** Shares in French leisure vehicles and equipment company Trigano TRIA.PA fall 11% as it reports a 16.5% drop in its sales for the first half of its fiscal year
** It publishes H1 sales of 1.68 billion euros ($1.81 billion), compared with 1.91 billion euros a year ago
** The company has been impacted by a contraction in motor home sales and a further decline in the caravan market, analysts from Midcap Partners say
** The company underlines a decline in investments by campsite managers in France due to a less favourable 2024
season than expected in several French regions which led to a decline in mobile homes deliveries
** "Given the highly seasonal nature of this business, a significant change in sales momentum is not expected until the start of the next financial year", Trigano adds
** Shares in Trigano are on track for their worst day since March 12, 2020, if losses hold
($1 = 0.9289 euros)
(Reporting by Mathias de Rozario in Gdansk)
((mathias.derozario@thomsonreuters.com;))