Cayatte-Bresson
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| Société anonyme | |
| Traded as | BdD: CB BKB: CB |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 8 January 1912 |
| Founder | André Cayatte-Bresson |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 77 dealerships |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Éric Cayatte-Bresson, CEO |
Production output | 2,984 vehicles (2015) |
| Revenue |  ₳324 million (2017) |
| ₳11 million (2017) | |
| Total equity | ₳2.2 billion (2017) |
Number of employees | 1,124 (2016) |
Cayatte-Bresson Auto Mécaniques S.A. is an Vaillais transport company specializing in high-performance luxury sports cars and luxury automotive interior design. The company is known for its luxurious, distinctive and well-received vehicle designs and, in recent years, for their performance; the world's fastest production cars have been Cayatte-Bressons since 1989. The company's headquarters, production facilities and test track are located just outside Barré-Karrigan. André Cayatte-Bresson, a Vaillais naval engineer with extensive experience as an automotive hobbyist, founded the company in 1915 as a custom car manufacturer. The arrival of industrialist Jacques Barneau saw the company transform from a small family luxury automotive shop to a full-blown luxury car marque with the launch of the Cayatte-Bresson Rapide.
Cayatte-Bresson rose to international prominence after its cars won the Erisian Grand Prix in 1923, 1924, 1930, and 1939, and quickly became a symbol of Vaillais culture. Following André's death in 1951, his son Gaspard took control of the company. Under Gaspard, Cayatte-Bresson greatly expanded its research and development, and briefly produced airplanes.
Cayatte-Bresson currently produces the Frégate, the Colibri, and the Étendard.
History
The company was founded by André Cayatte-Bresson, a TKTK-trained naval architect who had assisted in the design of many of Vailleux's pre-Dreadnought battleships, before retiring from the Vaillais Navy in 1895 and joining the Porte-Calme Lines company as a designer. Born to a wealthy family, he first encountered auto racing in 1906 when the course of the inaugural Barré-Karrigan Grand Prix ran by his family estate outside Barré-Karrigan; according to his autobiography, he was instantly smitten. Upon his retirement from the Porte-Calme Lines in 1908, he began building cars in a workshop on his family's estate.
In 1910, Cayatte-Bresson purchased a small factory in Barré-Karrigan and there founded the company that bears his name to produce his cars.