Yves Rocher is a French industrialist of the cosmetic born the April 7th 1930 with Gacilly.
At died on his father, 14 years, it decides to help his mother in the exploitation of a family small shop of articles Textile S. an old woman healer will entrust the receipt of one pomade to him to the hemostatic ficaire: Yves Rocher decides artisanalement to manufacture it in the family Grenier and to sell it directly to the users.
Natural products and Mail-order selling will constitute the pillars of the company of products Cosmétiques which it founds in 1959.
Gacilly, its native village, is today a prosperous chief town of canton whose Yves Rocher is the mayor since 1962. Impassioned by the political life and economic of Brittany, he becomes general adviser in 1982 and regional adviser in 1992. Its name present on all the continents, it is without any doubt one of the most known Bretons to the international plan. In 1977, the monthly magazine armor magazine indicates it Breton year. It is the first of a long list.
It is decorated with the Ordre of Hermine.
In April 2007, it is promoted Commandeur of the Légion of honor, after being appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1992.
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