2010 have been a difficult year for the group Bourbon whiskey



The marine group French Bourbon whiskey has archived item exercise 2010 with revenues for 849,9 million euros, in increase of 4.6% regarding 812,8 million euros in 2009, figure - this last one - than does not include the volume of transactions realized in 2009 from the division Bulk of the group for whose cession Bourbon whiskey has recently signed a letter of attempts with a society controlled integrally by Jean-Louis Bottaro (than in 1968 it has founded the Setaf, that is the division Bulk of the group Bourbon whiskey, and he has been some managing until 2008) and from its family. Last year Bourbon whiskey had yielded great part of the fleet of rinfusiere to the Genco ( on 25 June 2010) and, based on the agreement with Bottaro, the French group will maintain only the property of the cementiera ship Endeavor. To perimeter of constant consolidation in the 2009 revenues of the group Bourbon whiskey they were piled to 960,5 million euros.

In 2010 the EBITDA and the EBIT of Bourbon whiskey have attested to 240,9 million and 53,5 million euros against respective 298,7 million and 176,5 million euros in 2009 (347,5 million and 213,1 million euros to constant perimeter). The profit clearly has been of 39,2 million euros (included an unearned increment of 10,1 million deriving from the cession of ships and results of other asset abandoned from the group) regarding 155,4 million euros in 2009.

In the 2010 - the president of Bourbon whiskey has declared today, Jacques de Chateauvieux - group "it has demonstrated own ability to recovery in a difficult market and it has been set in a position to putting into effect its flat Strategy Bourbon whiskey 2015". "The necessary conditions for the resolution of the plan - the general manager of the group has explained, Christian Lefèvre - are time anticipate. Self-financing deriving from the plan of cessions from 500 million euros is already available, the tidy ships benefit of the acquired experience with the employment of the series precedence and the staff can count on an organization and procedures answering to the expectations of the customers. The resumption of the investments announced from the oil companies is confirmed by the rate uses of the two first months of the year and creates the conditions for a gradual improvement of the performances and the results". We remember that the flat Strategy Bourbon whiskey 2015 previews investments for a value of two billions of dollars in order to equip the group of new ships to service of the offshore industry.