REDUCING PLASTIC WASTE IN THE LABORATORY
Extremely fond of his home region, Patrick and his wife Nathalie opened their first boutique along the shores of Lake Annecy in 2004, and then a second in 2012 in his childhood home of La Clusaz. He joined Relais Desserts in 2011. For Patrick, who grew up in a rural area, protecting and caring for […]
LA MAISON BELLANGER IS COMMITTED TO A RESPONSIBLE PURCHASING APPROACH.
Today La Maison is under the directorship of Vianney Bellanger who has enthusiastically and passionately taken over the family business, enriching it with a shop in Tours (2014), a 3rd shop in Le Mans (2018) and then in Laval (2023). In 2018, Vianney Bellanger set himself the objective of making 90% of his purchases within 200km of Le Mans […]
LAURENT LE DANIEL SHOWS INNOVATION WITH A GOURMET AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY BOX OF CHOCOLATES.
Based in Rennes since 1998, his company has grown from 1 to 5 shops and now has 60 employees. Keen on environmental matters, he had been looking for a way to reduce the use of plastic in his packaging, and in particular the interior elements of the chocolate boxes. When working on this problem he […]
CHRISTOPHE ROUSSEL, MAKING SMALL STRIDES TOWARDS ZERO WASTE
A proud member of Relais Desserts since 2006, the Croqueurs de Chocolat Club (aka “Chocolate Lovers Club”) considers him to be one of the 20 chocolate makers everyone should know. At Christophe and Julie Roussel’s, generating as little waste as possible has become a state of mind; they understand that the world’s resources are finite, […]
AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT TO MANAGE UNSOLD ITEMS.
They both decided, from the start of their entrepreneurial adventure, that they would work with the raw materials and use their skills to turn them into something exceptional. They understand the real value of an apple, a pound of butter or a pound of flour, and are happy to pay a fair price for top […]
ÉRIC VERGNE PROUD TO USE 100% LOCALLY-PRODUCED MILK
Éric, along with his wife, took over the family business in 2000. Today the two of them manage a team of more than thirty people, three boutiques (Audincourt, Belfort, and Montbéliard), and a new laboratory. Fond of local products and their home region’s heritage, Éric works hard to promote the Montbéliarde breed of cows and […]
SMALL STEPS TOWARD PLASTIC-FREE PACKAGING
Maison Guerlais is now a business with 95 employees spread across production, shops and administrative services, all united by a single desire: to offer you original products of ever higher quality, to surprise you and delight your tastebuds with every mouthful! The abundant creativity of Vincent Guerlais, the “tastebud agitator”, does not stop at devising […]
FRÉDÉRIC CASSEL, A PASSION FOR RED BERRIES
Today, the couple manages three boutiques in France, as well as other boutiques in Tokyo, Berlin, Tunis, and Casablanca. Frédéric Cassel, who was president of Relais Desserts for 15 years and who led the French national team to victory at the 2013 Pastry World Cup, continues to look to Mother Nature and the forest for […]
