Sunseeker
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| Type | Private |
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| Headquarters | Poole, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Robert Braithwaite (Founder and Managing Director) |
| Industry | Luxury motor yachts |
| Revenue | £293 million (2008) |
| Employees | Approximately 2230 (2008) |
| Website | Sunseeker.com |
Sunseeker International, is a UK luxury motor yacht manufacturer. Their headquarters and assembly factory is in Poole Harbour, at Poole in Dorset, England. The company has been making motor boats since 1979.
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[edit] Profile
Manufacturing is undertaken mainly in Poole, in seven production plants and shipyards. An additional deep-water shipyard is used to build the 105 yacht and larger vessels. In March 2007, the company announced a 500 job expansion program, with a new site on the Isle of Portland,[1] A new factory is being developed at New Quay Road, Poole.
In October 2002, Robert Braithwaite, the founder of Sunseeker International, was named Ernst & Young's UK Entrepreneur of the Year.[2]
In 2006 Robert Braithwaite led a £44 million MBO of the company, backed by Bank of Scotland.[3]
The company features in the 2008 Sunday Times list Profit Track 100 of the most profitable non listed companies and in the Top Track 250 list of Mid sized non listed companies.
[edit] Appearance in popular culture
Sunseeker boats feature in the James Bond films: Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough and Casino Royale. The most recent film, Quantum of Solace, shows Sunseeker's new 37m Yacht and the Superhawk 43. It also features a cameo role for Sunseeker's managing director, Robert Braithwaite, in one of Sunseeker's very first open-cockpit speedboats the Sovereign 17. [4]
[edit] Models
- Sports Boats: Sportsfisher 37
- Offshore Cruisers: Portofino 35, 46, 47, 53
- Performance Motoryachts: Predator 55, 62, 64, 72, 74, 82, 84, 92 Sport, 95-100, 108 and the XS Sport
- Flybridge Motoryachts: Manhattan 50, 60, 66
- Yachts: Yacht 75, 82, 86, 90, 94, 105, 34M, 37M Sport, 37M Trideck, 46M Trideck.
[edit] Gallery
 Sunseeker Predator 82 motoryacht in Poole Harbour |
 Sunseeker 105 "El Bosco V" in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. |
[edit] References
- ^ BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | Luxury yacht maker's 500 new jobs
- ^ BBC NEWS | Business | Sunseeker scoops entrepreneur award
- ^ Sunday Times Top Track 250 List 2008
- ^ James Bond 007 :: MI6 - The Home Of James Bond
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