Café Le'Doux
Native name | カフェ・ルドゥー |
|---|---|
| Subsidiary | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Coffee Roaster, Retail, Wholesale, Coffee Shop |
| Founded 📆 | 1898 Bordeaux, France |
| Founder 👔 | Michel Le'Doux |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Tokyo, Japan |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Mr. Jiri Cerny (CEO) |
| Products 📟 | Coffee, Snacks, Tea |
| Revenue🤑 |  ¥40.19 billion (2022) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 2,620 (2022[1]) |
| Parent | Aliatta Group |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Café Le'Doux, (Japanese カフェ・ルドゥー) is a Tokyo-based roaster and retailer owned by Aliatta Group. The brand was founded in Bordeaux, France in 1898.
In 2016, the intellectual property of Café Le'Doux was transferred to Aliatta Group with the aim to restart activities under the original brand Café Le'Doux. The original logo and other attributes were re-designed and Café Le'Doux launched business activities, including coffee bean roasting and retail of its own products.
In 2022, the parent company Aliatta Group announced ¥5.8 billion investment into the entire production value chain – from research and development (R&D) to manufacturing to state-of-the-art products and technologies.[2]
Branded as unique coffee with "Italian roast, French tradition, Japanese precision" makes the company a multinational producer of high-quality coffee products.
Coffee Production
The production is divided into several areas, including a roast plant in Italy specialized in a typical Italian medium to medium-dark roast. The main production facility, specializing in all areas and specialty luxury coffee, is located at Café Le'Doux Roast Plant in Yamanashi Prefecture. The average production is limited to 2500kg of roasted coffee beans daily.
Café Le'Doux imports green coffee beans mainly from pre-selected and certified locations, including Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Hawaii and Japan.
In the current times, Café Le'Doux offers a full range of coffee products including roasted beans[3], ground coffee and Eco-friendly compostable capsules as part of their retail program and a full range of coffee and tea products as part of their licensing coffee shops. Among its offerings today are products such as: Crema, Yawatano, Fujisan, Espresso, Classic, Kona, Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, Excellente and Decafenato in both roasted bean and ground coffee variants. Café Le'Doux also produces a full range of Eco-friendly, Nespresso Compatible Capsules.
What the people from Café Le'Doux say: "Coffee is our passion. We are dedicated to roasting only the highest quality coffees so that all our customers can enjoy the finest flavours – every cup is a truly memorable experience. Our state-of-the-art roastery incorporates the very latest automation, guaranteeing consistency in every batch and providing peace of mind to our growing client base".
Retail
The company operates a number of retail coffee shops on 4 continents. The coffee shops are specially designed in a traditional French style, and the brand keeps its standard colors red and white. The shops offer traditional "drink-in" or "take-out" hot and cold coffee drinks, teas, snacks as well as roasted coffee beans, ground coffee, capsules or coffee machines for home use. All coffee shops are company owned or licensed under partnership agreements. Café Le'Doux does not offer franchises.
Offices and manufacturing plants
Café Le'Doux is presented in over 43 countries with 6 offices and manufacturing plants in Japan, Italy, Singapore and newly in the USA and Australia (from 2023). The main plant is operating together with the Le'Doux Academy at a more than 3000sqm facility in Yamanashi-ken, Japan.
References
- ↑ "The size of Café Le'Doux team".
- ↑ "The company today announced the first phase of its plans to invest as much as 5.8 billion yen - Aliatta Group Portal". www.aliatta-group.com. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- ↑ "Medium and medium dark roast coffee beans from Cafe Le'Doux".
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