Ricardo is an independent French family-owned group. Its ambition is to develop the French art of coffee by bringing together, around a unique entrepreneurial project, a community of roasting houses and companies with strong identities.
Ricardo unites its coffee and tea houses around shared values, enabling each to express the originality of its project while ensuring that it is associated with a responsible approach.
The Ricardo Group is also the Act&Respect Collective, a group of independent SMEs (including Lobodis and La Route des Comptoirs) whose mission is to explore new ways of doing business and innovating. With a shared vision of tomorrow's enterprise, this Collectif, guided by the Act&Respect societal approach, is boldly projecting itself into the future.
The women and men who make up the Ricardo mosaic nurture this vision and preserve the heritage of precious know-how. Their combined talents also create and shape those of tomorrow.
The French art of coffee
Our companies provide concrete and daily support so that the Café moments last and become an art of living both in the bistro and at home
Responsible entrepreneurship
Our companies are committed to improving their practices, to doing so over the long term with strong objectives and to building a societal responsibility approach that includes their ecosystem
Know-how and transmission
- Our companies share complementary know-how and a taste for innovation; they ensure the generational transmission of our coffee professions and create those of tomorrow
The dynamics and development of territories
- Our companies are located in the heart of the different regions of France. Attentive to their role as socio-economic players, they are committed to supporting the dynamics and initiatives of their territories
The Ricardo Group's values:
The entrepreneurial spirit
We mobilise our skills to satisfy our customers, innovate and take on new challenges while preserving know-how. The companies that make up Ricardo know how to work together to create synergies.
Proximity
We build strong and lasting relationships with our employees, customers, coffee producers and suppliers. Being close to our stakeholders is cultivated every day.
Trust and passion
We listen to make and give confidence, we live our coffee business with passion and aim for excellence.
