Historical

Originally from Losmont, a small village in Auvergne, the Gouttes bought or bartered old cotton and linen rags to then deliver them to the Richard-de-Bas paper mill in Ambert. Forced to search further and further for the necessary raw material, Antoine Goutte elder arrived in Lausanne in 1883 and decided to stay in Switzerland. He then exercised a mixed activity of bougnat (coal merchant) in winter and rag picker in summer. At that time, the recovery mainly focused on scrap metal, non-ferrous metals, rags, as well as bones, bristles from pigs and skins from rabbits.

Subsequently, Antoine elder left Lausanne in 1885 to settle and set up on his own in Neuchâtel. Having kept French nationality, he was called up to perform his military service. So he sent for his younger brother, also called Antoine, to run his business. On his return from France, Antoine the elder handed over the business to his younger brother and moved to Payerne. Antoine elder had children including Emile who had two sons, René and Marcel. René took over the Payerne business at the end of the 1950s and his brother Marcel that of a cousin, waste collector in Lausanne, at the beginning of the 1960s. Since then, Gilles Goutte (Marcel's son) has taken the destiny of the two in hand. companies.

This is how, for over a century, the name Goutte has been synonymous with recovery in Broye, the canton of Vaud and in French-speaking Switzerland.