THE GROUP
NEWS
Innovations: The Senoble product line is expanding with two new lines of pure enjoyment!
=> Yogurt Desserts that combine gourmet luxury (think... ice cream!) with delicious fresh milk directly from our suppliers. Available in three flavors: vanilla pecan, caramel almond, and mocha.
=>Decadent Cream Desserts that will have you cracking open more than just one! High quality ingredients with a velvety creaminess that comes in a generous portion for those who find that there is never quite enough... Available in two flavors: Madagascar Natural Vanilla and Bold Chocolate
HISTORY
• Sophie Senoble founds a small traditional cheese dairy at Jouy. This is the start of a great family saga…
• André Senoble succeeds his mother and enlarges the dairy to industrial proportions.
• Claude Senoble joins his father and develops the production of the first fresh dairy products.
• Claude Senoble, with true visionary acumen, makes the successful changeover to ultra-fresh products with distributor brands. Also during these two decades:
• Cheese production stops and the Jouy factory is converted to manufacture fresh dairy products.
• Marc Senoble joins his father and production is diversified to include desserts.
• The company undergoes astonishing expansion thanks to its distributor brands, and starts to export its products.
• First mass media communications on the SENOBLE dessert brand.
• Acquisition of the WeightWatchers licence.
• Spain : First industrial establishment set up in Europe, at Noblejas.
• Part of the company's capital is transferred to an investment fund, 3i, to finance international growth.
The family retains possession of 75% of the capital.
• Construction of a logistics platform in Villeroy, near Jouy.
• Germany : creation of a commercial subsidiary.
• Slovakia : acquisition of a production unit at Zvolen.
• UK : acquisition of Elisabeth-The-Chef (EtC).
• Slovakia : acquisition of Gemerska Mliekaren, a powdered milk and butter factory near Zvolen.
• Italy : acquisition of a majority stake in Bergamin
• 3i leaves the company, and SENOBLE is once more owned 100% by the family.
• Slovakia: acquisition of an industrial site in order to bring together the activities of the two other factories Zvolen and Gemerska.
• Italy: Bergamin is now a full subsidiary of Senoble’s company and will be renamed Senoble Italia by the end of 2011.
• Slovakia: Implementation of Zvolen production plant, which regroups activities from the two old plants; namely Zvolen and Gemerska.
• UK: building and implementation of a new factory producing desserts in replacement of Elisabeth the Chef plants. The new subsidiary is to be renamed Senoble UK by the end of 2011.
• Opening of a brand new Innovation Centre in Jouy.