Vilmorin (Groupe Limagrain): The latest figures, news and market research on Vilmorin (Groupe Limagrain)

Turnover: 1.59 billion EUR (2022)

Country: France

Vilmorin bids farewell to the Paris Bourse after Limagrain's successful takeover bid 11/08/2023

Vilmorin is the world's fourth-largest seeds company.
Its historical shareholder, the Limagrain cooperative, held 71.25% of its shares.
Limagrain had crossed the threshold of 90% of the French seeds company's capital and voting rights.
Vilmorin was valued at 1.43 billion euros, with 7,200 employees.
The company's sales for fiscal 2021-2022 were 1.587 billion euros, with net income of 95.4 million euros.
Limagrain is present in 49 countries and is owned by 1,300 farmers.

Limagrain wants to take seed company Vilmorin off the stock market 02/05/2023

Vilmorin is the world's fourth largest seed company.
The cooperative Limagrain, Vilmorin's controlling shareholder, holds 71.25% of the shares and will launch a simplified tender offer for the remaining 28.75%.
The seed company generated around 10% of its sales in Russia and Ukraine.
The Limagrain cooperative group boasts sales of 2.1 billion euros and net income of 82 million euros.
Every year, Vilmorin invests over 16% of its sales in research and development.
Vilmorin generates around 75% of its sales from field seeds and 25% from vegetable seeds.

Vilmorin: First-half profits thanks to field crops. 31/03/2023

Sales for the first half (to end December) of the 2022/2023 financial year: 706.5 million euros
- Sales growth: 24.6%
- Organic growth: 19.6%
- Field seeds (61.2% of sales): 38.3% increase
- Vegetable Seeds: 0.7% decline

Vilmorin's strategy for remaining world leader in vegetable seeds is to focus on innovation. 18/05/2022

Seeds sales 700 million a year
More than 30 million seeds sold every year by the French giant, a subsidiary of the Limagrain agricultural cooperative
19% of Vilmorin's sales are in Italy.
More than 320 different varieties on the market.
The group devotes 16.4% of its annual sales to research and development, half of which is devoted to vegetable seeds, enabling it to market more than 320 different varieties.

DUNS: 377913728

Legal Name: VILMORIN & CIE

Address: 4 QUAI DE LA MEGISSERIE , 75001 PARIS 1

Number of employees: Entre 250 et 499 salariés (2020)

Capital: 349 488 703 EUR

Financial Data:

Year	2021	2019	2017	2016	2015
Turnover	93 894 000	84 244 000	78 277 000	80 819 000	62 250 000
Gross margin (€)	95 380 000	104 480 000	-	-	-
EBITDA (€)	-4 981 000	6 129 000	65 896 000	67 290	-
Operating profit (€)	-14 253 000	-5 327 000	65 896 000	67 290	-
Net profit (€)	57 910	42 382 000	26 253 000	32 700 000	14 580 000
Turnover growth rate (%)	-1,2	2,5	-3,1	29,8	-
Ebitda margin rate (%)	-5,3	7,3	-	-	-
Operating margin rate (%)	-15,2	-6,4	-	-	-
Working Capital (turnover days)	1 614,9	2 304,8	-	-	-
Working Capital requirements (turnover days)	-40,7	-40,1	-	-	-
Net margin (%)	0,1	505,6	-	-	-
Added value / Turnover (%)	29,7	19,8	-	-	-
Wages and social charges (€)	33 607 000	29 281 000	-	-	-
Salaries / Turnover (%)	35,8	34,9	-	-	-

Company Managers:

Position	First Name	Last Name	Age
Président du conseil d'administration,Directeur général	Sébastien	Vidal	48
Directeur général délégué	Franck Roger	Berger	65
Administrateur	Marie-Yvonne	Guillaume	64
Administrateur	Séverine	Fabre	44
Administrateur	Géraldine	Pron	56
Administrateur	Pierre-Antoine	Rigaud	36
Administrateur	Eric Julien	Greliche	50

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