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Mrs.Roux is Chairwoman of the Beneteau Foundation since 2005, which became the Beneteau Foundation in 2020 (Endowment Fund), Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of BERI 21 (Groupe Beneteau’s controlling holding structure) and sits on Beneteau SA’s Board of Directors.
She joined the family company Chantiers BENETEAU in 1964 to lead the small-scale traditional yard’s transformation from commercial fishing to recreational boats. She was Chairwoman of the Board of Directors from 1976 to 2005. In 2005, she structured the Group’s governance based on a limited company with Management and Supervisory Boards.
Vice-Chairwoman of Groupe Beneteau’s Supervisory Board from 2005 to 2015, she recently handed over the position of Vice-Chairman to her son, Louis-Claude Roux in 2015. In 2019, the Beneteau Group returned to a Board of Directors system.
Mrs. Roux was also President of the French Nautical Industries Federation (FIN) from 1992 to 2009 and a member of the L’Oréal Group’s Board of Directors from 2007 to 2015.
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About Groupe Beneteau
Founded in Vendée 140 years ago by Benjamin Bénéteau, Groupe Beneteau is today a world leader in the boating industry. With an international industrial presence spanning 16 production sites and a worldwide commercial network, the Group generated revenue of €1 billion in 2024 and has a workforce of more than 6500 employees mainly in France, United States, Poland, Italy, Portugal, and Tunisia.
True to its mission – Bringing dreams to water – Groupe Beneteau designs and builds boats and services to make every experience on the water truly unique. Through its nine brands, its Boat division offers more than 135 boat models craft to meet the diverse needs and sailing projects of its customers, whether sailing or motoring, monohull or catamaran . Through its Boating Solutions division, the Groupe Beneteau is also involved in services covering daily or weekly boat hire, marinas, the digital sector and financing.
