We serve clients in more than 70 countries worldwide through our direct presence in Europe, Asia and the USA and a 52-strong network of meticulously selected dealers. Ferretti Group motor yachts are the finest expression of Italian-made elegance and creative genius. They have long stood out for their exceptional quality and exclusive design, their futuristic technology and uncompromising safety, their timeless allure and supreme performance on the water.

Empowering Expertise

We continually spur each of our brands to go further. We leverage their special know-how, artisanal accomplishment and technological expertise to stay at the cutting edge of the nautical world.

Striving for Innovation

Ferretti Group delivers excellence through constant innovation and pioneering technology. This how we achieve formidable performance and safety at sea, offering clients authentic experiences to satisfy their desires for affirmation and self-expression.

Creating Value

We focus our energy and resources on supporting our brands in their long-term development, further boosting their ability to create value. This has earned us extraordinary success over the years, helping the group become a pre-eminent player in today’s yachting sector.

Going Global

Ferretti Group always endeavours to be close to the market and to our customers, doing whatever it takes to deliver exceptional performance. We have built up an agile, resourceful international dealer network, supported by high-end marketing initiatives to enhance our brands’ worldwide visibility and profile.

In 1989, a drive towards improved synergies in advanced technology led to the establishment of the Engineering Department, a specialist research centre tasked with researching new materials and designing new standard-series boats. Ferretti’s debut in the offshore-racing arena soon followed.
The newly expanded range and the sporting successes paved the way for the group’s internationalisation. Accordingly, Ferretti of America Inc. was founded in 1993 to sell motor yachts in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela and the Caribbean. Ferretti of America joined an existing network operating in Greece, France, Spain, Germany and Great Britain, helping to boost sales on the international market.
Between 1994 and 1997, the Ferretti team’s victories at the European Championship and the Class 1 World Offshore Championship (twice) enabled the company to transfer the results of the technological research originally intended for sporting competitions to the production line.

Acquisitions (1999-2012)
In 1994, Ferretti launched a global sales campaign by creating a strategic dealer network outside Europe.
In the late 1990s, as institutional investors acquired a share of the capital, the company looked to an external-expansion strategy through targeted acquisitions of boat builders specialising in top-of-the-range motor yachts.
In 1996, with the arrival of Custom Line, Ferretti began operating in the flybridge segment with 28- to 40-metre fibreglass yachts.
In 1998, CNA Srl (Cantieri Navali dell’Adriatico) joined the group, bringing the prestigious Pershing brand – specialist open motor yachts combining high performance with supreme comfort and design excellence.
In 1999, the group acquired CRN SpA, a specialist builder of 30-metre-plus maxi and mega-yachts in composite materials, with a steel hull and aluminium superstructure. In 2000, Ferretti acquired 100% of the share capital of Riva SpA, the world’s most famous and exclusive shipyard.
In May 2001, the parent company Ferretti SpA bought various assets from Oram shipyards of La Spezia, where Riva would set up its new production facilities.
In November that year, Ferretti Group finalized its acquisition of Mochi Craft Srl, based in Pesaro.
In 2002, the group took over Diesse Arredamenti, bringing in new skills in the nautical fittings and furnishings sector, to enhance its consolidated boat-building know-how. Later that year, in line with this strategy, the group also finalized its acquisitions of Cantiere Navale Mario Morini of Ancona (enabling CRN to expand its production capacity), Pinmar SL, a specialist yacht painter & refitter, and Zago SpA, a high-profile Italian manufacturer of wooden furniture pieces.
In 2004, the group acquired Cantieri Navali Itama, a prestigious company specialising in the construction of open motor yachts.
In 2008, Ferretti Group acquired the assets, brands and operations of Allied Marine, an American firm specialising in brokerage, after-sales services, and the sale of new and second-hand motor yachts.

Buoyant growth (2012–Today)
In 2012, SHIG–Weichai Group, one of the largest international industrial groups in the commercial-vehicles and construction-machinery sector, acquired a 75% holding in Ferretti Group. In the August, Tan Xuguang was elected President of Ferretti Group.
Alberto Galassi, Ferretti Group CEO, led the new management team towards new objectives. The focus was on research & development and product innovation while taking the group’s yachts into new markets, as ambassadors of Italian technology and style.
This was a time of major investment in products, processes, communication and events.
Ferretti Group grew at an astonishing rate, performing well above the industry average.
February 2016 saw the establishment of FSD (Ferretti Security Division). The division specializes in the design, development and production of a new range of state-of-the-art naval platforms with state of the art specifications and mission profiles tailored to the requirements for the security, patrol, search & rescue in international and territorial waters and coastlines.
The first Fast Patrol Vessel by Ferretti Security Division, the FSD195, is a high-performance 20-metre vessel capable of speeds in excess of 55 knots, with a range of over 500 miles and both RINA FPV and CE approvals.
The results so far have satisfied shareholders to such an extent that the group has received an additional share capital increase from Weichai Group.
Thanks to some major research and development investments, 27 new models have been launched since 2015.

Our facilities have the latest-generation production systems and high-tech equipment, and most build yachts for more than one brand. They are located in Forlì, Cattolica, Ancona, Mondolfo, Sarnico and La Spezia.

Forlì
The Forlì site spans 14,000 square metres and produces boats for the Ferretti Yachts, Itama and Wally brands. It is also home to the group headquarters.

Cattolica
The Cattolica production site opened in 2001, covering a total area of about 14,000 m2, including 9,000 m2 of indoor facilities and 16 assembly stations. The yard was designed to meet the most advanced efficiency criteria and has the capacity to build up to sixteen 20- to 30-metre motor yachts at a time. The production layout was inspired by an island construction model, where each workstation is completely independent. Once a boat is complete, she can then be moved out through a convenient access point at the front without disrupting the other stations. The unit’s proximity to the sea also facilitates testing and sea trials. And as the goods-inward department is on site, all the incoming materials can be thoroughly checked.

Mondolfo
The Mondolfo site is a futuristic space of about 53,000 m2, with over 17,000 m2 of indoor facilities, and is much more than just a production line. It is a setting that creates beauty and functionality, technology and dreams, a place designed to add value to the ongoing development of Ferretti Group’s expanding product portfolio of increasingly large yachts. The site has its own innovative 500 m2 painting cab where the vessels are powder coated. The testing pool is used for all the sealing tests and water tests (of engines, exhausts, bilges and generators). The travel-lift, with a load-bearing capacity of 130 tons, completes operations with beaching and launching into the test pool.

Ancona
The nautical hub at Ancona spans an area of nearly 80,000 m2, with about 25,000 m2 of indoor facilities, and can construct pleasure craft up to 90 metres long. This multi-brand centre is home to the entire CRN fleet, Custom Line models as well as the new Pershing and Riva Superyachts Division. Outside, the Adriatic opens out in front of the yard; a unique location and a real asset to the site, the waterfront is effectively a small private tourist harbour.

The 250-metre-wide marina features three jetties – 40 ,100 and 100 metres long, respectively – which are used to fit out and finish yachts and maxi yachts. The shipyard has a 120-metre slipway for launching mega-yachts over 43 metres. To launch composite maxi yachts up to 40 metres and 220 tons in size, the shipyard has a travel-lift that is also used to haul up boats that need testing. The hub has three spacious modern work sheds (90 metres long, 28 metres wide and 25 metres high) with two high-tech facilities complete with extraction equipment, compressed air, and centralised technical gas, heating and electrical plants, as well as two bridge cranes for handling materials on board. The indoor facilities include 6 work sheds for steel and aluminium vessels and 2 for building maxi and mega-yachts in composite materials.

Sarnico
Created in 1842 on the Bergamo side of Lake Iseo deep in the Franciacorta area, the Sarnico site is Riva’s beating historical heart. This is where the classic Riva models were created. It is currently the construction site for 8- to 20-metre vessels.

The shipyard centres on Carlo Riva’s office; he designed it himself with a view not only to its interior and exterior design but also to its functionality. Known as La Plancia (the bridge), the office stands in the centre of the work shed, with a 40-metre-wide arch supported on two pillars that also carry two bridge cranes, each capable of lifting craft weighing over 20 tons. With its bold, futuristic design, which can also be seen from the other side of the lake along with the whole shipyard, the office is a listed building protected by the Italian Department of Cultural Heritage. The shipyard extends over an area of approximately 36,000 m2, about 17,000 m2 of them indoors. It has 10 moorings, 2 jib cranes, 4 painting cabs and a 50-ton trolley for transporting the finished yachts to the jetty and for all internal handling of hulls or bulky items.

La Spezia
The La Spezia production site came into operation in 2004 and is particularly important from a strategic and industrial as well as a social and environmental perspective. It is a key strategic site for the Ferretti Group because of the technical, logistical and commercial support it provides in the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas. Designed using the very latest construction techniques for both the production and commercial facilities, the yard covers a total area of 60,000+ m2, with 12,000 m2 of indoor facilities. These include industrial work sheds and office buildings as well as piers and jetties extending for a total length of about 400 metres, serviced by a 400-ton wheeled travel-lift.

This vision of customer service has prompted us to establish a Service University – a school providing professional-training and refresher courses for aftersales-service professionals. The wide range of training opportunities is updated every year with new content covering a spectrum of skillsets, including managerial, technical, commercial, operational and customer-satisfaction skills.

Today, through its ability to meet the growing professional-development needs of the various businesses involved, as the constantly rising demand shows, the Service University is a key professional-training provider for all the Ferretti Group Dealers and Service Points.

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