No more motorcycle license? Go for it at Polaris !

But where will Polaris Industries stop? In addition to motorcycles, quads, snowmobiles, recreational vehicles, electric or utility, the American giant will now produce … cars without a license! The group based in Minnesota (USA) has indeed just acquired all of the shares of Aixam, one of the main…

But where will Polaris Industries stop? In addition to motorcycles, quads, snowmobiles, recreational vehicles, electric or utility, the American giant will now produce … cars without a license! The group based in Minnesota (USA) has just acquired all of the shares of Aixam, one of the main manufacturers of these famous "carts"..

Located in Aix-les-Bains (Savoie), Aixam employs more than 200 people and would have sold nearly 5,000 cars without a license in France last year. Thanks to (or rather "because of …") the repressive relentlessness of the government, the activity of this company founded in 1983 does not know the crisis and would have generated 90 million euros of turnover in 2012.

Rather convincing figures, enough in any case to decide Polaris Industries to take advantage of its excellent financial health (2.5 billion dollars in turnover in 2012!) To afford Aixam. More and more aggressive in the custom segment via its own brand of motorcycles, Victory, and the Rican group continues in this way to extend its field of action..

Note that this is not the first "French takeover" for Polaris Industries: in 2011, the group bought Goupil, a French brand of small utility and electric vehicles..

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