CPI Books
| CPI | |
|---|---|
| legal form | SAS (simplified stock corporation French law) |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat |
Boulogne-Billancourt , France
|
| management | Pierre-François Catté, President Directeur Général |
| Number of employees | 2500 |
| sales | around 600 million euros |
| Branch | printing house |
| Website | https://www.cpi-print.com/ |
CPI SAS (also known as Groupe CPI or CPI Books ; previously Chevrillon Philippe Industrie ) is an international book printing group based in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris . The turnover amounts to over 600 million euros; the company is one of the largest book printing companies in Europe and is the world market leader in monochrome and two-color book printing. Around 2500 employees work in the company. Every year around 430 million books are printed across the group in 16 production sites in 5 countries (France, United Kingdom, Germany, the Czech Republic and Spain) (as of 2020).
background
The company was founded in 1996 when the two private investors Cyrille Chevrillon and Nicolas Philippe took over the almost insolvent printer Bussière in France. Since September 2005, the financial investors CVC Capital Partners and Electra Partners Europe have been involved in the company as part of a management buy-out .
In August 2013, it became known that the Impala Group had taken over CPI , which was supported in this transaction by the French public bank Banque publique d'investissement (Bpifrance). Impala is a French conglomerate owned by the entrepreneur Jacques Veyrat, which operates in the energy, finance and industrial sectors.
As part of the takeover, CPI will be rescheduled so that the company's financial liabilities fell to 15 million euros. The new shareholders Impala, Bpifrance and the management invested 21 million euros in equity and equity-like funds to support CPI in its business development. Upon completion of the transaction, Impala became the majority shareholder with 52 percent.
Holdings
The printing houses belong to the group of companies
- Ebner & Spiegel (E & S) in Ulm -Böfingen
- Clausen & Bosse in Leck (North Friesland)
- CPI Buchbücher.de in Birkach ( Frensdorf ) and buchbücher.ch AG in Pieterlen for book-on-demand in Germany and Switzerland
- Ueberreuter Print / Moravia Books in Pohořelice, Czech Republic
- Brodard & Taupin in La Flèche
- Bussière in Saint-Amand-Montrond
- Hérrisey in Evreux
- Firmin Didot in Mesnil-sur-l'Estrée
- Imprimerie France Quercy in Mercues
- Cox & Wyman in Reading
- Mackays in Chatham
- The Bath Press in Bath and Glasgow
- Anthony Rowe in Chippenham and Eastbourne
- Fulmar in Croydon (Fulmar, in turn, includes Bookmarque, The White Quill Press, Fulmar Color Printing, Pegasus Colorprint, Quadracolor, Royle Corporate Print, Royle Design Associates, Royle Financial Print and WE Baxter)
- Koninklijke Wöhrmann in Zutphen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Chevrillon Philippe website. Retrieved June 25, 2014 (French, figures given refer to 2005).
- ↑ Key Figures. CPI, accessed August 29, 2020 (French).
- ↑ CPI annonce être repris par un consortium d'investisseurs mené par Impala et restructure sa dette. (pdf) press release. CPI, July 31, 2013, accessed June 25, 2014 (French).