A BUSINESS COMMUNITY SPECIALISING IN YACHT REFIT, MAINTENANCE AND SERVICES
Support, promoting, developing and safeguarding professional yachting in the French Mediterranean
Presentation
Riviera Yachting Network
For over 20 years, Riviera Yachting Network, a business community specialising in refits, repair, maintenance and services for yachts, has been committed to helping develop the yachting industry in the South Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur region. Riviera Yachting Network and its member companies, as well as its professional, economic, institutional and political partners, are constantly striving to shape the yachting industry of the future and remain the world’s number one territory for yachting (sailing and maintenance). This consortium of companies’s initiatives for the yachting industry are financially supported by the South Provence-Alpes Côte d’Azur Region and by the Toulon Provence Méditerranée Metropolis.
A shared ambition
Riviera Yachting Network is today made up of around 110 companies, all specialising in refits, repair/maintenance, provisioning and services for yachts. Based in the French Mediterranean, primarily along the coastline running from Marseille to Menton, these companies strive for excellence. The consortium aims to offer the highest-quality services to ensure that the Mediterranean coast remains both attractive and competitive. Thanks to the participation of internationally-acclaimed companies, Riviera Yachting Network is a major hub for yacht refits in Europe.
Le mot du président
Laurent Falaize
President of Riviera Yachting Network
The Southern Provence-Alpes-Côte
d'Azur region, a yachting mecca...
Our coasts, legendary ports, cultural heritage and tourism, combined with our renowned expertise in the yachting industry, provide us with a major competitive asset on a global scale.
This collective strength must be protected and constantly updated to meet the demands of the yachting industry. This is the key focus for our Riviera Yachting Network member companies. Each of our professionals has developed a high level of expertise in their respective fields, gaining our customers’ trust and giving them peace of mind. Our shared goal: to offer the highest level of expertise in yachting services.
AN ESTABLISHED BUSINESS COMMUNITY
Supporting
Our members are committed to supporting each other. Together they form the network’s strength by fulfilling requirements with the same high standards. The business representatives themselves approve the activities implemented by the network to support them. Communication, sharing and collaborative strategiesare at the very centre of the Riviera Yachting Network’s mission. We contribute to structuring the yachting industry in the South of France.
Riviera Yachting Network also helps ports and urban areas to become aware of the industry’s economic impact and its effects in order toproduce developmental projects.
Acting as an interface between businesses and policy makers, the consortium provides guidance to local authorities, as well as member and prospective member companies, in their choices relating to yachting activities.
Promoting
The proven skills and expertise of leading companies form the basis of an exceptional global offer. This is enhanced through participation at yachting and trade shows, B2B meetings and events promoting the industry’s professions and their diversity.
Monaco, Cannes and Amsterdam are among the key events in which our community and a large number of member companies participate. This exceptional expertise represents a major asset, namely a global offer that is qualified and strengthened by internationally renowned territories: They add to it by increasing its visibility andmaking it particularly appealing, thanks to the spectacular large yachts that regularly sail along our coastline.
Developing
and safeguarding
The community’s key goal is to develop the yachting industry along the French Mediterranean coastline. Among the joint initiatives undertaken, is coordinating the infrastructure and planning the variety of skills required to produce a technical yachting offer. As a result, the current offer allows yachts of all sizes to be handled and catered for in France, while also making use of the large reception capacities and the expertise of some of the finest professionals.
Remaining competitive and attractive in a global niche market requires constant review and adaptability for technological and practical developments. and practical developments. The innovative solutions offered will provide real competitive advantages in the future. Riviera Yachting Network strives to maintain yachting along our coasts, by targeting and developing loyalty among the large yacht community.
Defending the assets of a powerful and unique industryis also reflected in the consortium’s strategic intelligence and collaborative work. We closely monitor emerging legislative and regulatory restrictionsto manage the yachting industry’s economic sustainability and impact.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
The Riviera Yachting Network management team
Laurent
Falaize
Fioul 83
President
Céline
RICHAUD
Dazin / Sonocar
Vice-president
David
SIEUR
Yacht assistance services
Vice-president
Nicolas
MONNIER
Favier Casanova Assurances
Treasurer
Antoine
PERRY
SeaSatCom
Vice-treasurer
Christophe
BOUTINAUD
INTER-ACTION
Management team member
Denis
CARABIN
IMS shipyard
Management team member
Frédéric
DE ROVERE
Transmetal industrie
Management team member
Fabrice
Garello
Marine transmissions
Management team member
Pierre-François
LEPOUTRE
Monaco Marine
Management team member
Frank
RAVEZ
KREATIVE
Management team member
Fabrice
VIARD
Liberty
Management team member
Partenaires
Frédéric
VERRONS
Fédération des industries nautiques
Management team member
Jacques
CONZALES
Groupement des Équipages professionnels du yachting
Management team member
Andrew
SCHOFIELD
Professional Yachting Association
Management team member
Fabien
RAFFRAY
Registre International Français
Management team member
