Archive for the ‘export’ category
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Gold in the butter
Friday, May 15th, 2009
François Demagny transferred the Model Dairy buttermaking business to Louis Dupont in 1889. Knowing that his project to make long life butter would require significant quantities of milk, Dupont set up a cooperative with local producers to supply 800 litres of milk a day. Business developed, but so did competition on the Brazilian market. Faced [...]
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Butter across the sea
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Normandy butter travelled far and wide during the 19th century, taken by transatlantic steamers from Le Havre to the Americas (Isigny salted butter had already been traded in Brazil since the 18th century). The ships that left Le Havre loaded with butter to Rio de Janeiro, returned laden with coffee on the homeward leg. There [...]
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Railways spread English appetite for butter
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
When provision merchant John Sainsbury set up shop in London’s Drury Lane, he built his business with the slogan: “The best butter in London”. His best butters came from Normandy and were a valued part of the business for years to come. Normandy butter was on show at London’s first Universal Exhibition in 1867, where [...]
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How steam shifted French food output
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Long before grain started arriving in France from the New World, steam had already transformed the way in which goods, particularly food, were being traded around France. The arrival of the railways
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Butter before fridges (2)
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
On the eve of the French Revolution, Isigny was shipping 3.9 million pounds of butter a year (1,740 long tons or 1,770 metric tonnes) of which just over 300 tonnes was going to the French colonies of the day,
