Groupe Roullier
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| Industry | Agrosupplies, Feed Phosphates, Magnesium, Products & Solutions for Industry, Plastics Industry, Consumer Plant Nutrition, Food Industry |
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| Founded | 1959 |
| Founder | Daniel Roullier |
| Headquarters | , France |
Key people | Sébastien Chauffaut (Executive Board President), Yves Pelle (Supervisory board President), Danielle Cappe (General Manager) |
| Revenue | € 2 billion (2019) – consolidated turn-over |
| Owner | Roullier Family |
Number of employees | 8,200 (2019) |
| Subsidiaries | Agriplas, Compagnie Armoricaine de Navigation, Maison Colibri, Florendi, TIMAC AGRO International, Ker Cadelac, Le Guillou, Magna, Timab Magnesium, Nuwen, Phosphea, Vitas |
| Website | www |
Groupe Roullier is a French agribusiness conglomerate founded in 1959 in Saint-Malo, France, by Daniel Roullier. The company specializes in the production and chemical processing of nutrients and feeds for plants, animals and humans. Groupe Roullier employs more than 8,000 people, its products are sold in 131 countries, with a consolidated turn-over of €2 billion.
Groupe Roullier was established in 1959 in Saint-Malo, France, with the creation of a maerl grinding plant by the founder, Daniel Roullier. Maërl has been traditionally used by farmers in the Brittany region of France as a form soil amendment.[1] First under the name TIMAC, the company was focused on the industrial processing of maerl. The business later became Groupe Roullier and included new offers of fertilizers, including maerl combinations with phosphate.[2]
Activities
Groupe Roullier is organized around seven types of activities: agrosupplies (especially fertilizers), phosphates for the animal food industry, magnesium, industrial products, consumer plant nutrition, plastics industry and the food industry. Agrosupplies are closely linked to plant nutrition through soil amendments to improve fertility, fertilizer products for plants, and root and leaf biostimulants that act on the physiological level of the plant.
In the field of agrosupplies, Groupe Roullier has four subsidiaries: Timac Agro (fertilization and animal feed supplements), Grassland Agro (primarily based in Ireland), Vitas (Portuguese market) and William Houde (Canadian market). The transformation and production of phosphates is managed by one subsidiary, Phosphea, created in 1976.[3] The production of magnesium is divided among three subsidiaries: Magnesitas Navarras, Magnesium do Brasil, Timab Magnesium.[4]
Business activity also sand exploitation with subsidiary Compagnie Armoricaine de Navigation.[5] One subsidiary manage business around industrial products : Nuwen; Florendi Consumer plant Nutrition and Plastics Industry with Agriplas.
Groupe Roullier has also invested in two food production companies for pastries and biscuits: Maison Colibri and Patisseries Gourmandes.
Business Development
Since its founding, the Groupe’s activities have expanded to include the distribution and marketing of its own activities, which led to investments in maritime transport and plastics processing. In 1988, Groupe Roullier launched its plastics business with Agriplas for the development of all packaging and containers for its agricultural supplies.[6] At this time, Groupe Roullier also began developing products for animals, particularly food supplements.[7] In the 2000s, Groupe Roullier announced a partnership with Louis Dreyfus to develop shipping activities for the transport of its own industrial products.[8]