Première Moisson is a chain of artisanal bakeries in Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

Canada

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. It focuses on high-quality French bread

Bread

Bread is a staple food prepared by cooking a dough of flour and water and often additional ingredients. Doughs are usually baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed , fried , or baked on an unoiled frying pan . It may be leavened or unleavened...

s and pastries

Pastry

Pastry is the name given to various kinds of baked products made from ingredients such as flour, sugar, milk, butter, shortening, baking powder and/or eggs. Small cakes, tarts and other sweet baked products are called "pastries."...

. The company follows a model whereby various dough

Dough

Dough is a paste made out of any cereals or leguminous crops by mixing flour with a small amount of water and/or other liquid. This process is a precursor to making a wide variety of foodstuffs, particularly breads and bread-based items , flatbreads, noodles, pastry, and similar items)...

s are prepared in a central facility and then distributed to local bakeries, where they are finalized and baked on demand in order to achieve the highest freshness and quality. The company was founded in 1992 in Vaudreuil-Dorion, where it still maintains various large-scale production facilities, and has since remained a family business.

The Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 metropolitan area constitutes its biggest area of business, with a total of 13 bakeries, of which 10 are co-ownership

Co-ownership

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