Turnover: 1.59 billion EUR (2022)
Country: France
- Belongs to Groupe Limagrain, €1.6 billion by 2022)
- World leader in seeds ahead of Bayer Monsanto and Syngenta
News
Vilmorin bids farewell to the Paris Bourse after Limagrain's successful takeover bid 11/08/2023
- Vilmorin is the world's fourth-largest seeds company.
- Its historical shareholder, the Limagrain cooperative, held 71.25% of its shares.
- Limagrain had crossed the threshold of 90% of the French seeds company's capital and voting rights.
- Vilmorin was valued at 1.43 billion euros, with 7,200 employees.
- The company's sales for fiscal 2021-2022 were 1.587 billion euros, with net income of 95.4 million euros.
- Limagrain is present in 49 countries and is owned by 1,300 farmers.
Limagrain wants to take seed company Vilmorin off the stock market 02/05/2023
- Vilmorin is the world's fourth largest seed company.
- The cooperative Limagrain, Vilmorin's controlling shareholder, holds 71.25% of the shares and will launch a simplified tender offer for the remaining 28.75%.
- The seed company generated around 10% of its sales in Russia and Ukraine.
- The Limagrain cooperative group boasts sales of 2.1 billion euros and net income of 82 million euros.
- Every year, Vilmorin invests over 16% of its sales in research and development.
- Vilmorin generates around 75% of its sales from field seeds and 25% from vegetable seeds.
Vilmorin: First-half profits thanks to field crops. 31/03/2023
- Sales for the first half (to end December) of the 2022/2023 financial year: 706.5 million euros
- - Sales growth: 24.6%
- - Organic growth: 19.6%
- - Field seeds (61.2% of sales): 38.3% increase
- - Vegetable Seeds: 0.7% decline
Vilmorin's strategy for remaining world leader in vegetable seeds is to focus on innovation. 18/05/2022
- Seeds sales 700 million a year
- More than 30 million seeds sold every year by the French giant, a subsidiary of the Limagrain agricultural cooperative
- 19% of Vilmorin's sales are in Italy.
- More than 320 different varieties on the market.
- The group devotes 16.4% of its annual sales to research and development, half of which is devoted to vegetable seeds, enabling it to market more than 320 different varieties.
Financial Data
DUNS: 377913728
Legal Name: VILMORIN & CIE
Address: 4 QUAI DE LA MEGISSERIE , 75001 PARIS 1
Number of employees: Entre 250 et 499 salariés (2020)
Capital: 349 488 703 EUR
Financial Data:
| Year | 2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 93 894 000 | 84 244 000 | 78 277 000 | 80 819 000 | 62 250 000 |
| Gross margin (€) | 95 380 000 | 104 480 000 | - | - | - |
| EBITDA (€) | -4 981 000 | 6 129 000 | 65 896 000 | 67 290 | - |
| Operating profit (€) | -14 253 000 | -5 327 000 | 65 896 000 | 67 290 | - |
| Net profit (€) | 57 910 | 42 382 000 | 26 253 000 | 32 700 000 | 14 580 000 |
| Turnover growth rate (%) | -1,2 | 2,5 | -3,1 | 29,8 | - |
| Ebitda margin rate (%) | -5,3 | 7,3 | - | - | - |
| Operating margin rate (%) | -15,2 | -6,4 | - | - | - |
| Working Capital (turnover days) | 1 614,9 | 2 304,8 | - | - | - |
| Working Capital requirements (turnover days) | -40,7 | -40,1 | - | - | - |
| Net margin (%) | 0,1 | 505,6 | - | - | - |
| Added value / Turnover (%) | 29,7 | 19,8 | - | - | - |
| Wages and social charges (€) | 33 607 000 | 29 281 000 | - | - | - |
| Salaries / Turnover (%) | 35,8 | 34,9 | - | - | - |
Company Managers:
| Position | First Name | Last Name | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Président du conseil d'administration,Directeur général | Sébastien | Vidal | 47 | |
| Directeur général délégué | Franck Roger | Berger | 65 | |
| Administrateur | Marie-Yvonne | Guillaume | 64 | |
| Administrateur | Séverine | Fabre | 44 | |
| Administrateur | Géraldine | Pron | 55 | |
| Administrateur | Pierre-Antoine | Rigaud | 36 | |
| Administrateur | Eric Julien | Greliche | 49 |
Studies mentioning this company
The seed and grains market - France
Other companies mentioned:
- Vilmorin (Groupe Limagrain)
- Deleplanque
- Florimond Desprez
- Perles d'Anjou - CAPL (Coopérative agricole des Pays de la Loire)
- Syngenta
- Bayer Crop Science
- Corteva
- Semae
- HM Clause France
The vegetable seed market - France
Other companies mentioned:
- Truffaut
- Mr. Bricolage
- Castorama France (Kingfisher)
- Leroy Merlin France (Adeo)
- VillaVerde
- Delbard (Teract groupe)
- Carrefour Groupe
- Intermarché ITM Les Mousquetaires
- Graines Voltz
- Limagrain Ingrédients
- Les Pépinières Bravard
- Deleplanque
- Vilmorin (Groupe Limagrain)
- Florimond Desprez
- HM Clause France
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