Turnover: 1.644 billion EUR (2022)

Country: France

Leboncoin.fr is a classified ads website belonging to the Norwegian Adevinta group, founded in 2006. It is the fifth-largest site in France, with 28 million unique visitors every month and 29 million ads online, with 800,000 ads posted every day. Placing and reading an ad is free of charge. Classified ads can be for goods, services or jobs. They are divided into ten categories, including services - ticketing - events - private lessons - carpooling.

Leboncoin Groupe owns 5 brands: leboncoin, avendrealouer.fr, leDénicheur, MachineryZone, Agriaffaires.

The group is number one in France in the real estate, automotive and employment markets. In the automotive market, it has 12 million unique visitors every month, 3 million online ads, 92% of PDM on pro cars in 2017: it is considered France's favorite automotive site.

The company is part of the Norwegian Adevinta Group (€727 million sales in 2019)

News

Leboncoin coveted by two investment funds 23/09/2023

  • Leboncoin is owned by Adevinta, a Norwegian company specializing in online ads.
  • Adevinta has received a non-binding takeover offer from a consortium led by Blackstone and Permira, two investment funds.
  • Adevinta's two main shareholders are eBay, a US company, and Schibsted, a Norwegian media group, which are supporting the takeover bid.
  • In 2021, Adevinta bought eBay's online classifieds business for $9.2 billion.
  • Adevinta was worth almost 93 billion kroner (8.1 billion euros) at the close of trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange on Thursday.

The Gafa tax has a negative impact on the results of Leboncoin.fr and its parent company, Schibsted. 25/11/2022

  • Schibsted, now Adevinta, the parent company of Leboncoin, subject to new tax Provision of €40 million affecting good third-quarter results (revenues up 10%)
  • Group sales (€480 million) split between 40% automotive, 19% advertising, the remainder real estate and e-commerce
  • Leboncoin is the second-largest e-commerce site in terms of audience, behind Amazon and ahead of Cdiscount

Financial Data

DUNS: 521724336

Legal Name: LBC FRANCE

Address: 24 RUE DES JEUNEURS , 75002 PARIS 2

Number of employees: Entre 500 et 999 salariés (2020)

Capital: 3 252 490 EUR


Financial Data:

Year 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Turnover 280 733 119 237 202 207 232 502 237 212 562 433 188 855 788 167 599 147 152 318 647
Gross margin (€) 298 489 743 250 188 792 241 508 166 216 879 157 189 516 463 169 236 429 154 199 058
EBITDA (€) 86 202 227 87 952 979 105 675 986 115 637 730 116 896 666 106 312 558 92 983 604
Operating profit (€) 78 322 359 82 903 029 104 222 062 115 632 941 115 227 471 106 131 483 92 649 612
Net profit (€) 49 613 682 54 561 854 64 098 437 73 458 657 73 362 952 68 185 950 59 806 649
Turnover growth rate (%) 18,4 2 9,4 12,6 12,7 10 -
Ebitda margin rate (%) 30,7 37,1 45,5 54,4 61,9 63,4 61
Operating margin rate (%) 27,9 35 44,8 54,4 61 63,3 60,8
Working Capital (turnover days) 16,6 30 56,1 17,1 35,8 28,7 25,7
Working Capital requirements (turnover days) 1,4 50,4 39,5 21,2 49 31,7 38,3
Net margin (%) 17,7 23 27,6 34,6 38,8 40,7 39,3
Added value / Turnover (%) 62,9 70,5 74,4 77,4 76,9 77,6 73,8
Wages and social charges (€) 47 522 283 39 783 111 28 507 266 20 436 529 14 737 795 11 702 955 9 254 886
Salaries / Turnover (%) 16,9 16,8 12,3 9,6 7,8 7 6,1

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