Saupiquet

In the 1870s, Arsène Saupiquet (born 1849), originally from Jussac, a village in Cantal, moved to Nantes with his family to occupy the position of director of the new factory that the tinsmith Alfred Riom (future mayor of the city) has just created.

In 1989, the company sold its vegetable canning business as well as its Cassegrain subsidiary to its competitor Bonduelle, allowing it to refocus on its main activity: canned fish.

In March 2005, the Nantes factory with its 70 employees, as well as the company's head office in the Cité des Ducs, installed since the 1950s on Boulevard Jules-Verne, closed their doors for good.

[4] Finally, in 2010, it was the turn of the Saint-Avé factory, in Morbihan, which specializes in the manufacture of tuna-based salad bowls and tuna in sauce.

In France, the company only has one factory, in Quimper (Finistère) in the Moulin Vert district, which processes mackerel or sardine fillets.