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Remembering Yves Rocher

Posted by jac | Monday January 4, 2010

We were sorry to hear of Yves Rocher's death on December 26th in Paris. The entrepreneur died of a sudden vascular brain accident at 79. In commemoration, we've compiled a brief list of pivotal moments in his life that you probably didn't know.

From a young age, Yves Rocher assisted his mother in running the textile family business in his hometown of La Gacilly in Brittany, France.
In 1958, at the age of 28, he founded the first production site of the Yves Rocher Group in the attic room of his family's home.
He sold his first cosmetic construction, a cream based on the herb "ficaire," via mail order. He was the first of his country to sell cosmetics using the postal service.
In 1969, he opened the first Yves Rocher store in Paris, setting forth the first of his many success stories.
50 years later, the Breton family enterprise is a multinational company.
His passion for La Gallicy's political and economic scene led him to serve as the village's mayor from 1962 to 2008.
In 1959, at the height of Brittany's rural exodus. Mr Rocher made the oath that «One day La Gacilly will be famous and prosperous». It is now a well-to-do economic milieu.

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