OUR DAIRY COOPERATIVE

A MODEL OF SOLIDARITY

Sodiaal, France’s leading dairy cooperative! Founded in 1964, Sodiaal is much more than a dairy company: it is a cooperative owned by its member farmers. Our mission? To add value to the milk produced by our 14,511 member farmers, spread across 71 French départements, including mountain areas, and to offer consumers dairy products that are good, healthy and responsible. With our brands Candia, Entremont, Yoplait, Nactalia, Fromagerie de St‑Flour, Maison Monts & Terroirs, La Pastourelle, Capitoul, Nature de Breton and Les Éleveurs du Sud‑Ouest, we produce, mature, package and market our products across 53 sites in France!

Our social mission :
Process the milk received from our farmers, COOPERATIVE PARTNERS
Contribute to agricultural dynamics nationwide
Offer our consumers tasty, healthy, and responsible dairy products

Can you explain to us?

the Sodiaal cooperative model?

Jean‑Michel Javelle, Chairman of Sodiaal, and Florence Monot, Upstream Managing Director, take you through our cooperative model and how we create value for the French milk produced by Sodiaal’s member farmers.

A FARM TO FORK INDUSTRY

Farm

Milk collection

Dairies, cheese dairies, and production sites

Distribution and marketing

8,090

farms in France

14,511

dairy farmers

4.1

billion litres of milk collected

71

collection departments

over 250

collection vehicles

9,104

employees

8,888 in France & 130 abroad

53

sites in France

18

Multiple sales channels, direct sales shops and salesforce that are close to our clients.

90.7%

of market penetration through french households

5,8

Billions of revenue for the Holding company

OUR 53 SITES IN FRANCE

In our industrial plants, established in various departments all over the French territory, we operate through all dairy crafts to valorize our member’s milk production. The vicinity between our plants and farms is a major stake and boosts the local economies.