EXEL Industries: sprayers and sugar beet harvesters
EXEL Industries profile: the family-owned French group behind Berthoud sprayers and Holmer beet harvesters, with EUR 983 million revenue in 2024/2025.
EXEL Industries is a family-owned French group making agricultural sprayers, sugar beet harvesters and industrial spraying equipment.
France · Family-owned, listed group
EXEL Industries is a French family-owned industrial group built around spraying technology. Its activities are organised into agricultural spraying, sugar beet harvesting, industry and leisure. On the farm side, Berthoud is one of its sprayer brands and Holmer makes sugar beet harvesting and loading machinery. Agricultural machinery therefore sits alongside industrial spraying solutions and leisure businesses outside farming.
On arable farms, a sprayer applies crop protection products evenly across the field. Important points when comparing machines are boom width, boom stability, section control, which switches off parts of the boom over ground already treated, and ease of cleaning. Sugar beet harvesters lift the beet from the soil, and loaders clean and load the crop from field heaps for transport. For beet machinery, soil conditions, capacity and collection logistics shape the choice, and local service support matters for both.
Size of the business
EXEL Industries had revenue of EUR 983 million in the 2024/2025 financial year. This total also includes its industrial and leisure businesses, not only agricultural machinery.
What does the company offer?
EXEL Industries offers agricultural sprayers, including Berthoud, Holmer beet harvesting and loading equipment, and industrial spraying solutions.
How should a buyer make contact?
EXEL Industries organises its business by country and business unit, and its website lists the local contacts for each market. Enquiries are handled most smoothly when they state the intended application, the scale of the project and the timing required.
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