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Industry
  
Chocolate

Headquarters
  
France

Website
  
cemoi.fr

Founded
  
1814


Subsidiaries
  
Chocolaterie Bouquet D'Or S.A., Phoscao S.A.

Profiles

C moi a french style passion for chocolate


Cémoi is a French chocolate manufacturer founded by Jules Pares in 1814 in Arles-sur-Tech, France. Cémoi is the biggest French chocolate manufacturer and the 26th in the world.

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The Cémoi group owns 15 factories and 4 warehouses around the world.

The origins

In 1814, Jules Pares founded one of the first French chocolate factory in Arles-sur-Tech, which eventually became Cémoi.

Development and diversification

In 1962 the businessman Georges Poirrier bought the society and changed its name to Cantalou. During the Trente glorieuses and with the development of the consumer society, the group changed its business model to produce mainly chocolate bars for supermakets. It started to buy its competitors: Frankonia in 1977, Phoscao in 1979, Aiguebelle and Cémoi, whose name it took, in 1981.

Factory and warehouses

The Cémoi group owns 15 factories around the world:

  • 9 factories in France
  • 1 factory in Germany
  • 1 factory in Wales
  • 1 factory in Poland
  • 1 factory in Ivory Coast
  • It also owns 4 warehouses:

  • 3 warehouses in France
  • 1 warehouse in Spain
  • Cémoi Cocoa

    Cémoi Cocoa comes from the following countries:

  • Ivory Coast
  • Ecuador
  • São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Vanuatu
  • References

    Cémoi Wikipedia