Chereau

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 14 official records from 10 official sources are on file. 6 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.

Facts on file, each with its evidence type

• First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 1998. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-21. Internet Archive (Wayback)
• Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. effective since 2026-07-08. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• An environmental inspector visited the plant, on the official record (record type: facility-inspected) [official record; status green] Inspected 2026-06-03. An inspector came to the site on that date, so the site existed then and was not only licensed on paper. The visit itself does not show what was being made there. checked 2026-08-20. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• EU customs identifier (EORI) active (record type: export-registered-eori) [official record; status green] An EORI number identifies the company to EU customs for imports, exports and transit. A valid number does not show that any shipment took place and is not a licence to export a particular product. checked 2026-08-26. EU EORI validation (European Commission)
• Street address on file in the state register (record type: registered-establishment) [official record; status green] The place of business the company itself declared when it registered. The register records the declaration; it does not inspect the site or show that anything is made there. effective since 2026-08-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
• On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 2003. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. checked 2026-08-31. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• inspection-follow-up (record type: inspection-follow-up) [official record; status amber] Inspection 2026-06-03: 5 control points, 1 with follow-up: Entretien des réseaux: proposed Demande d'action corrective (request for corrective action), 3 mois. The inspector checked each regulatory point and wrote down which ones need a follow-up. A request for documents is an open question, not a proven breach; the report does not say how it was resolved later. checked 2026-10-13. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• Places goods on the market (national producer register) (record type: places-goods-on-market; this record does not by itself establish manufacturing) [official record; status green] A state register lists this company as placing these goods on the market, as their maker or importer. By itself it does not show who makes them. checked 2026-09-07. Registre national des producteurs (ADEME/SYDEREP), France
• No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-08-26. OpenSanctions
• Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-26. Domain registry record
• Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-26. Mail server of the company domain
• No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-08-26. OpenSanctions
• Listed in the national industrial register as an industrial site (record type: industrial-site-registered) [official record; status green] The country's industrial register lists this company as holding a working industrial establishment, with its own registry number and activity code. A trading office does not get one. Open the source for the entry. effective since 2024-12-31. IREP, French register of pollutant releases and waste (declared by the operator)
• Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-10-03. SIREN published in the company's own legal notice, confirmed in the French business register
• The inspection report describes the site: La société Chereau est spécialisée dans la conception et la fabrication de véhicules frigorifiques poids-lourds. Les activités sont réparties sur deux sites, l'un à Ducey (objet de la présente inspection), l'autre à Avranches. Les deux sites représentent environ un millier d'emplois. La capacité de production est d'environ 82 véhicules par semaine, soit environ 4 200 véhicules produits par an. L'entreprise réalise également les chassis de semi-remorque (essieux et pneus en externe). (record type: facility-activity-described) [official record; status green] The inspection report describes the site: La société Chereau est spécialisée dans la conception et la fabrication de véhicules frigorifiques poids-lourds. Les activités sont réparties sur deux sites, l'un à Ducey (objet de la présente inspection), l'autre à Avranches. Les deux sites représentent environ un millier d'emplois. La capacité de production est d'environ 82 véhicules par semaine, soit environ 4 200 véhicules produits par an. L'entreprise réalise également les chassis de semi-remorque (essieux et pneus en externe).. A state inspector wrote this after standing on the site, so it describes what the plant actually does, not what its own website claims. checked 2026-10-13. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Indicates the company is not dissolved or winding down. checked 2026-08-31. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• Mentioned in independent media (record type: media-mention) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The press has written about it. A fact, not an endorsement. checked 2026-07-18. The Pharma Letter
• financials-published (record type: financials-published) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2024: revenue €239.1M, profit €8.4M. Lets you size the supplier against your own volume: the figure comes from accounts filed with the state, not from a claim on a website. effective since 2024-12-31. INPI/BCE published accounts (data.economie.gouv.fr)
• Listed in a source registry (record type: listed-in-registry) [official record; status amber] Listed in LORIENT; entry number 529223885. Matched to this company by name only; no second anchor confirms it is the same legal entity.. Found in a named public register, not only on its own website. checked 2026-08-26. BRIS, EU business registers interconnection (e-justice.europa.eu)
• Registered business units on file (record type: registered-units) [official record; status green] 3 active business units of 3 on the register, 2 with a manufacturing activity code. The register lists how many sites the company runs. effective since 2026-10-01. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)

Registered business units

3 active and 0 closed units in INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement); 2 active units carry a manufacturing activity code (section C of the activity classification). The activity code is what the register records for each site, not a finding that goods are made there.

• ZI LE DOMAINE 50220 DUCEY-LES CHERIS: SIRET 45037234700010, active, head office, manufacturing activity code 29.20Z (Fabrication de carrosseries et remorques), opened 2003-10-01, staff 500-999 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 52 BOULEVARD DU LUXEMBOURG 50300 LE VAL-SAINT-PERE: SIRET 45037234700028, active, manufacturing activity code 29.20Z (Fabrication de carrosseries et remorques), opened 2003-10-01, staff 250-499 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• SECTEUR EST PARC DE LA BAIE 50300 AVRANCHES: SIRET 45037234700036, active, activity code 52.10B (Entreposage et stockage non frigorifique), opened 2017-10-24, staff 6-9 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)

Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us

• ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch

Import rules for these goods

Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories Industrial Machinery, Frozen & Chilled Food: neither the company's own description nor an official activity code shows that its own goods are of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.

Check independently

Before a first order, ask for the ISO 9001, Quality Management certificate number, its holder and the products it covers.

• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)