AGRO PARIS BOURSE (General Union of the Paris Commodities Exchange)
is an association composed of all French and European cereal industry.
Its role is to facilitate transactions, dialogue and the exchange of information between the various leading players in the grain sector (cereals, oilseeds and their derivatives), that it seeks to bring together by organising regular professional forums.
Thanks to its cross-professional positioning between the different business lines of the sector, the association represents forty professions involved not only in collecting grain, but also in its control, quality, transport, storage, handling, plant protection products, fertilizers and financial management.
Located at the very place of the former Wheat Market of the City of Paris, AGRO PARIS BOURSE therefore continues the mission of the Commodities Exchange of Paris, involved in the grain trade for 160 years.
Agro Paris Bourse is made up of 400 companies representing more than 1,000 members in France and around the world.
Présentation
AGRO PARIS BOURSE IN A FEW FIGURES
+100 events I
+1000 members I
3 exchanges per year I
+160 years of existence
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Baudouin DELFORGE
President of the CHAMBRE ARBITRALE INTERNATIONALE DE PARIS
Vice-presidents
Jean-Loïc BEGUE-TURON Head of Commodities - CACEIS
Joel Ratel Managing Director - NORD CEREALES
Treasurer
Joel Ratel Managing Director - NORD CEREALES
Adjunct treasurer
Laurent VITTOZ Managing Director - VALFRANCE
Members
Christophe ARMBRUSTER
Vice-president - BOURSE DE STRASBOURG
Xavier BOURBON
PDG - CABINET BOURBON
Frédéric DUROUCHOUX
Sales director - CONTROL UNION INSPECTIONS
Manuel GABORIEAU
Sales representative - HAROPA
Thibault GUILBERT
Broker - INTER COURTAGE
Franck LOSCHI
Grain sales director - COOPERATIVE AGRICOLE LORRAINE
Honorary Members
Alain GERARD
Henry-Jean PETIT
Luc PITON
Alain ROUSSEAUX
Claude VAILLANT
History of Agro Paris Bourse
Located in the heart of Paris on the site of the former Grain Exchange, mythical venue and the city’s agricultural lung, the General Union has been the guarantor, for nearly 160 years, of Paris Commodities Exchange’s mission dedicated to Grain Trade.
Its activity never ceased to evolve since 1854 to promote agricultural modernisation and Grain Trade: from the futures contract traded at auction until the late 1980’s, to the Exchange sessions today organised several times a year, to ultimately international meetings gathering grain sector’s leaders.
