The swimming pool: big winner of the confinement effect
For more than two months, the French had the opportunity to rediscover their habitat and even improve it by embarking on large or small projects. The exteriors, which you were lucky enough to enjoy if you are a homeowner, have not been overlooked. For more comfort and renewed pleasure, the swimming pool is essential for many of you. Having this bubble of well-being at home allows you to bring a certain sweetness to your home.
Many having chosen to ignore the holidays, they preferred the installation of a swimming pool. Enough to transform your garden into a real place dedicated to relaxation and water games, just like what you are looking for during your holidays. The number of requests for quotes has exploded by 50%, an increase never recorded, this is what the Guide-pygiène.fr platform notes. Unlike certain sectors strongly affected by exceptional sanitary conditions, swimming pool specialists have had to cope with exponential demand.
The delay in activity in March and April was largely compensated for in May and June. At the end of June, the increase in the number of swimming pools sold amounted to 5.5% and the increase in turnover to 1.1%, according to Gilles Mouchiroud, President of the FPP. An increase that will have the effect of boosting the job market in this sector. He also regrets the lack of employees trained in the installation of swimming pools. There are only a hundred young people who graduate each year from the Professional Brevet of Swimming Pool Trades. The training is provided by 9 training centers in France.
Faced with this observation, the number 1 in the underground swimming pool, Desjoyaux swimming pools, plans to open a training school of 50 to 100 apprentices for the 168 dealers of the group.
A sector already in full development
The health crisis has amplified a development that had already started in 2019, and the mild, increasingly sunny and hot weather is not for nothing. The progression of last year is proof of this with + 6% in sales and + 11% in turnover compared to 2018. 2020 will be the 5e consecutive year of increase in this sector. By the end of the year, France should flirt with the 3 million swimming pools.
The end of the season was rather engaging thanks in particular to the very mild temperatures in September. From the month of April, professionals felt the thrill to be announced with an increase in visits to their Internet sites. The projects were then refined, sometimes in video, before moving on to the face-to-face meeting and the controls.