Home Who are we Subsidiaries Recruitment Hurry Contact Press Release - February 2015 THE VROMMAN COMPANY JOINS THE BOUCHARD GROUP The VROMMAN company, JOHN DEERE concessionaire for the Eure, Oise, Somme and Val d'Oise, whose head office is located in Gisors (27), joins the BOUCHARD Group. For VROMMAN, this agreement with the BOUCHARD Group is the culmination of in-depth reflection and study aimed at identifying the various possible alternatives in order to ensure the sustainability and development of the company and to continue to serve its customers with a high level of quality, this in the known context of the restructuring of agricultural machinery, a direct consequence of the major changes in agriculture. For its part, the BOUCHARD Group, chaired by Philippe BERNARD and whose subsidiary BOUCHARD AGRICULTURE is the JOHN DEERE and PROMODIS concessionaire for Seine et Marne and Oise, practices a regular policy of gentle and controlled growth while remaining strictly in its business. basic. This policy enables the BOUCHARD Group to always strengthen the quality of all of its services and to maintain an excellent level of competitiveness in all of its markets. Here are the main points of the operation: - The new shareholder of VROMMAN is BOUCHARD HOLDING represented by Philippe BERNARD - The VROMMAN company becomes a fully-fledged subsidiary of the BOUCHARD Group, of which the Managing Director is Sébastien DELOFFRE (former Purchasing Director of the VROMMAN company). - L’entité et la dénomination « VROMMAN » sont conservées. - Le partenariat avec la marque JOHN DEERE ainsi que le secteur concédé sont maintenus. - Toutes les opérations commerciales et de service effectuées par la société VROMMAN se feront dans une totale continuité, sans changement et dans les mêmes infrastructures avec les mêmes ressources (humaines et matérielles). Rappelons que le Groupe BOUCHARD, basé à St Brice en Seine & Marne, réalise un CA de 66 M€ avec un effectif de 180 personnes. Il compte 6 filiales : - BOUCHARD AGRICULTURE, concessionnaire matériels agricoles et espaces verts JOHN DEERE et PROMODIS (77-60). - BOUCHARD FORETS, concessionnaire matériels forestiers JOHN DEERE (quart Nord de la France). - BOUCHARD DIFFUSION, importateur de matériels agricoles pour la France (Fantini, Westfiled, Zurn…) - BOUCHARD MANUTENTION, handling equipment dealer MANITOU, TOYOTA BT and KUBOTA (Ile de France) - ALPHA LOCATION, ACTIS LOCATION franchisee for the rental of handling equipment in Ile de France. - BOUCHARD ALGERIE, import / export of agricultural equipment. The VROMMAN company, which today totals a turnover of over 34 M €, 49 employees and 4 bases, therefore becomes the seventh subsidiary of the BOUCHARD Group. Press contacts: Patricia JEANNEAU - Communication & Marketing Director, BOUCHARD Group patricia.jeanneau@groupe-bouchard.com Cécile REBOUR - Communication & Marketing Officer, BOUCHARD Group cecile.rebour@groupe-bouchard.com © 2017 Bouchard Holding