15 Facts About Fauchon

Fauchon is a French gourmet food and delicatessen company that was founded in 1886 in Paris, France.

Fauchon is considered a major reference in contemporary French gourmet foods, and it had 81 outlets in operation around the world as of 2019.

Founder of the Fauchon brand, Auguste Fauchon, was born in Ellon, Calvados in 1856.

Fauchon moved to Paris in 1880, where he began to work as a street vendor, moving on to become a wine and spirits merchant.

Auguste Fauchon died in 1945, and his children sold the company in 1952.

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Fauchon expanded the name abroad, opening new Fauchon outlets including in Japan at Takashimaya department stores in 1972.

Fauchon launched new products and ad campaigns, renovated points of sale, withdrew the brand from mass-market outlets and renovated the historical Tea Salon on Place de la Madeleine.

Barclays Private Equity France, a subsidiary of the Barclays plc Group, backed Laurent Adamowicz in his takeover of Fauchon to participate in its development in France and abroad.

In 2003, the Fauchon network included 650 franchises, with 16 of its own shops, three in New York and 13 in Paris.

Fauchon continues to produce most of its own breads, cakes, pastries and delicatessen products on its premises .

Fauchon had some 60 stores and restaurants around the world in 2013.

Fauchon reinforced its presence through Asia in Hong Kong in 2014 and Thailand, and invested in North America, and the Middle East, where new openings are concentrated.

In September 2015, Fauchon adopted a new strategy and began developing a luxury hospitality branch.

Fauchon partnered with the upscale hotel group Esprit de France, a subsidiary of Compagnie Lebon, to create and co-manage the first Fauchon L'Hotel on the Place de la Madeleine in Paris in a building acquired by Qatar National Bank.

In Cast Away, the 2000 movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, FedEx executive Chuck Noland hands his colleagues a Fauchon bag containing fresh baguette bread from Paris before they board a plane.