Entremont Alliance
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| legal form | SAS |
| founding | 2005 |
| Seat | Annecy |
| management | Christian Mazuray (President) |
| Branch | Food |
Entremont Alliance is a French , globally active group of companies of the dairy industry . The group mainly produces various types of cheese , but also other industrial dairy products such as milk powder and milk serum ( whey , from which the protein was extracted, is mainly used as animal feed and raw material for baby milk ).
Brands
The company's own brands are Entremont , Meule d'or and Juragruyère, as well as the industrial milk powder brand Sicalac . The cheese umbrella brand Entremont is one of the best-known cheese brands in France (brand awareness 90%). Under this brand are raw milk - hard cheeses such as Emmentaler , Beaufort (from the region Savoy ) or Comté (an AOC cheese from the region of Franche-Comté ) and raclette offered cheese. Other types of cheese are Gruyère , Morbier , Raclette, Tartiflette / Reblochon and fondue cheeses . With the Comté, Entremont Alliance has a volume market share of around 26 percent in France, making it the market leader. The Comté is not produced industrially by Entremont, but by suppliers, the so-called " Fruitières " (artisanal house dairies), and then stored in the company's aging cellars.
Structure and key figures
The Entremont Alliance group is headquartered in Annecy in the Haute-Savoie department in eastern France . It was created in 2005 from the merger of the Alliance d'Unicopa (a Breton dairy cooperative , founded in 1960) and Entremont (originally mainly a producer of French Emmentaler, founded in 1948).
Subsidiaries and holdings
The Entremont Alliance production facilities are mainly located in France, as well as in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy.
French subsidiaries are:
- Euroserum : founded in 1973, the world's largest manufacturer of demineralized milk serum, a raw material for the production of baby milk
- Cofranlait : founded in 1983, produces, among other things, organic dairy products
- Beuralia : the largest industrial butter producer in France; a joint venture between Entremont Alliance and Sodiaal
The German subsidiary of the Entremont Alliance is Stegmann Emmentaler Käsereien GmbH in Kempten (Allgäu) , the market leader in Germany in the production and sale of Emmentaler and hard cheese specialties in the premium segment.
Ownership
Until 2010, the Entremont Alliance shareholders were through the intermediate holding UNIFEM:
- Compagnie Nationale à Portefeuille ( Groupe CNP ; this is controlled by the Groupe de Charleroi of the Belgian financial investor Baron Albert Frère ): 63.5%
- Groupe UNICOPA : 36.5%
At the beginning of 2011, Entremont Alliance was completely taken over by the Sodiaal cooperative .
Key figures
The Entremont Alliance group of companies has an annual turnover of around 1.7 billion euros and employs around 4,100 people. It processes around 2.2 billion liters of milk annually and uses it to produce around 195,000 tons of cheese as well as around 315,000 tons of butter, milk powder, drinking milk and milk serum.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entremont goes entirely to Sodiaal . Lebensmittel Zeitung, March 5, 2010