Ets Recapet was a French food company based in Sauveterre-de-Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), known for its canned meat, poultry, game and produce products. The company operated under the legal name Ets RECAPET, a société à responsabilité limitée registered at Rue du Temple, 64390 Sauveterre de Bearn, France, with Siren number 403252596 [1]. The conserverie was acquired in 1995 by CCA Périgord, which had shortly before purchased the Landes-based foie gras company Muller [2]. After the takeover, the operation became known as conserverie Laforest of the CCA group [3]. The former industrial buildings in Sauveterre-de-Béarn remain a landmark of the town’s industrial past [4].
Design and History
Ets Recapet registered the trademark TANTE EUGENIE with the French trademark office INPI. The filing was made by Ets RECAPET, with Cabinet FROMAGEAU acting as the trademark attorney. The trademark’s expected expiration date was recorded as 9 April 2006 [1]. The trademark covered a range of food products including meat extracts, preserved, dried or cooked fruits and vegetables, and canned meat, fish, poultry and game [1].
No reliable documentation has been found confirming that Raymond Loewy or his agency CEI (Compagnie de l’Esthétique Industrielle) designed a logo for Ets Recapet in 1966. While Loewy’s Paris office, CEI, did produce European logo projects during that period, including an updated fir tree trademark for the Dutch supermarket chain SPAR in the late 1960s [5], no source links Loewy or CEI to this specific company. Claims of a 1966 Loewy-designed Recapet logo should therefore be treated as unverified.
Meaning and Symbolism
Because no verified visual representation of an Ets Recapet logo has been located in the available research, and no documented account of its symbolism or design intent exists, no claims about the mark’s meaning can be made with confidence.
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