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Top 25 Yacht builders based in France
RevenueBase identified 317 yacht builders headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 5,441 professional contacts across them, including 1,336 with verified work emails. La Rochelle is the largest hub.
This list covers yacht builders headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest yacht builders based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 902 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Vendée 140 years ago by Benjamin Bénéteau, Groupe Beneteau today has international industrial capabilities, with 16 production sites, and a global sales network.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 493 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BENETEAU's story began in 1884 in Croix-de-Vie, in the West of France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fountaine Pajot have been designers and boat builders since 1976.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Couach est un acteur pionnier dans la construction de navires professionnels et de plaisance, comme dans les services navals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Catanagroup” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 177 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Henri Jeanneau's passion and commitment to quality boat building began in 1957.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MB92 La Ciotat, part of the MB92 Group, is a shipyard based on the French Riviera, a traditional hotspot for superyacht charters, providing superyacht refit and repair service on…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dufour designs and builds sailing yachts without compromise on seaworthiness and the pleasure of sailing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The World's Premier High Performance, Luxury, Cruising Catamarans With the launch of the first Gunboat in 2001, Gunboat pioneered the high performance, luxury cruising catamaran…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 1981, Multiplast - Groupe Carboman dessine et réalise des multicoques et des monocoques en matériaux composites high-tech au palmarès inégalé (3 Route du Rhum, 3 Volvo…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IMS was founded in 1987 for the construction of aluminium passenger transport boats.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2006 by François Gabart, MerConcept is involve in the creation and development of sports and innovative projects.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NEEL-TRIMARANS is designing and building cruising trimarans in La Rochelle, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 60 years, Chantiers AMEL in La Rochelle has been cultivating a rare passion: designing and building exceptional sailing yachts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VPLP Design is a world-renowned young international team of French-based naval architects, engineers and designers working from Vannes, Nantes and Paris in sail and motor craft…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sparcraft has been associated with engineering excellence and innovation in the marine industry for over 50 years, specialising in the design, engineering and manufacture of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PRESTIGE perfects and reinvents an industrial savoir-faire honed by decades of experiences at sea and inherited from the JEANNEAU shipyard.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Expersea provides a range of specialised luxury yacht services including Charter, Management and Brokerage.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Abys Yachting, acteur incontournable du secteur du Yachting basé sur la Côte d’Azur, est expert dans la vente de yachts neufs, d'occasion (brokerage), charter, SAV, gestion et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le chantier naval Pogo Structures construit des voiliers rapides adaptés au large et aux équipages réduits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2003, Allures Yachting builds exceptional boats for cruising in hot and cold latitudes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Nautech group, specialized in the refit and maintenance of yahcts, is a human-sized shipyard with more than 25 years of experience in the service of some of the most beautiful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Depuis 2004, Yacht Concept démontre le bien-fondé d’un concept original : la maîtrise d’œuvre dans le nautisme, associant la gestion de projet à l’ingénierie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 20 ans, chez RM, nous avons imaginé des bateaux originaux, performants, de plus en plus élégants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As one of the world leaders in refitting and repairing mega yachts, LA CIOTAT SHIPYARDS is managed by the SEMIDEP-Ciotat Local Public Company (SPL).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: yacht builders. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names yacht builders.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of yacht builders, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name yacht builders. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Yacht builders based in France at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 317 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among yacht builders, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “yacht builders”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names yacht builders), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among yacht builders, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,336 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names yacht builders, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many yacht builders are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 317 yacht builders headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Groupe Beneteau, headquartered in St Gilles Croix De Vie, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most yacht builders?
La Rochelle leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Antibes (13) and Cannes (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,336 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 317 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.