Guy Cotten
Guy Cotten is a French business man, born on October 14th, 1936 with Saint-Yvi (Finistere). It created in 1969 with Concarneau, the Établissements Guy Cotten .
In 1964, it decides to sell fishing wears on the port of Concarneau, and with launching its own workshop for the clothes industry of waxed lighter and resistant, out of nylon coats rather than traditional cotton. It conceives in 1966 the Rosbras , jacket with zipper and double velcro, which becomes the reference of the mark. The company which employs ten people grows, benefitting from the development of the schools of veil, and opens a new workshop with Trégunc.
In 1974, Alain Quernec draws the small yellow catch which becomes the logo emblematic of the mark, which associates in 1981 the slogan the shelter of the sailor .
In 1988, the company repurchases Piel with Pirelli, specialized in the material of survival. It spends four years to conceive the TPS ( Thermal Protective Survival ) combination of flexible, light and insulating survival, which saves death Raphaël Dinelli and Thierry Dubois, at the time of the Vendée Globe 1996.
In 2003, Nadine Bertholom, girl of the founder, take the management of the firm.
In 2006, the company was preceded with the Nautical trade fair of Paris for its Magic hood, according to the movements of the head.
The company is an important partner of the world of the veil, sponsor of the navigators Gilles Gahinet, Florence Arthaud and Jean Le Cam, and partner of the National crew.
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