CAM 56 COOPAGRI BRETAGNE EOLYS
 


1911: Creation of the Office Central des Oeuvres Mutuelles Agricoles du Finistère, a farm purchasing cooperative whose activity rapidly spread to mutual insurance (to become Groupama d'Armor) and banking with the Caisses de Crédit Rural (future Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne) as well as to defending agricultural interests.

1919: First local depots are created

1920: Start of activities to collect cereals, then vegetables and potatoes.

1926: Extension to Côtes du Nord region.

1933: The SAM Farmer's Union of Morbihan is created.

1936: The Loudéac cooperative is created, becoming the CACB in 1970, and later joining forces with COPALL (created in 1963) to form Dynal in 1988.

1938: Several unions group together in the Morbihan farmers union cooperative.

1945: Douphine (whose headquarters are in Brasparts) is created

1950: Beginning of the Le Trieux cooperative (headquarters in Guingamp).

1950-1960: Setting up and developing dairy and livestock cooperatives (pigs, cattle, chickens).

1960: UNICOPA is created by several cooperatives (including Le Trieux), in order to process and market members' produce and production (initially, milk)
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1964: The SAM joins UNICOPA. Each of the Central Office's activities becomes independent :

loan activity, now Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne,

insurance activity, now Groupama Bretagne,

economic activities: All of the cooperatives of the Central Office merge in 1963, to become the Brittany farmers cooperative (CAB) in 1966.


1960-1990: Various productions are developed within the cooperatives (milk, cereals, vegetables, potatoes, etc.) with concurrent development of agrifood supply chains and modernizing practices (production, collection, processing, and so on).

1968: The SAM becomes the Morbihan farmers cooperative (CAM). It provides supplies for farms, sells their produce (potatoes, vegetables and apples) and produces feed for cattle.


1966-1990: Agrifood supply chains are set up. There are 40 companies in the group.

1971: 1st "Libre-Choix" store in Guingamp.

1973: 1st "Magasin Vert" store opens in Chateaulin (29).

2002: The Douphine (Brasparts-29), Dynal (Loudéac-22) and Le Trieux (Guingamp-22) cooperatives create Union EOLYS, by pooling all of their facilities and resources.

2005: Industrial facilities for poultry are transfered to L.D.C.

2007: CAM 56 joins Caliance alongside Coopagri Bretagne.

1990-2009: The alliance and partnership policy leads to creating supply chains that are leaders in their markets (milk, beef, pork and poultry, vegetables for industry and fresh vegetables).

2010: Merging of 3 cooperatives and creation of Triskalia.