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Fincantieri increases the presence in the segment of the megayacht acquiring a quota minority of Camper & Nicholsons
the company is specialized in the sale, chartering, commercialization, management and construction of luxury yacht
May 25, 2015
The navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has undersigned an agreement in order to acquire, through a capital increase, a quota minority of Camper & Nicholsons International, company specialized in the sale, chartering, commercialization, management and construction of luxury yacht that last year is passed under the property of the Helvetian Colosseum Services KNOWS. The agreement previews the possibility for Fincantieri to increase own participation successively.
Fincantieri has explained that "the investment consolidates the presence of both the societies in the segment of megayacht and the confirmation the strategic interest of Fincantieri in a niche in which it has made to converge meaningful resources and it has reached important results beginning from the creation of Fincantieri Yachts, the dedicated business unit of the group".
Fincantieri and Camper & Nicholsons have already collaborated to the construction of two megayacht: Serene, of 134 meters, and Ocean Victory, 140 meters, delivered respective in 2011 and 2014.
"To acquire a participation in a society of the importance of Camper & Nicholson International - it has emphasized the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono - a meaningful strategic valence has. From today in fact we are one of the first constructors in the promising field of the megayacht to constitute a garrison directed on the market, that it will cover the entire phantom of typical activity of this business, from the sale to the marketing to the management of the life-cycle of these particular units. This partnership will afford us to increase our competences and therefore to ulteriorly upgrade our role in a section that assures interesting margins".
"In single nine months of property - it has commented Gualtiero Giori, executive chairman of Camper & Nicholsons International - we have before acquired the brand of Camper & Nicholsons and now we receive with enthusiasm an investor of the weight of Fincantieri. Both the companies have in municipality a long and proud tradition and are today leader in the respective fields. We do not see the hour to receive their support in order to carry Camper & Nicholsons to new goals of success in the years to come".
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The navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri has undersigned an agreement in order to acquire, through a capital increase, a quota minority of Camper & Nicholsons International, company specialized in the sale, chartering, commercialization, management and construction of luxury yacht that last year is passed under the property of the Helvetian Colosseum Services KNOWS. The agreement previews the possibility for Fincantieri to increase own participation successively.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
