Parrot has managed its capital increase, all created 17,575,279 shares were purchased at a price of 17 euros each. The goal: to accelerate its development.
The French giant drone, listed on Euronext, sign one of the finest exercise of the year with the announcement Saturday, December 12th a capital increase of 300 million euros. The operation, which began in November will be primarily intended to enable Parrot to accelerate its growth and consolidate its leadership in the markets for consumer and professional drones drones.
This fundraiser allows individual investors to enter the capital: IDG Capital Partners that accesses 1.5% stake in Parrot and Bpifrance which will hold about 5% stake in Parrot post-operation. Henri Seydoux, Parrot's largest shareholder through the company he controls Horizon, attended the lift for a total of about 93 million, but still sees its share will decrease from 40.69% before the capital increase to 35.16%.
This massive capital increase equivalent to three-quarters of the market capitalization of the company established in 1994 that has made a strategic turn in 2010 with its first drone, the Parrot AR Drone. If Parrot reaffirmed its willingness to consolidate its position in the UAV sector, the consumer market for recreational drones would not be the only objective.
For several months in fact, Parrot has increased redemptions and equity. A policy of external growth that has earned him a stake in senseFly Swiss company that designs ultralight and autonomous flying wing for mapping, but also Airinov specialist agricultural drones and hosted Parrot as majority shareholder, as EOS , specialty mobile robotics surveillance. Not to mention MicaSense, an American company as it specializes in agricultural areas Parrot drone which now holds 51%.
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