Company Description

Sunseeker International is a British luxury motor yacht manufacturer. Its headquarters and main assembly facility is in Poole Harbour, at Poole in Dorset, England. The company has been making motor boats since 1969.[2] Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has owned the company since 2013.[3] It is the largest UK-based luxury yachtmaker measured by 2012 revenu 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,[5] 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.[6] In 2006 Robert Braithwaite led a £44 million MBO of the company, backed by Bank of Scotland.[7]