Gervais (company)
| Gervais | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Société Anonyme |
| founding | 1852 |
| resolution | 1973 |
| Reason for dissolution | fusion |
| Seat |
Paris , France
|
| Branch | food |
Gervais was a French food company of the dairy industry , with production sites in Normandy , which existed from 1852 to 1973.
Company history
The company was founded in 1852 by Charles Gervais (1826–1893) as "Fromagerie Ch. Gervais" in Ferrières-en-Bray . In the 1870s he began marketing the cream cheese products Petit-suisse and Carrés Gervais , which soon became known nationwide. After Gervais' death, his sons Jules (1851–1933) and Paul († 1914) took over management of the company. At the turn of the century, the company had around 200 employees working in the two factories in Gournay-en-Bray . In 1911 it was converted into a stock corporation. In 1917 a factory was built in Neufchâtel-en-Bray , followed by the construction of another production site in Le Molay-Littry . In 1933 the company started producing ice cream ; in particular the product brand "Esquimau" was an economic success.
Gervais was a holding company from 1947 and now also controlled Laitière Gallia, a producer of baby food based in Longueville-sur-Scie . Gervais himself was based in Paris, but had no production site there. In 1967 it merged with the Spanish food company Danone to form the Gervais-Danone Group, which in turn merged with the glass manufacturer Boussois-Souchon-Neuvesel (BSN) to form the BSN-Gervais Danone Group in 1973 and is now called Danone. Gervais remained a dairy brand for a while.
In 2013, Hochland SE took over the Gervais brand name and has been selling herbal quark and cottage cheese under this name since then.
literature
- Jean-Pierre Chaline, Anne-Marie Sohn: Dictionnaire des parlementaires de Haute-Normandie sous la Troisième République 1871–1940. Publications de l'université de Rouen, Rouen 2000, pp. 149-152.
- François Vatin: L'industrie du lait. Essai d'histoire économique. Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris 1990, p. 156.
- François Vatin: Le Lait et la raison marchande. Essais de sociologie économique. Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 1996, p. 25.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hochland History - We have tradition. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .