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At the 40th Cannes Yachting Festival, the Ferretti Group

displayed a fleet of 25 yachts. Outstanding

economic and financial figures were also presented

he increasingly clear and inexorable results up to September 2017, which once again were even
success of the Ferretti Group became better than expected. On 31 August, the Ferretti Group had
even more firmly established at the 40th consolidated orders for its serial brands amounting to €259
Cannes Yachting Festival. The show on the million, which was in line with the forecasts for the current
T French Riviera marks the official start of the year in the budget. The Group estimates that it will end the
new yachting year and the Ferretti Group had the biggest year with total orders for its serial brands of €400 million,
fleet of all the exhibitors: 25 yachts of between 8 and 37 me- thus consolidating and building on the exceptional results
tres, including a magnificent Rivamare at the entrance, in achieved in 2016. The successful sales performance and
front of the Palais des Festival. The Group also led the way constant improvements to the efficiency and productivity
at this edition of the event with an unparalleled six interna- in all of the group’s yards meant that after the first eight
tional debuts and one redesign: the Ferretti Yachts 780 and months of 2017, the consolidated revenues were up by +10%
Ferretti Yachts 920, the new version of the Ferretti Yachts on the same period in 2016 to €344 million. Throughout
550, the Pershing 9X, the 56’ Rivale and 100’ Corsaro by the Cannes Yachting Festival, as always the Ferretti Group
Riva and the Navetta 33 by Custom Line. During the press was joined by prestigious luxury partners, thus enhancing
conference, the CEO of Ferretti Group Alberto Galassi and the experience for visitors and owners who had already been
the Chief Commercial Officer Stefano de Vivo presented the treated to sea trials and on-board tours of yachts.

Above, an aerial view of part of the Ferretti Group booth at the 2017 edition of the Cannes Yachting Festival. The Group was the absolute star of the show
with a fleet of 25 yachts, the largest of the event, and 6 premieres, indeed a record for this last edition: Ferretti Yachts 780
and Ferretti Yachts 920, Pershing 9X, Riva 56’ Rivale and 100’ Corsaro and the new Navetta 33 by Custom Line, on display in the Super Yacht Extension area.

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