Groupe Doux

Doux S. A. is a French group of the meat industry with headquarters in Châteaulin ( Département Finistère, Brittany ).

It is the largest producer and processor of poultry meat in Europe and one of the world's five largest exporters of poultry and poultry products. The company is headed by Jean Pierre Doux Doux and Charles, CEO is Guy Odri. Beginning of June 2012 the company announced bankruptcy.

Products

The Doux Group manufactures fully integrated, that is, from the hatching of the eggs of the poultry breeding and animal feed production, slaughter and processing to marketing the entire value chain is controlled by the Group. Are processed mainly chicken and turkey, as well as game birds, especially fowl. The range of Doux covers the whole range of fresh or frozen poultry products: whole pieces, portioned pieces and refined, so further processed poultry products ( breaded, as nuggets, ready meals, marinated fillets, snacks, cooked poultry meat). Key brands of Doux are Père Doduo, Doux, LeBon, AlSabia and Coeur de Bretagne, in Germany also Guts- Gold.

Indicators

The group has about twenty production sites in France and Brazil, and employed a total of 12,300 employees in 2008, including over 4,500 in France and 7,600 in Brazil. In France alone, more than 30,000 jobs are indirectly dependent on the Doux Group. Together, 4,300 contract fattening in Europe and Brazil at Doux. Most production facilities are located in the French region of Ouest.

2008 about 1 million tonnes of poultry meat were produced and marketed, in portions of which 38 % chicken piece as a whole, 16 % chicken, 11 % turkey, 16 % refined products. Revenues amounted in 2008 to 1.719 million euros ( 13.3 % compared to 2007). Of these, one third in France were generated and 836 million euros ( 41.5 % compared to 2007) in the export business. Exports will be in around 130 countries worldwide. The majority of exports ( 480 million euros, corresponding to 28 % of total revenue) in 2008 went to the Middle East. Doux is the leading exporter to these countries: Saudi Arabia Doux 2008 had a market share of 45% with a strong upward trend in the United Arab Emirates, 50 %, 23% in Oman and Qatar 18%. By far the markets followed by Russia (121 million euros turnover ) and America ( 76 million euros without the Brazilian market ). In Brazil, in 2008 a turnover of 107 million euros was achieved.

History

The company's founder Pierre Doux began in 1933 in Nantes with a poultry trade. In 1955 he founded his own slaughterhouse in Port -Launay ( Département Finistère, Brittany ). In the 1970s Doux rose to become one of the largest distributors of frozen poultry meat. For further strong growth was around 1990 to enter the market in other countries, including Germany and Spain. Diverse competitors (including the Père Dodu brand ) respectively, in 1998 Frangosul a producer in Brazil. From the turn of the millennium the development of other export markets in Eastern Europe and Russia they turned to. According to 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 avian influenza H5N1 (2006 ), a price explosion with the raw material (2007) and the world financial crisis ( starting in 2007 ), sales rose, especially in the export business, again rapidly. The poor performance business branch in Spain and the unprofitable become business with duck meat in France were sold in 2008, two production sites in France closed.

For the period from October 2007 to October 2008 Doux was in France a subsidy funds from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP ) of the European Union in the amount of 62.8 million euros. Shareholders of Doux SA are 80% the family Doux and 20%, the bank BNP Paribas.

Doux in Germany

The German branch of Doux, the Doux Poultry GmbH, has the legal domicile in Kleinmachnow (Landkreis Potsdam- agent Mark Brandenburg ) and its administrative and sales office in Europarc Drei Linden in Berlin. In Pomerania (district of Vorpommern - Rügen) was built in 1998 with over 5 million euros of funding butchery and Abpackerei for frozen chicken ( Guts- Gold North poultry GmbH, veterinary Number: MV - ESG 101), in the following strong workforce reduction of 2008, around 100 still people were employed. In Bad Little - mustards ( Northwest Mecklenburg County ) the Guts- Gold Mischfutterwerk belongs to Doux and Triwalk at Wismar a hatchery. Sales of Doux in Germany in 2006 amounted to 81 million euros.

The Doux Poultry GmbH received in the period from October 2007 to October 2008 about 4.7 million euros from CAP subsidies by EU, making it the sixth largest recipient of EU agricultural subsidies in Germany and the largest subsidy recipients in East Germany.

Competitors

• The world 's largest poultry meat producer is Brasil Foods, were taken in 2009 from the merger of two Brazilian companies Perdigão and Sadia.
• The main competitor of Doux in France with a turnover of 1.6 billion euros, the LDC group ( Lambert Dodart - Chancereul ), which is the market leader in the country.