PRB Sailing Team

The PRB Sailing Team is primarily focused on offshore round the world sailing and is the longest term sponsor of Vendee Globe competitors. The current team manager François Dubreuil.

PRB - The sponsor

 * Year of creation: 1975
 * Head office: La Mothe-Achard, Vendée, France
 * Chairman of the board: Jean-Jacques Laurent

Business activity :
 * coating and flooring products for the building industry - products for façades and decoration (paint, TPC...), for tiling and soft flooring, for masonry; ranges of tiles and reconstituted stone.
 * 110M turnover in 2006
 * 5% in export
 * 3rd biggest producer of façade rendering in France
 * 16% of the French single-layer façade market (hydraulic binder)
 * 500 000 tonnes of rendering per year
 * No1 independent rendering manufacturer
 * Staff at production site: 200 employees
 * Number of sales representatives: 83
 * 13 warehouses nationally
 * 7 production units on the same site