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Food and Beverage ManufacturingOccitanie, France201-500 Employees
La Compagnie des Desserts is a French dessert manufacturer in the food and beverage sector, based in Lézignan-Corbières, Occitanie, France, with an employee count in the range of 201 to 500. The company was formed in 2008 through the merger of ice cream producer Pole Sud and patisserie maker Gourmet Parisien, uniting two dessert specialists with a shared focus on serving the restaurant sector. LCDD operates as a dessert specialist for restaurants, producing ice creams and pastries and emphasizing product quality, safety, and the use of noble raw materials; it uses brands including Pole Sud, Le Gourmet Parisien, Louise, Philippe Urraca, and Pole Sud, and represents La Croquanterie and Pain Petifour. The business reports production scales of 4,255,000 litres of ice cream and 30,000,000 pâtisserie units, serving more than 11,000 customers, with a consolidated turnover of about €46 million and 98% of revenue from the food-service channel. In February 2023, La Compagnie des Desserts was acquired by private equity firm PAI Partners from Argos Wityu.