Ferretti Group, o­ne of the leading companies in the world within the sphere of designing and building luxury motoryachts and sporting boats, is at Boot 2008 with an incredible fleet of 12 motoryachts, 4 of which new models displayed to the German market for the very first time.

The Group is in Düsseldorf with a prestigious stand set out o­n two levels, and a surface area of over 2,000 square metres, featuring a smart architectural style, strongly characterised by natural materials and large, open spaces.

Ferretti Group is displaying the following yachts in Düsseldorf, the most important appointment for the nautical market in the Central-Northern European area:

FERRETTI YACHTS: Ferretti 550, Ferretti 630

PERSHING: Pershing 72’ (preview for the German market), Pershing 56’

ITAMA: Itama Forty, Itama Fiftyfive

RIVA: Sportriva 56’ (preview for the German market), 63’ Vertigo, Aquariva 33’

APREAMARE: Maestro 51’ (preview for the German market)

MOCHI CRAFT: Dolphin 54’ (preview for the German market), Dolphin 44’

Besides the 12 highly prestigious, luxurious yachts displayed at our stand, visitors will be able to admire many scaled models of the Bertram and Custom Line brands, and a corner dedicated to CRN megayachts.

From the industrial point of view, the results Ferretti Group achieved at the first few Boat Shows of the 2007/2008 season - Cannes, Monte Carlo, Genoa and Fort Lauderdale – must be underlined, both in terms of the number of highly impressed visitors, and the orders placed. This confirms Ferretti Group’s leading position o­n both European and international nautical markets.

From the economic point of view, the 2006/2007 nautical year o­nce again confirmed Ferretti Group’s excellent trend in the pleasure boating sector, fruit of the painstaking attention it pays to detail, and the huge investments which have always been made in R&D and studying new technological and design solutions.

The closing results of the nautical year registered by Ferretti Group o­n 31st August 2007 showed a 933 million Euro Value of Production, a + 21% increase compared with the 770 million Euros registered the previous year, and an EBITDA of 158 million Euros, a + 34% increase compared with the 118 million registered o­n 31st August 2006. Ferretti Group, with over 3,000 employees and 22 production units in Italy and the USA, is currently present in 95 countries, thanks to three representative branches situated in Europe, the USA and Asia. It also boasts an international

network of dealers, formed over 85 carefully-selected distributors, which guarantees the Group’s clients the very best assistance in marinas all over the world.