Contact us:
Mo. 0450710188commercial@buttay-affineur.fr
27 Avenue de La Fontaine Couverte
74200 THONON-LES-BAINS
74200 THONON-LES-BAINS
Store open Monday to Saturday
from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.Wholesalers welcome from Monday to Friday
from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and
th Saturday from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Genesis
- SARL BUTTAY FRERES was registered in the Thonon commercial register on 03/13/1934. She has was made up of four brothers Maurice, Joseph, François and Marcel out of a family of seven including two sisters. The eldest was 33 years old and the youngest was 20 years old. The parents were farmers Grange Blanche, commune of Bernex.
Lancement
- The activity is the trade in cheese, live pigs and then livestock feed. She started 5 avenue de la Dranse where the four brothers set up their home, warehouse and pigsty. It was exercised until the end of 2008.
- In 1940 she moved to “Chez Déchamboux” in the Trolliettes district, avenue de Forchat. behind the Thonon stadium which also had cheese cellars for the time to carry out work on the other site.
Specifications – 09/27/2024
Pig trade
- The main activity quickly became the pig trade at a time when the fruit farms of each village had an independent cheese maker. They bought milk from farmers and used the serum, by-product of cheese making to feed pigs.
- The BUTTAY company supplied the little pigs which it bought in the center of France then in the southwest in the Toulouse region. Once they reached the slaughter weight, she bought them back from the fruit growers. to sell them to wholesale butchers in the Haute-Savoie department, as far as Chambéry. A trade of the same nature was carried out with peasants who at the time fattened pigs for their own needs and also to supplement their income.
2nd generation
- Another Chablais resident, Mr. Raymond BURGNARD based in Bons en Chablais, exercised the same profession of pig trade. Rather than being competitors, they decided to create a de facto company which lasted for more than twenty years. Three of the founders were relieved by one of their children and even by two for one of them: Roland, Gilbert brother of Robert and Antoine.
- The activity evolved towards the significant development of the cheese trade. In fact the fruit trees Local businesses operated by independents were disappearing for the benefit of large companies.
- Until the 2000s, the company sold “à la Chine” in Chablais: hotel-restaurants, communities, grocery stores, farmers with two peaks of activity in the winter and summer seasons.
- It also played the role of wholesaler, particularly for the local manufacture of abundance and imported products from neighboring Switzerland.
- The turnover which was growing significantly as well as the requirements arising from the application of European food standards required new premises.
Thriving business
- Comté, Beaufort, fromage suisse avec une clientèle qui s'est développée en France notamment à Rungis et un peu international.
- Le commerce de porcs vivants, de charcuterie et d'aliments pour bétail se poursuit. Elle a ouvert également un magasin de détail dans les locaux de Fontaine Couverte.
Spécifications – 27/09/2024
- Until the 2000s, the company sold “à la Chine” in Chablais: hotel-restaurants, communities, grocery stores, farmers with two peaks of activity in the winter and summer seasons.
- It also played the role of wholesaler, particularly for the local manufacture of abundance and imported products from neighboring Switzerland.
- The turnover which was growing significantly as well as the requirements arising from the application of European food standards required new premises.
Thriving business
- For almost 10 years the company operated a former railway tunnel on the banks of Lake Annecy to refine cheeses in excellent ecological conditions with the temperature and natural hydrometry.
- For a decade, she has also contributed to the operation of the only public slaughterhouse in Haute-Normandie. Savoie located in Megève by the weekly slaughter of pigs from local breeding including those fattened by the company in the Larringes pigsty.
Strong values
Expansion of premises
- The last of the active cousins, Antoine, assisted by Gabriel, the only representative of the third generation set up the activity at the end of 2008 in new premises covering 1,700 m2 at 27 avenue de la Covered Fountain.
- These have been completely renovated, created and occupied for many years by the family POLLET-CHARPIN (Wholesale grocery store).
Today
- Today the company, managed by Gabriel BUTTAY born in 1981, son of Robert, sole representative of the family, employs 26 people, sells mainly specialties: Abondance, Tomme,
- The company has always matured cheeses but much more today. To do this, she created a refining workshop in MESINGES commune of ALLINGES where care is provided by robots.
- Gabriel BUTTAY structured the company and with his teams continues the development of the company who is celebrating his 90th birthday.
Development
Buttay family tree :
Buttay House, 3 generations
