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At Isigny Sainte-Mère, we care deeply about history, our own, of course, but also that of our terroir and of the Men and Women who helped lay the foundations of our Cooperative over a century ago.
The history of our Cooperative began long before it was created!
It was Saturday 3 June 1909, and the weather was exceptionally cool that year. This did not, however, prevent a few dairy owners from the small village of Sainte-Mère-Église and from the Cotentin peninsula from coming together to find a way to enhance the value of the milk from a terroir they already knew to be so exceptional. That was how they laid the first stones and established the outlines of our Isigny Sainte-Mère Cooperative as we know it today.
That morning, 50 forward-thinking milk producers who truly believed in the project of the “Sainte-Mère-Église dairy cooperative”, did not hesitate for a moment to mortgage their farms in order to raise a capital of 60,000 francs. This capital was then invested in constructing a factory in Chef-du-Pont, near the Paris-Cherbourg railway line. The idea behind this project—transporting and selling dairy products to Paris—was already taking shape.
