Company ID

Date of birth
1988

Head office
ZAC du Roubian, B.P. 109, 13153 Tarascon Cedex, France
Tel. 33 4 90 91 51 70
Fax 33 4 90 91 51 79
http://www.groupebcs.com
contact@groupebcs.com

Chairman of the board and management
Jean-Luc Couturier

General directors
Alexandre Couturier
Philippe Couturier

Personnel
A staff of 650

Total sales, year 2007
100,000,000 €

Manufacturing process
Process 124 (ready-to-bake bread)
"Raw" and ready-to- bake Viennese pastry

Production sites in France

Tarascon (Head office)
Saint-Paul en Jarez
Terville
La Seyne sur Mer
Carros
Pithiviers
Colombiers
Reims

Several key dates in our history
1988, Creation of BCS and christening of Process 124
1990, Installation of the Tarascon facility (Production line 1)
1991, Start-up of the Ready Bake Process 124 plant, the # 1 Canadian baker
1994, Creation of the second production line in Tarascon
1998, The Tarascon plant doubles its production capacity and obtains ISO 9002 certification
2000, Acquisition of BVF
2002, Acquisition of Sud Panification
2006, Acquisition of Jacquet Céréales Technologie
2007, Acquisition of Le Fournil Bitterois and Boulangerie de l’Europe

Our origins:
the dough vat, the kneading table, the bags of flour

In one of the BCS Group's plants today