30/09/2013

Business news : Poncin yachts ( Catana owner )sell White Shark to Guy Marine, himself bought

Poncin group released a statement Sept. 26 saying : " The sale of White Shark of the mark and the production tools and was performed with a family group of investors committed to the qualitative picture of White Shark still 100% designed and manufactured in France . " The group added:" Buying the French site also Guy Marine on the island of Oleron , investors can create business synergies and industry around the two brands. "

The sale of White Shark occurs at the same time as the construction of Oleron Guy Marine himself now the new owner of the White Shark brand and molds for the production of hulls and equipment necessary for the production of the open stars upscale, created in the spirit of the famous Boston Whaler U.S. .

Guy Mainre and White Shark now belong to the group Fineloc Parisian specialist truck rental with driver , led by Erich La Chiusa . The new management of the yard back to Fabrice Garnier . François Galland, who was the owner of Guy Marine for six years , is now engaged in the sales department .

The Oleron's shipyard changes hands while his neighbor opposite, Ocqueteau , from the same family , has also changed owners .

For White Shark Fineloc has today added to the long list of successive shareholders since its inception Kelt in Morbihan in 1974 by the browser Gilles Le Baud Chauffour Poncin Marine , Outboard Marine Corporation , Dauxin - Fourcade, Dufour, Siparex Poncin .

In 2009, Poncin, had closed the factory Kelt - creator of White Shark - Vannes to transfer production to Marans (Charente -Maritime, the time location of its head and its flagship factory since sold ) . So the 68 employees Vannes refused mutations proposed to 30 of them in the Charente -Maritime and remained without immediate employment solution Morbihan.

The Poncin group , which also abandoned plans to revolutionize the production monohulls space, will , the company said , " concentrate all its efforts on brand luxury Catana catamarans whose earning potential was much greater . Now pure player upscale catamaran , the group will be able to concentrate all its forces in international deployment of its flagship brand Catana and accelerate the ongoing development of its range . "

French source lemarin.fr

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