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What's your best professional achievement?
The transfer in 1990 of 30% of the shares of Groupe EMC (Potasses d'Alsace) Alsatian Potash, and their re-purchase 10 years later.

What man has influenced you most?
My father Jacques, because although he didn't use to be supported as we are today, he was able to make it alone.

What is your favourite product?
I have got to mention two of them: VEGETHUMUS because of its effectiveness and lastingness, and OSIRYL for its future.

What's do you regret most?
Time, which does fly.

What would you say of Frayssinet's development over the last 27 years?
That we've evolved from a pretty nice grocery store to a hypermarket without losing the human and economic fundamentals of a small company.

What's your vision of the future?
If we stay our course, without trouble, because we are now on the growth market of SUSTAINABILITY. The world's top authorities major concern today is to be able to safely feed tomorrow's population.

What's your favourite saying ?
" Don't stay above but with " as Montesquieu used to say.

How would you best qualify Frayssinet ?
Proportionate, reliable, efficient.

How would you sum up these 27 years' activity?
Without baloney, I'll reply it's been a beautiful human adventure during which I mixed work with elation and tonnage grew from 9000 to 76000 tons.

What products in your company are promised to steady growth?
If we stick to the idea of a growth in global needs for food, OSIRYL, a stimulator of root development. Our liquid products and antioxidants will take up our company just another step higher. On the export market but also on the domestic market we benefit from wide connections. A new cycle has started; we've been recording very encouraging indicators.

Will there soon be a 6th generation in the company?
Nothing has been planned yet but everything's possible because Thierry and myself have got 5 boys and 2 girls.

An interview with Luc Frayssinet