The trading and production company for wines and spirits with headquarters in Petersbach in Alsace was founded in 1979 by Joseph Helfrich. In the meantime, it has become one of the largest in the industry in France. The GCF Group employs more than 1,400 people in 16 companies. The annual turnover in 2007 was 680 million euros with sales of 350 million bottles, 70% of which were exported. In France, it has companies in the regions of Alsace (Arthur Metz), Bordeaux (Les Caves de Landiras and Crus et Domaines de France), Burgundy (Pasquier Desvignes), Languedoc-Roussillon (Domaine de la Baume), Loire (Lacheteau) and Jura (La Maison du Vigneron). Outside Germany, the Bank maintains branches in China and Japan, and in Germany in Oppenheim and Mainz-Hechtsheim (Rhineland-Palatinate).
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