EXEL INDUSTRIES
EXEL INDUSTRIES is a French société anonyme registered with SIREN 095550356, continuously recorded in the French national business register (INSEE Sirene and the INPI Registre National des Entreprises) since 1 January 1955. The registration number on file for this profile, 09555035600067, corresponds to an active administrative establishment of the company at 78 Boulevard Malesherbes, 75008 Paris, which opened on 1 April 2022; this is the establishment’s opening date rather than the date the legal entity was created. The company’s statutory registered office (siège social) is at 54 Rue Marcel Paul, 51200 Épernay, France, and its administrative status in the business register is recorded as active.
Trading as the EXEL Industries Group, the company designs, manufactures and markets spraying, coating and fluid-application equipment across three main areas: agricultural spraying and sugar-beet harvesting equipment sold under brands including Berthoud, Hardi, Tecnoma, Agrifac and Holmer; industrial surface-coating and painting equipment marketed as SAMES; and consumer garden-watering and irrigation products sold under the Hozelock, Tricoflex and Cooper Pegler brands. According to the group’s official website, EXEL Industries operates more than twenty industrial sites in France and other parts of Europe, together with facilities in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Australia, and it generates the large majority of its sales outside France.
EXEL INDUSTRIES has traded on Euronext Paris since 1997 under the ticker code EXE (ISIN FR0004527638). For the 2023-2024 financial year, the group reported consolidated revenue of approximately 1.1 billion euros and around 3,800 employees across 33 countries, according to its official full-year results announcement published in December 2024; the French business register separately records comparable 2024 company-level turnover of approximately 1.099 billion euros under this SIREN. More recent company commentary points to lower group revenue of roughly 983 million euros for the 2024-2025 financial year.
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Shareholders
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Shareholders of EXEL INDUSTRIES
Portfolio-holdings data on file, verified 10 August 2026, identifies five minority institutional shareholders, each holding between approximately 1.6 percent and 2.9 percent of ordinary shares, linked to Dimensional Fund Advisors-managed funds, including the DFA World ex U.S. Targeted Value Portfolio, the DFA International Small Cap Value Portfolio, the DFA International Sustainability Core 1 Portfolio, the Brighthouse Funds Trust II BH/Dimensional International Small Company Portfolio, and the Dimensional ETF Trust World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF. These are fund-level portfolio disclosures rather than French statutory threshold-crossing notices, and together they represent only a small fraction of total share capital. Financial-market data providers separately and consistently report that the founding Ballu family, both directly and through the family holding company SAS EXEL, controls a substantial majority of EXEL INDUSTRIES’ share capital; historical sources place the family’s combined stake at around 76 percent in 2019, with more recent third-party sources citing a figure in the low-to-mid 80s of a percent. No single, dated French securities-regulator threshold-crossing notice confirming a precise current percentage was located during this research, so the family stake is reported here as widely cited rather than independently verified against a primary filing.
Data availability
Country availability: Partial. France requires listed companies’ major shareholders to file threshold-crossing declarations (déclarations de franchissement de seuil) with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers, and EXEL INDUSTRIES’ own historical disclosures confirm control by the Ballu family through SAS EXEL, but a complete, precisely dated breakdown of the full shareholder register was not independently confirmed from a primary regulatory filing in this research pass.
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle), including entries the profile above does not cover.
| Shareholder | Type | Holding | Source Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighthouse Fds Tr II-BH/Dimensional International Small Co Port | 2.9% | INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) | |
| Dimensional ETF Tr-Dimensional World ex U.S. Core Equity 2 ETF | 2.5% | INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) | |
| DFA International Small Cap Value Portfolio | 2.4% | INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) | |
| DFA Investment Dimensions-DFA World Ex U.S. Targeted Value Port | 1.8% | INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) | |
| DFA International Sustainability Core 1 Portfolio | 1.6% | INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle) |
Officers
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Directors and officers of EXEL INDUSTRIES
Company officer records reviewed for this profile name five active group-level officers out of eleven total records held on file: Group Chief Executive Officer Daniel Tragus, Group Chief Financial Officer Guillaume Jacq, Chief Executive Officer of the Sames Kremlin industrial-coatings business Cédric Perres, Group Chief Human Resources Officer Philippe Besançon, and Chief Sustainable Transformation Officer Patrick Tristani. According to the group’s own leadership announcements, Daniel Tragus was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer on 20 December 2023, succeeding Yves Belegaud, and Guillaume Jacq was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer on 4 December 2024. Financial-market data providers additionally report that the board of directors (conseil d’administration) is chaired by Patrick Ballu, in the role since 1980, with other board members including Marc Jean-Claude Ballu, Cyril Ballu, Marie-Claire Ballu, Pascale Auger, Sylvain Maccorin, Claude Lopez and Sonia Trocmé-Le Page. None of the sources reviewed discloses officer nationality, and correspondence addresses on file are French service addresses rather than personal residential addresses.
| Name | Role | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Tragus | Group Chief Executive Officer | Active |
| Guillaume Jacq | Group Chief Financial Officer | Active |
| Cédric Perres | Chief Executive Officer, Sames Kremlin Group | Active |
| Philippe Besançon | Group Chief Human Resources Officer | Active |
| Patrick Tristani | Chief Sustainable Transformation Officer | Active |
Recent officer changes
Daniel Tragus succeeded Yves Belegaud as Group Chief Executive Officer effective 20 December 2023. Guillaume Jacq was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer effective 4 December 2024. Both changes are drawn from the group’s own leadership announcements reviewed for this profile.
Data availability
Country availability: Partial. French company registries do not maintain a single consolidated public record of société anonyme board appointments, resignation dates and officer nationality comparable to some other jurisdictions; the roles and dates above combine the company’s own leadership announcements with third-party financial-market data rather than one primary filing, and board composition should be checked against EXEL INDUSTRIES’ latest Document d’Enregistrement Universel for the most current detail.
Registry feed — rows exactly as filed with INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle), including entries the profile above does not cover.
Group Structure
Group structure of EXEL INDUSTRIES
EXEL INDUSTRIES SA carries the French business-register activity code 70.10Z (head-office and management-consultancy activities), consistent with its role as the holding and head-office entity of the wider EXEL Industries group rather than a direct manufacturing operator. According to the group’s official website, EXEL Industries trades through a number of operating brands, including Berthoud, Hardi, Tecnoma, Agrifac, Holmer, Cooper Pegler, Evrard, EXXACT Robotics and Nicolas Sprayers in agricultural spraying and beet-harvesting equipment; SAMES in industrial surface-coating and painting equipment; and Hozelock, Tricoflex, GF Garden, RHEA Marine, Wauquiez and Tofinou in consumer and leisure products, operating from more than twenty industrial sites in France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Romania, the United States and Australia, among other countries. No parent company of EXEL INDUSTRIES SA was identified in the sources reviewed. The official website does not publish the registration numbers, jurisdictions or ownership percentages of these individual operating brands and subsidiaries, so the specific corporate-ownership chain linking EXEL INDUSTRIES SA to each named brand could not be independently verified for this profile beyond the group’s own description of them as part of its business.
Data availability
Country availability: Parent only. EXEL INDUSTRIES SA is identifiable as the group’s French holding and head-office entity from its registered activity code and official group communications, but no filed corporate register or ownership filing confirming individual subsidiary registration numbers, jurisdictions or ownership percentages was located in this research pass; the group’s consolidated financial statements, published in its annual Document d’Enregistrement Universel, would be the primary source for a verified subsidiary list.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is EXEL INDUSTRIES' registration number on file?
Zavia's on-file record shows registration number 09555035600067, the SIRET for an EXEL INDUSTRIES establishment at 78 Boulevard Malesherbes, 75008 Paris, part of the wider SIREN 095550356 recorded in the French national business register.
When was EXEL INDUSTRIES incorporated?
The SIREN 095550356 has been continuously registered in the French national business register since 1 January 1955. The 1 April 2022 date shown on file refers to when the specific Paris establishment tied to the on-file registration number was opened, not to the founding of the legal entity itself.
What is EXEL INDUSTRIES' legal form?
It is registered as a société anonyme (SA) with a board of directors, French legal-nature code 5599, equivalent to a public limited company.
What is EXEL INDUSTRIES' current registration status?
Active, according to the French national business register (INSEE Sirene / INPI Registre National des Entreprises).
Where is EXEL INDUSTRIES registered?
Its statutory registered office (siège social) is at 54 Rue Marcel Paul, 51200 Épernay, France. A separate active establishment on file, tied to the registration number held by Zavia, is located at 78 Boulevard Malesherbes, 75008 Paris.
Is EXEL INDUSTRIES still listed on a stock exchange?
Yes. EXEL INDUSTRIES has traded on Euronext Paris since 1997 under ticker EXE, ISIN FR0004527638. This research found no evidence of a completed delisting or take-private transaction affecting this entity.
Was EXEL INDUSTRIES restructured or taken private around 2022-2023?
No confirmed evidence of a 2022-2023 delisting or take-private restructuring was found for this entity. The SIREN 095550356 has been continuously registered since 1955, and current sources indicate the company remains listed on Euronext Paris under its long-standing ISIN.
What does EXEL INDUSTRIES do?
It designs, manufactures and markets spraying, coating and fluid-application equipment for agriculture, industrial surface treatment, and consumer garden use, under brands such as Berthoud, Hardi, SAMES, Hozelock and Tricoflex.
Who are EXEL INDUSTRIES' main current officers?
Company records name Daniel Tragus as Group Chief Executive Officer, in the role since 20 December 2023, and Guillaume Jacq as Group Chief Financial Officer, in the role since 4 December 2024, among other active group officers.
Who controls EXEL INDUSTRIES?
Financial-market data indicates the founding Ballu family, directly and through the family holding company SAS EXEL, holds a substantial majority of the share capital, with a small remainder held by institutional investors. A fully dated, primary-source ownership breakdown was not confirmed in this research.
What is EXEL INDUSTRIES' registered business activity code?
NAF code 70.10Z, covering head-office and management-consultancy activities, reflecting its role as the group's holding entity rather than a direct manufacturing operator.
What is EXEL INDUSTRIES' latest reported revenue?
The group reported consolidated revenue of approximately 1.1 billion euros for the 2023-2024 financial year, according to its official full-year results announcement published in December 2024, with more recent commentary citing roughly 983 million euros for 2024-2025.
Does EXEL INDUSTRIES have subsidiaries?
The group trades through brands including Berthoud, Hardi, SAMES, Hozelock, Tricoflex and others per its official website, but specific subsidiary registration numbers, jurisdictions and ownership percentages were not independently verified for this profile.
What SIREN does Zavia use to identify this company?
SIREN 095550356.
How far back does EXEL INDUSTRIES' corporate history go?
The wider group traces its origins to Tecnoma, founded in 1952 by Vincent Ballu. The SIREN 095550356 currently used to identify EXEL INDUSTRIES has been registered since 1 January 1955.
Is this EXEL INDUSTRIES profile kept up to date?
Zavia.ai periodically checks this record against available registry and company sources; this profile reflects information gathered as of the stated research date, and the underlying record can also be tracked through Zavia's monitoring and API services.