Our commitments
Bring Alsatian culinary heritage to your plates – without any compromise or concession on the taste!
The questions you never dared to ask us: our straight answers! No nonsense no(r) false statements.
Do you only use French meat in your products?
The historical priority for our company is, first and foremost, to supply high quality and safe raw materials, ensuring that they are sourced from safe countries like France, Belgium, Germany and Spain.
Hence why we display the EU (European Union) logo on our packaging as the guarantee of a quality meat sourcing
Since the creation of our worker cooperative in April 2019, we have reinforced the notions of responsibility and quality. We give priority to sourcing French, regional and/or local raw materials and ingredients whenever possible.
A LOCAL/REGIONAL SOURCING
From a local and regional point of view, we are facing the lack of a Grand Est supply chain for meat with low quantities available. Nevertheless, we want to work towards its creation.
A FRENCH SOURCING?
When it comes to French origin, our working approach is hampered by the fact that large French meat suppliers prioritize exports at the expense of the French market. For example, the African swine flu epidemic in China, which destroyed their livestock, triggered a surge in pork prices worldwide.
More generally, since their customer base is concerned, the large French meat suppliers favour the large, global food multinationals to the detriment of the SMEs, which makes our supply, the sales of our products and hence our jobs unstable.
To date, we already pay an average of 20% more than competition for our French-origin raw materials.
We do not wish to exceed this limit in order to keep offering our products at the right price to our customers and consumers, as well as to thus maintain a healthy financial stability for our company.
In a nutshell, the historical priority for our company is to supply itself with, above all, high quality and safe raw materials.
The size of our company compels us to diversify the origin of our raw materials (meat) in order to have the right quantities and premium quality via reliable supplies.
We will continue to prioritize French-origin materials even if the instability of food supplies obliges us to put a European Union label on our products for more transparency.
Do you still use additives and nitrite salt in your recipes? And why?
Before being worker-owner, we are consumers who share the same concerns about eating better, healthier, more balanced and diversified food.
This exercise is not simple; we need to find the right trade-off in order to:
Ensure food security for our products in the fresh market, which is very demanding in terms of hygiene and health standards.
Meet consumer demand for “eating better”.
Remain affordable in terms of prices as consumers do not want to pay 30-50% more for their products.
Integrate the requirements of the different distribution networks concerning longer use-by dates in order to limit breakage and food waste.
Keep abreast of the various governmental recommendations (World Health Organization, etc.) or private companies or non-profit organizations (Yuka, etc.) to provide advice, whether they are interested or not.
Conclusion: This will be achieved without giving in to fads, false promises or recipe manipulations that would deceive the consumer.
Since April 2019, we have started a continuous improvement approach for our (cooking) recipes such as:
Reducing the list of ingredients
Limiting the use of allergenic ingredients in our delicatessen products
Opting for natural flavourings & colourings
Removing of controversial food additives when technically possible
This constitutes a long and complex process, as our aim is to preserve the organoleptic qualities of our products.
We are gradually implementing our approach to both additives and nitrite salt, recipe by recipe, in our various product ranges. It is also applied in the development of our new products.
It is also implemented in the development of our new products.
In addition to testing, we regularly organise comparative tastings between our products and those of our competitors available in stores to ensure that we respect our motto: ‘Eat Better – but Eat Well‘!
Will you offer an organic range?
Before answering, what exactly does organic mean? What do we mean when we refer to organic products?
Does that mean that the product is local or French? = NON
Does that mean that the product has a low carbon footprint? = NON
Does that mean that the product is really pesticide or additive-free? = NON
Does that mean that the product is necessarily high-quality and tasty? = NON
The notion of organic products as it exists today does not suit us because we consider that organic products should be reconsidered in their global context to ensure transparency.
The notion of organic products should be coherent and they should be accessible to everybody.
Finally, we believe that the notion of organic products should not be there just to charge 40% to 50% more.
Our COMMITMENTS is to offer quality recipes so that you will be happy to enjoy them and share them with friends.
Furthermore, when buying our products, you act in a socially responsible way as you support the employment of around a hundred of workers who sustain a know-how which exists since 1876.
Do you prefer to focus on local farmers?
Since the beginning of the worker cooperative in April 2019, our commitment has been to contribute to the creation of a branch made in Alsace and/or the Grand Est by having a responsible approach through the definition of a fair price acceptable to all (breeders, slaughterers, food companies, distributors and consumers).
Up to date, everything remains to be done because there is no structured supply chain, which does not facilitate our approach.
Are you committed to an animal welfare policy/approach?
Let’s be clear, we cannot accept any form of animal abuse.
Within the framework of audits and/or supplier selection, we are fully committed to establish specifications defining rules based on common sense in relation to the well-being and respect of the animals.
What is your impact on the environment ?
Packaging Reducing plastic packaging is a real challenge for the environment.
We are fully aware of our impact on the environment, but to date our actions are limited because of the structure of our factory / production process. Nevertheless we have already succeeded in eliminating all PVC material in our packaging trays in favour of PET (polyethylene terephthalate). In addition, we are studying the possibility of using recycled materials which meet the demanding standards of the food industry in terms of food safety (food contact, anti-migration of inks, specific barriers, etc.) Finally, we only use cardboard for the transport of our products (over-packaging ?????).
Since 2016 we have been working with ECO EMBALLAGE and have put in place new signage to help consumers sort better and more all the packaging of all of our prepacked products.
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Water management is an integral part of our business
Water is a key element in our manufacturing process. Among other things, it contributes to keeping our industrial site spotless every day.
Beyond the value of water, we are fully aware of the climatic challenges of tomorrow. That is why our worker cooperative is committed on a daily basis to eliminating waste and optimising our consumption as fairly as possible.
This implies a vigilance from all of us, regular monitoring of our consumption (volumes), and a willingness and dedication at all levels of each of our employees-associates.
Electricity Our worker cooperative has been committed to significantly reducing its electricity consumption since day one of the company's creation.
This is reflected by the investment in energy-efficient processes in conjunction with an IT monitoring system
Adjusting the need to reality, integrating the new IEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) standards is our willingness and our commitment.
What is your CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) policy?
We have 2 specific characteristics/features:
Every employee is a partner in the company, meaning they have an entrepreneurial spirit, regardless of their role within the SCOP where they are shareholders.
We are from Alsace!
What does that mean?
We have strong commitments to the human side of things, to the respect he or she must receive, as well as to his or her physical and psychological integrity. We are committed to the well-being of our employees at work, while at the same time maintaining a high standard of service.
Being from Alsace, we want to be responsible towards our immediate environment, i.e. the relevant local authorities or non-profit organizations (employment, schools, local towns, region, etc.)
We are building our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) strategy step by step since the transition to a worker cooperative on the 1st of April 2019
An internal project team was appointed to analyse and make relevant recommendations that we could implement quickly.
We will communicate on this matter in due course.
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