Patisserie Du Soleil

What Patisserie Du Soleil does

Patisserie Du Soleil is a privately held, for-profit bakery based in Calgary, Canada, selling baked goods, sweets, and coffee drinks. The company operates with a headcount in the 11-50 range and is co-founded and co-owned by Ala Nahal, who is listed as the sole leadership figure in the available data.

The firm's business model appears to be that of a single-location specialty retail bakery serving walk-in consumers in Calgary, with no disclosed wholesale, catering, or e-commerce distribution channels. The product mix combines French-style patisserie (signaled by the "Patisserie Du Soleil" branding) with complementary coffee beverages, a standard configuration for neighborhood bakery-cafés. No pricing, ticket size, menu breadth, or daily volume data is publicly available.

Information disclosure is unusually thin: the company's own website returned only a verification/loading placeholder at the time of data collection, and no revenue, funding, subsidiary, customer, partnership, certification, or detailed product information could be extracted from third-party sources. There are no signals of multi-unit expansion, franchise activity, or institutional investment. The business is, on available evidence, a small, owner-operated independent bakery with no externally verifiable scale metrics.

Name

Patisserie Du Soleil

Website

https://patisseriedusoleil.com

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Patisserie Du Soleil is a privately held bakery in Calgary, Canada, selling baked goods, sweets, and coffee drinks to local walk-in consumers under co-founder and co-owner Ala Nahal.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Artisanal Bakery

NAICS

Retail Bakeries (311811), Baked Goods Retailers (445291), Bread and Bakery Product Manufacturing (31181)

SIC

Bakery Products (2050), Sugar & Confectionery Products (2060)

akta.pro primary industry

Patisseries & Viennoiserie (French-Style) (THAFAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Patisseries & Dessert Boutiques (CRAHAGAB), Chocolate & Confectionery Patisseries (Bonbons, Truffles, Macarons) (THAFAFAL)

Keywords

• Artisan bakery
• French pastries
• Baked goods
• Specialty coffee
• Dessert shop

Headquarters

HQ city

Calgary

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Patisserie Du Soleil is an artisan bakery that produces and sells baked goods, sweets (pastries/desserts), and coffee drinks to retail consumers. The business operates from a Calgary, Canada storefront and is supported by 11–50 employees. Its revenue is generated through direct retail sales of in-house manufactured food and beverage products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Baked Goods
• Sweets and Pastries
• Coffee Drinks

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Ladurée: Iconic French patisserie known for macarons, pastries, and premium confectionery. Comparable as a French patisserie brand selling baked goods and sweets in a premium positioning.
• Paul: Long-established French patisserie and boulangerie chain offering viennoiserie, breads, pastries, and café beverages. Direct competitor category to Patisserie Du Soleil's French-style bakery-cafe concept.
• Black Sheep Patisserie: Calgary-based patisserie specializing in croissants, viennoiserie, and specialty baked goods. Comparable as a local patisserie competitor in the same city with similar product focus.
• Le Pain Quotidien: Bakery-cafe concept serving artisan breads, pastries, and coffee in a communal, European-style setting. Shares the French/European bakery-cafe positioning with coffee and sweets.
• Pierre Hermé: Renowned French patissier famous for macarons, viennoiserie, and haute pâtisserie. Comparable operating model as a French patisserie brand that has successfully scaled premium baked goods and confections.
• Boulangerie Royale: Calgary-based French bakery producing artisan breads, pastries, and viennoiserie. Extremely comparable as a French patisserie operating in the same city, serving overlapping customer demand.

Broad incumbents

• Panera Bread: Large bakery-cafe chain offering baked goods, sweets, and coffee beverages at scale. Comparable end-category (bakery-cafe) but broader, mass-market positioning versus a craft patisserie.
• Tim Hortons: Canada's largest bakery-coffee chain with broad distribution of baked goods, sweets, and coffee. Overlaps as a Canadian bakery-coffee operator but competes in a mass-market, value-oriented segment.

Regional players

• Second Cup: Canadian specialty coffee chain with accompanying baked-goods offerings. Comparable as a Canadian coffee-plus-pastry concept, though pitch on coffee is primary rather than patisserie craft.

Others

• Yannick Fromagerie: Calgary-based French specialty food retailer offering French artisanal products. Adjacent peer that competes for the same French-artisan-food shopper in Calgary, supporting or substituting for premium French grocery purchases.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/pdsbakerychick
• Facebookfacebook.com/PatisserieYYC
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/patisserie-du-soleil

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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