Chabert company

What Chabert company does

Fruitières Chabert (legal entity: Fromagerie Chabert S.A.) is a family-owned cheese dairy company headquartered in Vallières-sur-Fier, Haute-Savoie, France, specializing in the production, aging, packaging, and direct retail of traditional Savoie cheeses. The company operates 11 production sites (fruitières) across the Savoie and Haute-Savoie departments, each combining a manufacturing facility with a company-owned retail boutique. Founded on the 1967 acquisition of La Fruitière du Val de Fier by the Chabert family, the business is registered as a private S.A. (Société Anonyme) with no external institutional ownership identified.

Core operations center on collecting and transforming more than 100 million liters of milk annually from local farms into a portfolio of approximately 17 cheese varieties, spanning five AOP designations (Abondance, Beaufort, Tome des Bauges, Reblochon de Savoie fermier, Reblochon de Savoie fruitier), four IGP designations (Emmental de Savoie, Gruyère de France, Tomme de Savoie, Raclette de Savoie), three organic products (Tommette Chabert Bio, Flocon de Savoie Bio, Vacherin Bio), and regional specialties (Tomme de montagne, Tomme crayeuse, Tomme céronnée, Raclette fumée, Fondue aux 4 fromages). The technical foundation is traditional artisanal cheese-making — ancestral affinage techniques including hand-turning 2-3 times per week, spruce-board aging, and notably the only hot cellar for Gruyère maturation in the Savoie/Haute-Savoie region.

Revenue is generated entirely through direct-to-consumer retail at the 10 company-owned fruitière boutiques, serving individual consumers (residents and regional tourists) and a secondary wholesale segment to restaurants, hotels, and specialty food retailers (per company material, no specific B2B customers are named). Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The company does not operate e-commerce, marketplace listings, or third-party retail channels based on available data. Marketing is conducted through organic social media (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn), regional fairs, virtual production-facility tours, and on-site experiential retail. No online sales channel, API, or digital platform is documented.

Name

Chabert company

Legal name

Fromagerie Chabert S.A.

Website

https://fruitieres-chabert.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1936

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fruitières Chabert is a family-owned artisanal cheese dairy headquartered in Vallières-sur-Fier, France, operating 11 fruitières across Savoie and Haute-Savoie that produce, age, and directly retail traditional AOP, IGP, and organic Savoie cheeses to consumers and food-service buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Artisanal Cheese Production

NAICS

Cheese Manufacturing (311513)

SIC

Dairy Products (2020)

akta.pro primary industry

Cheese Manufacturing (AFAKAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ripened Natural Cheese Manufacturing (Semi-Soft, Hard & Blue) (AFAHABAB)

Keywords

• Savoie cheese production
• Artisanal dairy products
• AOP cheese manufacturing
• Cheese affinage services
• Farm-to-retail dairy

Headquarters

HQ city

Vallières

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Cheese sales (B2C retail): Direct sales of cheeses and dairy products to consumers through company-owned retail locations (fruitières) and boutiques. Each production site includes a shop where customers can purchase products directly.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fruitières Chabert produces, matures, packages, and sells a wide range of Savoie cheeses — including AOP, IGP, organic, and specialty lines such as Reblochon, Beaufort, Abondance, Tommes, Raclette, and fondue blends — through 11 production fruitières and 10 company-owned retail shops. The company processes more than 100 million liters of milk per year, integrating traditional artisanal affinage with direct-to-consumer retail at the point of production.

Product overview

Fruitières Chabert is a family-owned cheese dairy company operating across 11 manufacturing sites (fruitières) in Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France, producing traditional Savoie cheeses. The portfolio includes AOP cheeses (Abondance, Beaufort, Tome des Bauges, Reblochon de Savoie fermier and fruitier), IGP cheeses (Emmental de Savoie, Gruyère de France, Tomme de Savoie, Raclette de Savoie), organic products (Tommette Chabert Bio, Flocon de Savoie Bio, Vacherin Bio), and regional specialties (Tomme de montagne, Tomme crayeuse, Tomme céronnée, Raclette fumée, Fondue aux 4 fromages). The company collects and transforms over 100 million liters of milk annually.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Abondance AOP

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Lactalis: World's largest dairy group, headquartered in France (Président, Galbani, Leerdammer). Largest incumbent in French cheese with broad product coverage including AOP and specialty cheeses, representing the upper bound of scale in the industry.
• Savencia Fromage & Dairy: Public French specialty cheese group owning brands such as Caprice des Dieux and Saint Albray. Broader incumbent in French cheese with overlapping specialty/AOP exposure and a much wider distribution footprint.
• Bel Group: Private French multinational cheese company (Laughing Cow, Babybel, Kiri). Broad incumbent operating across the French and international cheese market with a portfolio that includes regional specialty offerings alongside mass-market brands.

Direct peers

• Coopérative du Beaufort: Producer organization overseeing Beaufort AOP production in Savoie. Directly comparable as another Savoie AOP cheese cooperative with overlapping farm-milk sourcing and traditional affinage practices.
• Fromagerie Marcel Petite: Comté producer and affineur operating maturing cellars in Franche-Comté. Directly comparable as a French AOP cheese specialist with terroir-driven affinage expertise and premium positioning.
• Fromagerie Berthaut: Burgundy-based producer of Époisses AOP and other regional cheeses. Comparable as a family-run French AOP cheese affineur with branded specialty retail and wholesale distribution.
• Fromagerie de Thônes: Haute-Savoie Reblochon AOP producer operating a cooperative of local fruitières. Closest direct peer to Chabert, sharing the same terroir, AOP designations, and DTC fruitière retail model in the Savoie region.
• Fromagerie Milleret: Franche-Comté-based producer of Comté and Morbier AOP cheeses with both branded retail and foodservice distribution. Comparable as a French regional AOP dairy balancing artisanal identity with scaled production.

Regional players

• Coopérative Laitière de la Haute-Savoie: Cooperative dairy in Haute-Savoie producing Reblochon, Tomme de Savoie, and Emmental de Savoie. Directly comparable as a regional cooperative peer operating the same AOP/IGP cheese categories in the same geographic catchment.

Emerging players

• Fromagerie Hervé Mons: French master affineur working with multiple AOP/regional cheeses. Comparable as a specialized, brand-forward player in the premium French cheese category, though with an affineur (rather than producer-farmer) model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/FruitieresChabert
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fruitieres-chabert
• Instagraminstagram.com/fruitiereschabert

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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