The group
JEAN FLOC’H is a Brittany-based agri-food group with more than 50 years’ specialist experience in the pork processing industry. Its versatility and ability to innovate in the fresh, frozen and canned meats markets have secured the group an important place in the French and international pork sector.
About us
Jean FLOC’H was born in Brittany in 1938. He put all his vision and daring into founding an industrial group that has placed authenticity at the forefront of its concerns. Following Jean’s death in 2007, executive director Michel BOULAIRE took over the reins with the same pragmatic, human approach as the Group’s founder.
Nowadays, the JEAN FLOC’H Group has a turnover of more than 1 billion euros, 2,100 employees and 12 industrial sites, most of which are located in Brittany, a traditional stock-breeding region.
As a key stakeholder in the Breton agri-food industry, the Group uses all its expertise to deliver the taste and quality that its many different customers demand. JEAN FLOC’H’s various brands are renowned for their versatility and can be adapted to all the markets in which they are distributed, while always continuing to ensure a top-quality food experience.
In all our activities, we are committed to ensuring the outstanding quality that our consumers and industrial partners have come to expect and making our breeders and employees proud of their achievements.
With annual meat production of 250,000 tonnes, we account for 12% of the French pork sector.
We invest, innovate and train to make sure we live up to the requirements of French food standards, which are amongst the most stringent in the world.
Our vision
Our strategic vision is based on our commitment to what is good. Good food on diners’ plates thanks to high-quality prepared meats and products, good approaches to preserving the environment through our commitments to ecological responsibility, which are testified to by the concrete, measurable actions we have undertaken.
We are determined to deliver the tastes and flavours that customers demand
Delivering the tastes and flavours that customers demand: that is precisely what our job consists of, and we look afresh at the requirements it brings with it every day. We work together with our partners and teams in a spirit of trust and ethical business practice to market safe, healthy products that are suitable for everyday use.
We listen to what our customers
We listen to what our customers have to say and respond by providing them with solutions perfectly tailored to their needs at competitive prices. By bringing together research and development, marketing and outstanding industrial performance, we are able to meet their meat and prepared product specifications. We invest heavily in improving our production equipment and ensuring that it has the necessary capacity and availability. Today, our ultra-short production line is unparalleled in the industry.
Our teams work hard to
Our teams work hard to:
- improve the usage value for our customers
- improve the quality of our products and services
- extend or refresh the product range
- further develop our products in line with health and safety-related criteria
Our markets
Five certified centres of activity and expertise that respond to the challenges of modern food production: to provide consumers with healthy products of French origin and prepared in a way that respects environmental imperatives.
Mass distribution
The group is present through 4
- Jean Floc’h®
Meat, sausages and grilled products, cured meat. - Viandes Clermont®
Meat, delicatessen, processed products: ham, belly, smoked meat… - Quillard®
Regional ham “Jambon de Vendée”, delicatessen, sausages, cured meat, smoked meat, stuffed piglet, cruste paste… - Chambost®
Lyon cured meat
Catering
Hospitals, retirement homes, corporate restaurants, school restaurants…
All food service establishments are improving the nutritional quality of their proposals in response to public health challenges, of which food is an essential component.
Butcher, delicatessen and caterer
Food professionals choose to source their supplies from our Group. We share their desire to offer delicious, healthy meat.
Industry
We supply the major agri-food brands, which are justifiably demanding when it comes to sourcing. Our reactivity has enabled us to build long-term, trust-based partnerships.
International
The JEAN FLOC’H Group exports to Europe, Asia and Africa. French hygiene quality, our national reputation and our logistical skills introduced us to international markets where we have developed specific areas of expertise tailored to local customs and requirements.
Our story
A Breton success story
Founded at the initiative of forward-thinking Breton businessman Jean FLOC’H, the Group developed swiftly by setting up and acquiring twelve industrial sites, each of them with its own established local roots. The Group’s outstanding success in the French and international markets made it a leader in the agri-food sector.
1985
Acquisition of Clermont
Acquisition of Clermont®, Liffré (35), our first meat processing plant.
1989
Extension of the Locminé abattoir
By acquiring a meat processing plant for conversion into an industrial pork abattoir of 35,000 m² on a 12 ha site, JEAN FLOC’H asserted its ambition to become a major actor in the profession with a slaughtering capacity of 45,000 pigs/week.
1991
Canning plant created
With the launch of the canning plant, the first factory of the JEAN FLOC’H brand, the group marked its desire to move toward processed products and widened the scope of its services to customers. Immediate success followed, helped by the spirit of competition that drives JEAN FLOC’H teams.
1995
Creation of BERNARD processed meat plant, Barderff (56).
The choice of creating a new meat processing plant reflected a market expectation and preceded the decision to separate uncooked and cooked meats for greater health guarantees. The group increased its capacities (sausages, lardons and cured meats), but also food safety.
1998
Acquisition of Loudéac viandes (22) and Ster Goz (29).
This acquisition mades it possible to increase the slaughtering capacity of the group, but also gave an opening into the specific work of sow meat cutting and deboning, which corresponds to the request of many French and European manufacturers.
2000
Creation of cured meat plant, Baud (56).
2001
Creation of a deep-freezing plant in Guénin (56)
The major investment in a deep-freezing plant operating with the most efficient processes (IQF freezing with FlowFreeze and Gyrofreeze systems) supported by a capacity of 12,000 pallets, has opened up new scope for development.
2010
Acquisition of Quillard & fils company
The Quillard meat processing plant in Carquefou (44), brings together all our know-how and offers a large range of raw and cooked meats for all palates.
2015
Acquisition of CAP Solutions Culinaires
Renamed CAP Solutions Culinaires, this actor is performing on culinary solutions and coating & decoration products. This strategic development in intermediate foodstuffs aimed at the industrialists and at the catering is complementary with JEAN FLOC’H business sectors.
2019
Lyon dry cooked meat production
Acquisition of Chambost® at Tarare (69). A century old enterprise who produces dry cooked meat product.
Our industrial performance
The JEAN FLOC’H Group offers delicious prepared meats and products that can be used by everyone on an everyday basis. To make this possible, we are present throughout the entire region with five brands developed for the fresh, frozen, canned and culinary solutions segments.
By operating on an industrial scale while taking advantage of our traditional expertise, we have been able to excel in international markets.
The JEAN FLOC'H group in figures
In a highly competitive market in which size plays a vital role in securing long-term sales opportunities, the Group has been able to establish a position of choice for itself thanks to its versatility and state-of-the-art equipment.
Michel BOULAIRE CEO of the JEAN FLOC'H Group
3 state-of-the-art technologies
Fresh, frozen and canned meat markets: Whatever the form of processing involved, our production sites possess industrial equipment that meets all food quality and safety requirements.
Fresh products
Frozen products
Canned products
Our priorities
Remaining faithful to its values at all times, the JEAN FLOC’H group has always sought to combine rigour with excellence, an approach that is summed up by its motto: “Choose what is good”.
Our brands
Our sites
Pork operations, which lie at the heart of the JEAN FLOC’H Group’s business activities, are primarily handled in Brittany. Consult the contact details of its slaughterhouses and portioning, delicatessen products, frozen meat, canned meat and culinary solutions plants.
BernardMeat
Kerbéthune - 56501 Locminé
FR.56.140.002.CE
Loudéac ViandesMeat
66 rue A. Enaud - 22605 Loudéac
FR.22.136.006.CE
Ster GozMeat
Route de Pont Aven - 29380 Bannalec
FR.29.004.022.CE
BernardProcessed meat
Zone du Barderff - 56500 Moréac
FR.56.140.006.CE (cooked meat)
Jean Floc'hProcessed meat
ZI du Dressève - 56150 Baud
FR.56.010.001.CE (uncooked meat)
Conserverie Jean Floc’hProcessed meat
ZI du Dressève - 56150 Baud
FR.56.010.001.CE
Surgélation Jean Floc’hProcessed meat
ZI de Bonvallon - 56150 Guénin
FR.56.074.001.CE
Viandes ClermontProcessed meat
Avenue de la Forêt - 35341 Liffré
FR.35.152.002.CE
Quillard & FilsProcessed meat
Z.I. Nantes - 44470 Carquefou
FR.44.026.009.CE
CAP Solutions CulinairesCulinary solutions
ZI du Brétin - 56140 Pleucadeuc
FR.56.159.002.CE / FR 56.159.003
ChambostProcessed meat
Rue Edouard Branly - 69170 Tarare
FR.69.243.003 (dry meat)