{"id":181700,"date":"2025-11-12T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/?p=181700"},"modified":"2025-11-10T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:07:11","slug":"why-did-lenotre-have-to-downsize-its-french-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luxus-plus.com\/en\/why-did-lenotre-have-to-downsize-its-french-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Len\u00f4tre have to downsize its French operations? "},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the beginning of 2025, the fine food retailer has closed three of its dozen stores, mainly based in Paris. Twenty years ago, Len\u00f4tre acquired nine stores from Fauchon. But the latter brand, which had been struggling, is now in the process of relaunching itself. And to stay in the race in a buoyant but highly competitive market, Len\u00f4tre will also have to reinvent itself…<\/h4>\n

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Traditional French delicatessens are not out of the woods yet.<\/p>\n

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Following the respective sales last year of Fauchon and the high-end caterer Dalloyau<\/b> to the Galapagos<\/b> and Potel & Chabot (a subsidiary of Accor)<\/b> groups, it is now Len\u00f4tre<\/b>‘s turn to bear the brunt of a buoyant but highly competitive market.<\/p>\n

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Three closures<\/h2>\n

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Since the beginning of the year, the brand founded in 1957 by pastry chef Gaston Len\u00f4tre, a member of the Comit\u00e9 Colbert and certified as an Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company), has quietly closed three of its eleven French stores.<\/b><\/p>\n

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