Groupe Doux
| Groupe Doux SA | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Société Anonyme |
| founding | 1955 |
| Seat |
Chateaulin , France
|
| management | Pierre Jean Doux, Charles Doux |
| Number of employees | 2,300 (2017) |
| sales | € 517 million (2015) |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.doux.com |
Doux SA is a French group of companies in the meat industry with headquarters in Châteaulin ( Finistère department , Brittany ).
It is the largest producer and processor of poultry meat in Europe and one of the five largest exporters of poultry and poultry products in the world. The company is led by Pierre Jean Doux and Charles Doux, with Guy Odri as CEO .
Products
The Doux Group produces fully integrated, which means that the entire value chain is controlled by the group , from hatching the eggs to poultry rearing and animal feed production, slaughtering and processing to marketing . Mainly chicken and turkey are processed , but also wild fowl, especially guinea fowl . The Doux range includes the full range of fresh or frozen poultry products: whole pieces, portioned pieces and refined, i.e. processed poultry products (breaded, as nuggets, ready-made meals, marinated fillets, snacks, cooked poultry meat). Doux's main brands are Père Dodu , Doux , LeBon , AlSabia and Coeur de Bretagne , in Germany also Guts-Gold .
Key figures
The group has around twenty production sites in France and Brazil and in 2017 employed a total of 2,300 people. In France alone, over 5,000 additional jobs are indirectly dependent on the Doux Group. Together around 4,300 contract fatteners in Europe and Brazil deliver to Doux. Most of the production facilities are located in the French region of Ouest .
In 2008, over 1 million tons of poultry meat were produced and marketed, of which 38% whole chicken, 16% chicken portioned, 11% turkey, 16% processed products. Sales in 2008 amounted to EUR 1.719 million (+13.3% compared to 2007). A third of this was generated in France and 836 million euros (+ 41.5% compared to 2007) in the export business. It is exported to around 130 countries worldwide. The majority of exports (480 million euros, corresponding to 28% of total sales) went to the Middle East in 2008 . Doux is the leading exporter to these countries: In Saudi Arabia , Doux had a market share of 45% in 2008 with a rapidly increasing trend, in the United Arab Emirates 50%, in Oman 23% and Qatar 18%. Far behind are the markets of Russia (EUR 121 million in sales) and America (EUR 76 million excluding the Brazilian market). In Brazil, sales of EUR 107 million were achieved in 2008.
history
The company's founder, Pierre Doux, started a poultry trade in Nantes in 1933 . In 1955 he founded his own slaughterhouse in Port-Launay (Finistère, Bretagne). In the 1970s, Doux rose to become one of the world's largest traders in frozen poultry meat. With continued strong growth, the company entered the market in other countries around 1990, including Germany and Spain. Various competitors (including the Père Dodu brand ) were taken over, in 1998 a producer in Brazil with Frangosul . From the turn of the millennium one turned to the development of further export markets in Eastern Europe and Russia. After economic problems in the years 2006-2008, due to the temporary export ban on French poultry due to infections in the course of the spread of the avian flu H5N1 (2006), a price explosion for raw materials (2007) and the global financial crisis (from 2007), sales rose, especially in the export business. The poorly doing business in Spain and the unprofitable duck meat business in France were sold in 2008 and two production sites in France were closed.
For the period October 2007 to October 2008, Doux in France received a subsidy from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union in the amount of over 62.8 million euros. 80% of the shareholders of Doux SA were the Doux family and 20% the bank BNP Paribas .
At the beginning of June 2012, Doux filed for bankruptcy. In 2013, the investor Didier Calmels took over the majority of the company through his holding company D&P Participations and carried out a restructuring. Two years later he saw the renovation as complete and reduced his stake.
Doux in Germany
The German branch of Doux, Doux Geflügel GmbH , has its legal seat in Kleinmachnow (Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg) and its administration and sales location in Europarc Dreilinden in Berlin. In Grimmen (district of Vorpommern-Rügen), a slaughterhouse and packing plant for frozen chicken was built in 1998 with more than 5 million euros in funding (Guts-Gold Nord Geflügel GmbH, veterinary number : MV-ESG 101), in which around 100 Employees were busy. Doux owns a hatchery in Triwalk near Wismar . Doux's sales in Germany in 2006 amounted to EUR 81 million.
Doux Geflügel GmbH received around 4.7 million euros in subsidies from GAP funds from the EU between October 2007 and October 2008, making it the sixth largest recipient of EU agricultural subsidies in Germany and the largest recipient of subsidies in Eastern Germany.
Competitors
- The world's largest poultry producer is Brasil Foods , created in 2009 from the merger of the two Brazilian companies Perdigão and Sadia .
- Doux's biggest competitor in France is the LDC Groupe (Lambert-Dodart-Chancereul), which is the market leader in the country.
Web links
- Doux website (French, English, Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The Doux Group: Activites. ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at: corporate.doux.com , accessed November 3, 2017
- ^ Michael Kläsgen: EU subsidies - rattled into bankruptcy with state aid. Süddeutsche.de, June 10, 2012, accessed on July 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Two million chickens are threatened with starvation. RP Online, June 14, 2012, accessed July 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Keren Lentschner: chickens Doux: Didier Calmels part avec le "du sentiment travail accompli". www.lefigaro.fr, 19 May 2015, accessed on 27 October 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.wer-zu-wem.de/firma/Doux-Gefluegel.html
- ^ Message from Nordkurier ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
