Michaud is the European leader with 200,000 tonnes of honey exported per year. It has a state-of-the-art laboratory with a nuclear magnetic resonance machine. A team of 12 scientists checks that the honey for sale is of good quality and not polluted by antibiotics or insecticides. By analyzing the pollen, it is also a question of checking the French origin of the nectar. The director of the laboratory, Patricia BEAUNE, explains the whole process and the work done in the research laboratory.
The brand "Honeymoon" was created by Michaud in 1920 in Béarn. The family business is the French leader and number 3 in Europe in the market of honey products. It manages part of the honey production, with its 4,500 hives spread across the south of France, but also the packaging and marketing of French honey, but also imported products. Since 1995, production has fallen, due to climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss and new insecticides, including Gaucho and Regent. In the company’s laboratory, all the honeys are analysed on arrival to check their quality. Bernard SAUBOT, Agricultural Development Director and Monique MORLOT, Quality Control Manager explain.
The European beekeepers' congress opens in Agen against a backdrop of crisis in the sector, threatened by pesticides and Asian hornets. The world’s second largest producer of honey, Michaud, has to source the raw material from abroad. Gan’s family business employs 200 people and exports 19,000 tonnes of honey around the world. The company’s director, Vincent MICHAUD, is worried about the future of the French sector.
The Honeymoon Foundation was created by Vincent MICHAUD to save the French bee and revive honey production. France is the biggest consumer of pesticides. He explains that "the bee is the sentinel of the environment". The company is the European leader in the honey market. Patricia BEAUNE, head of the laboratory explains her work: guarantee the purity of natural honey,
Report dedicated to the company Michaud, world leader in the sale of honey. The company also sells maple syrup. Visit a site that analyzes honey and maple syrup for purity. Interviews with Vincent Michaud, President and CEO Famille Michaud Apiculteurs, Patricia BEAUNE, Quality Director Famille Michaud Apiculteurs.
The Béarn-based company Michaud, the world’s leading honey producer, employs 220 people and sells 35,000 jars of honey per year. Vincent MICHAUD, President and CEO Famille Michaud, wants to alert the public authorities about the high mortality of bees due to pesticides, yet France is the second largest user of pesticides in the world. 'When the bee dies, it means there are other species that die too. And the man is also affected". Honey production has been divided by 3 in 20 years. The company began producing maple syrup purchased in Canada, but the French administration banned its export to certain countries.
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