Clement Faugier
Clément Faugier is a company of food products derived from the Châtaigne (or maroon), founded in 1882. Its mascot is the character Marono, created in 1938, whose bodies and arms are bugs of Châtaigne S and whose legs are sheets of chestnut.
Clement Faugier (1861 - 1941), engineer of the Bridges and Chaussées create his first factory of maroon production of frozen with Privas in Ardèche, basin of disaster victim employment by many factory shutdowns in the field Textile and great production zone of chataîgnes.
In 1885, it with the idea to recover chestnuts broken accidentally to create the new product which will make its fame: The Chestnut puree , which mixes the cracks of chestnuts, the chestnut pulp, syrup of confisage, of sugar and the Vanille, according to a receipt remained identical since, without dyes or conservatives. The mark Chestnut puree of Ardeche is officially deposited only forty years later, in 1924.
In addition to 120 years, the mark Clément Faugier developed many derivative products of the chestnut (candies, crystallized chestnuts in alcohol, chestnuts with the naturalness, flour…) and some others (fruit jams). The company, which has two factories, employs a hundred permanent employees - manpower which doubles seasonal workers of September to January. Its annual turnover is of approximately 20 million euros, of which 15% are carried out with export.
The mark Clément Faugier is a symbol of success for Ardeche, but also an example of independence in the field of the Agro-alimentaire: in spite of its notoriety, the company was repurchased by no great industry group and is even parvenu to resist the blackmail of the Marge postpones set up by large distribution: the public did not indeed accept any Ersatz and obtained the return of famous limp in Tinplate with the Graphisme 1900. Clément Faugier however yields licenses to other companies like Nestlé (for the desserts MaronSui' S , created in 1965) or the company Lyonnaise Birdy Nam Nam for the Glace S with the chestnut puree (since 2003).
External bond
- www.clementfaugier.fr
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