e-cigarette market - France
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- My Vapors Europe - Joyetech
- Alfaliquid Gaïatrend
- Kumulus Vape
- J Well
- Kangertech
- DLICE / Nocoswitch
- Vaporesso / Smoore technologie
- Le Petit Vapoteur
- Cigusto
- Clopinette
- VDLV
- Aeroma
- Vapostore
- Smok-it
- Juul Labs
- Innokin Technology
- Republic Technologies Groupe