Gildo Pallanca Pastor, President of Venturi Automobiles, acquires VOXAN
Marking a new strategy for VOXAN, this acquisition will complement that of VENTURI in the field of electric mobility.
VENTURI and VOXAN, whose destinies are notably linked through the same designer, Sacha Lakic, now find themselves side by side to embody the innovation policy which has been deployed by Gildo Pallanca Pastor since acquisition of the VENTURI brand in 2001.
VOXAN will benefit from VENTURI's experience and expertise in spearhead technologies in order to differentiate itself from large industrial motorbike groups and become a viable business enterprise.The take-over will propel VOXAN towards the future of mobility : the magnificent bikes it has produced until now will remain "collectors' pieces", a strong image on which the brand will continue to rely in order to evolve towards electric propulsion.
Sport will still be a development area for VOXAN, complemented by models intended for wider distribution.
Development of the first electric VOXAN will take almost three years. It will ultimately be manufactured in the Group's assembly plant at Sablé-sur-Sarthe.
After 15 years of activity, the firm was placed in official receivership on December 29th, 2009. This take-over, effective as of June 2nd, 2010, encompasses among other things all the brands, designs, models and moulds associated with VOXAN.