Good morning

On this second day of the meteorological summer, all the team DESCOURS wish you an excellent summer 2023 ahead!

We had a month of May “very wet” and spring with capricious and stormy weather in all the places in the world.

However, these precipitations are not enough to compensate the accumulated water deficit since numerous years, and we’ll have to save this natural resource given by our mother earth.

The summer season, the fields of sunflowers in bloom, the long days with light over the dark, the arrival of holidays, the time we like spend with our loved ones and friends… the time for a certain insouciance, as if frozen.

June also reminds us that half of the year 2023 will quickly be behind, and that time passes very quickly, punctuated by the seasons.

In your jobs, our jobs, we are dependent and very aware regarding this seasonality and the impact of the climatic conditions on the fruit’s crops. A crop can be destroyed a few minutes before the first collect.

It’ll be more and more complicated to “get ahead of ourselves,” and giving indications on the availability for the fruit’s crops and even more regarding prices long time in advance, the term “long time” remaining of course to be determined according to the elements mentioned above.

We hope that, despite the current context, you have spent the first half 2023 without problems, and that your respective business is doing as well as possible, despite the not very positive economic and geopolitical situation, we must remain trust in the future, after the rain the sun is still shining!

We believe that this new fruit season in Europe will allow prices to decrease, particularly red fruits, but this remains to be confirmed.

On the other hand, we don’t take risks announcing a complicated apricot season in both Europe and North Africa.

We remain of course at your total disposal for any request. Do not hesitate to contact us, we’ll do the best to satisfy you and respond positively to your requests as usual.

We wish you all the best, for your loved ones to, and very great summer 2023 😊.

The sales teams of Roger DESCOURS Group, frozen fruit division and Concept fruit, chestnut processing unit, will once again have a common stand during the {SIRHA 2023} which will take place from January 19^th   to January 23^rd   2023 at the EUREXPO Lyon exhibition center.

On this 21^st edition, the SIRAH will celebrate its 40th anniversary, Roger, Pedro, Emmanuel, Julien, Fabien and Joël will be happy to welcome you on the stand 4 C 70, to share a moment pleasant and friendly moment around a coffee, with possibility to exchange on the products of the range.

It’ll be also the opportunity to wish you happy new year 2023, for you and all yours nears and loves people.

Dear customers and partner, dear friends, all Roger DESCOURS Group team frozen fruit division and Concept fruits, chestnut processing unit thanks’ you for your visits and the time spent with us on our stand 5 A G105.

Like all the trade shows, this one was rich in meetings, we have the chance to share common values between colleagues and partners from all around the world, the chance to travel and share unforgettable moments.

As this quote from Boris VIAN says so well

« … In short, beauty is everywhere. It’s not she who is missing in our eyes, it is our eyes that miss her … »
Boris Vian

We’ll be happy to see you again next year from 9 to 23 January 2023, during the “Salon International de la Restauration, de l’Hôtellerie, et de l’Alimentation” at EUREXPO – Lyon. (SIRHA)

While our mother nature has put on her autumn colors, now place in “Ardèche” and in Europe in the chestnut crops.

The Chestnut, a product of our mother nature that reminds us the good smell of wood fire, grilled and delicacies, this particular smell that emanates from the brazier and the cone of newspaper. This smell intimately associated with winter and the end of year celebrations.

Smell associated with family, our childhood and the beautiful moments of our life. The cultivation of chestnuts is a part of the heritage in “Ardèche”. It was for a long time an essential resource for feeding poor populations and today benefits from a protected designation origin. Our colleagues and friends of CONCEPT FRUIT know all the possible recipes, do not hesitate to contact them.

See you in Sirha Lyon 2023 to celebrate the new year.

The chestnut tree is nicknamed the “breadfruit tree” in our regions, and in all the countries of the southern Europe, in fact this fruit opens many possibilities of replacing wheat or cereal and can be used in many applications.

Historically the chestnut has inspired many culinary recipes, and some varieties has sometimes been used to “feed the pigs” in the farms, and … It wasn’t that long ago

Once again, this season, many chestnut producers in our department of Ardeche, supported by Mr. Stéphane LAINE, the Quality Director of Roger DESCOURS Group, very invested in the cause of the chestnut, were very happy to deliver Roger DESCOURS Group and by the same our production unit Concept-fruits the processing subsidiary, by being remunerated at the fair value of their work, it’s really the true principle of partnership and trust.

Cream of chestnuts, chestnuts in jars, frozen chestnuts, vacuum-packed for aperitif, who knows all these possibilities to awaken our taste buds.

What strong comeback for the chestnut around its multiple gastronomic possibilities, the idea and the change made its way, and it’s a long time since the chestnuts was consider in the collective unconscious as a “secondary fruit” just for feed … the pigs!

Last November 23, Mr. Thierry DEVIMEUX, prefect of the Ardeche met Mr. Roger DESCOURS the founding President & CEO of the eponymous group, in Vernosc-lès-Annonay in the premises of the processing plant Concept Fruits today French leader of chestnut processor, accompanied by Mr. Pédro QUINTANA the General manager and the local elected authorities.

We are pleased to present a short video captured last month, after receipt of the Ardeche chestnuts crops, the sorting and grading operations before peeling, and before finding these succulents chestnuts on Christmas table to accompany the turkey and for the snack of our child’s!

Dear friends, dear customers

Our beautiful department of « Ardèche » has covered its autumn colours, these colours with the trees are tinged with warm and flamboyant colours, where the sun comes to illuminate the last days of the summer that wanted to play overtime, these colours where the rhythm of nature sublimates everything.

Autumn burns the rivers ablaze, sets the mountains ablaze, and sublime the chestnut groves ablaze, each panorama encountered at the bend of the path is a firework display of sublime flamboyant colours ! We are pleased to announce to you at first the next TV advertising campaign will be scheduled on Monday, November 1^st on the channels BFM TV / CNEWS and LCI, you will find attached the schedule for LCI Channel as well as some preview images of the ancestral know-how of Roger DESCOURS Group. All the team wish you an excellent season. Treat your taste and your customers and sublimate your eyes with the products of the Roger DESCOURS group.

Sincerely
Roger DESCOURS

For the first professional exhibition for the team DESCOURS group in 2 years, our participation in the 20th edition of SIRHA in EUREXPO Lyon has been a success. This exhibition, symbol of the resumption for an “almost normal life”, was for our teams and a great moment, rich in conviviality and human exchanges.

On stand 1J30 with the Auvergne Rhône Alpes Region, we spent together, among colleagues, 4 unforgettable days which allow us to create synergy and group cohesion with our emblematic President Mr. Roger DESCOURS to continue to move forward together towards excellence.

We would like to thank all the visitors who came to visit us on our stand, our customers of course, our friends {but our customers are often, if not always, friends and, sometimes since long time} but also all people who stopped to discover our products around a coffee or a glass of water!

What a pleasure also to receive these young students in cooking, in pastry, this new generation for our gastronomy coming to seek information, to discover the products from Concept fruits chestnuts cream, past, desserts with the possibility to taste the creations of our pastry partner “Meilleur Ouvrier de France” Mr. Pascal MOLINES, but also to inquire about the possibilities offered with frozen fruit from DESCOURS SAS.

Numerous project’s holder has visited us, creating or business buyers, artisanal or industrial projects. These projects are the jobs for tomorrow, always with research for excellence, traceability, and quality! They came in the right house.

We also had the pleasure walking the stand and visiting our customers, manufacturers, craftsmen, distributors, on their stand, it allowed us to rediscover the wealth of their know-how and discover their latest innovations in terms of creation and packaging.

As always, the visit of local and regional officials is always a special moment. We had the pleasure to receive the President of the Region and many other officials and institutional partners

A thought for the organizer but also for all the “invisible” without whom nothing would be possible. It is thanks to them  if that the stands and aisles were clean and welcoming at 8:00 a.m.

We look forward to seeing you all for a future edition.

The Concept fruits team
& SAS DESCOURS