Turnover: 10.5 million EUR (2021)
Country: France
- Nicol's Yacht Shipyard was founded in 1986
- Nicols is a French river boat builder
- Boat rental without license for river tourism
- 26 destinations to discover the canals and rivers of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal and Hungary.
News
Nicols goes green with its charter fleet 15/04/2024
- Nicols is converting the 27 boats at its Alsace nautical base to HVO, a biodegradable fuel.
- - The switch to HVO is expected to reduce CO2, nitrogen oxide and fine particle emissions by up to 92%.
- - Diesel consumption by Nicols' speedboats accounts for around 25% of the company's total CO2 emissions.
- - The company operates 25 bases in Europe, located in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Portugal and Ireland.
- - Nicols has announced business growth of 15% for 2023 compared with the reference year 2019, compared with 12% in 2022.
- - The company employs 56 people.
- - After its takeover by Locaboat at the end of 2022, the Nicols-Locaboat group will post cumulative sales of 27 million euros for 120 employees.
Riverboats: a year after its takeover, Nicols is still growing 26/10/2023
- Growth in Nicols' riverboat rental business: 12% in the current season compared with 2019.
- Level of Nicols' activity in riverboat rentals: around 8 million euros.
- Company sales in 2021: 10.5 million euros.
- Sales in 2020: 9.7 million euros.
- Company sales in 2019: 13 million euros.
- Number of boats built by Nicols per year: around 15.
- Total number of boats built at the Nicols shipyard in Cholet since its creation in 1986: 657.
- Number of yachts sailing from 25 bases: 300.
- Number of Nicols employees: 56, including 25 at the Cholet shipyard.
Studies mentioning this company
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