Groupe Le Duff
Groupe Le Duff is a French restaurant conglomerate, with holdings in Europe and the Americas, consisting of over 1,310 restaurants and bakeries. It includes La Madeleine, Kamps, Mimi's Cafe, Pizza Del Arte, and Brioche Dorée. The company was founded in 1976, by Louis Le Duff, with the opening of the first Brioche Dorée in Brest, France. As of 2014, the company had 28,000 employees and sales of Euro 1.5 billion. Its headquarters are in Rennes, France. Le Duff America. Le Duff America operates the conglomerate's US restaurant chains. These consist primarily of Bruegger's, La  Madeleine Country French Café, Brioche Dorée, and Mimi's Cafe. Le Duff America is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It was formed following the acquisition of Bruegger's by Groupe Le Duff in 2011, at the time naming Bruegger's CEO James J. Greco and CEO of Groupe Le Duff's prior American operations, Claude Bergeron, as co-CEOs of Le Duff America. Le Duff sold Bruegger's in 2017 to Caribou Coffee. In 2018, MTY Food Group announced the acquisition of Timothy's World Coffee along with Mmmuffins from Le Duff America.