DOCKS LYONNAIS - circa 1950 Double-sided enamelled plaque. Good condition, chips to edges. Enamelling: "émaillerie Alsacienne de Strasbourg" . The adventure began in 1835 with Claude Gontard, who founded and then passed on to his son François-Antoine Gontard the "Manufacture de Chaussures Cousues et Rivées - Gontard Ainé & ses fils" established in Lyon. In 1907, Albin and Louis acquired the Société des Docks Lyonnais. Under their impetus, the latter was rapidly transformed into a "multi-branch food capitalist company". In the 1950s, Albert Gontard, a visionary, created "supermarket" format brands, while his son developed the Carrefour brand. Today, the family company is a legal structure dedicated to real estate and financial services. (Source: oryx-reim.com