Group Louis-Dreyfus

Group Louis Dreyfus

The Groupe Louis Dreyfus is a multinational group present in 53 countries rested by the family Louis Dreyfus at the end of the 19th century. It belongs to the club of the “Big 4” of the trade with Cargill, Glencore and Bunge. For historical reasons, the group is not quoted on the stock exchange and remains entirely held by the heirs to the founders. He announces a turnover close to 27 billion dollars in 2005, one of highest of France.

Its historical divisions include the Négoce of grains and the Maritime transport. In parallel, it develops in the sectors of the Télécommunications as a majority shareholder of the Group Neuf Cegetel, recently formed by its subsidiary company LDcom, operator with the considerable growth directed by Jacques Veyrat and Robert Louis-Dreyfus. Finally it positions recently on the renewable energies with the opening of the largest factory of Bioéthanol in the world in the state of the Indiana.

It is Louis Dreyfus, father of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, which gave its first name and its name to the group. Its posterity is influential in the business world, of the media, the civil society, arts and the policy. It was initially associated with his younger brother Joseph (Louis) Dreyfus, ship-owner, trader, banker of Victor-Emmanuel II, king d' Italie.

The Dreyfus family took part in the first round table of the daily newspaper Humanity in 1904. The Dreyfus family become Louis-Dreyfus by decree as a Council of State.

One finds among the young generation resulting from the patriarch Louis Dreyfus, the American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the businessman Robert Louis-Dreyfus (Léopold Dreyfus connects), the journalist Guillaume Klossa (Joseph Dreyfus connects).

Genealogy

Léopold (Louis) Dreyfus (1833 - 1915), founder of the group X Emilie Lang │ ├─> Louis Louis-Dreyfus (1867 - 1940), appointed Lozere, deputy manager of the group as from 1915 │ X Emma Lévi │ │ │ ├─> Jean Louis-Dreyfus, (1908 - 2003), deputy manager of the group as from 1940 │ │ X │ │ │ │ │ ├─> Robert Louis-Dreyfus (1946), in the group since 2000 │ ├─> Charles Louis-Dreyfus (1870 - 1929), deputy manager of the group as from 1915 │ X Sarah Hément │ │ │ ├─> Pierre Louis-Dreyfus (1908), deputy manager of the group as from 1940 │ │ X Dolorès Neubauer │ │ │ │ │ ├─> Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, (1932), Current chairman of the group │ │ │ X │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─> Julia Louis-Dreyfus, (1961) actress │ │ │ │ X Brad Hall │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─> Henry Hall │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ├─> Charles Hall

│ │ │ ├─> François Louis-Dreyfus (1909 - 1958), deputy manager of the group as from 1940 │ │

│ │ │ │ │ ├─> Marijuana Meyer delegated general director of the group │ │ │

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