Turnover: 113 million EUR (2022)

Country: France

  • Leading integrated distributor of electronic cigarettes, accessories and vaping liquids
  • More than 50 stores

News

Vaping: the French prefer specialty stores 09/03/2023

  • More than 3,500 electronic cigarette stores in France
  • 25% of sales online, 15% through tobacconists and 60% in stores
  • 6.3 million French people will be using electronic cigarettes by 2022
  • Le Petit Vapoteur, founded in Cherbourg in 2011 and European leader in the sale of vaping products, with over 2 million customers and sales of €113 million in 2022, 317 employees and 7,000 daily orders, 82% of which are placed over the Internet
  • Clopinette, founded in 2011 in Caen (Calvados), heads a network of 110 stores, 50% of which are franchises, with sales of 26.4 million euros and 160 employees (over 300 with its franchises)
  • Cigusto, founded in 2013 (400 employees) and based in Saran, Loiret, controls 111 stores, 98% of which are located in shopping centers.Carrefour has taken a 30% stake in the company's capital. This year, the company plans to open a further 40 stores, with a target of 250 by 2025. Sales of 50 million euros in 2022 should almost double by 2023

Studies mentioning this company

The e-cigarette market - France

Other companies mentioned:

  • My Vapors Europe - Joyetech
  • Alfaliquid Gaïatrend
  • Kumulus Vape
  • J Well
  • Kangertech
  • DLICE / Nocoswitch
  • Vaporesso / Smoore technologie
  • Le Petit Vapoteur
  • Cigusto
  • Clopinette
  • VDLV
  • Aeroma
  • Vapostore
  • Smok-it
  • Juul Labs
  • Innokin Technology
  • Republic Technologies Groupe