Product sourcing, seasonal gifting and project development for retail, hotels, restaurants and cafés.
From major retailers and premium hotels to coffee chains and independent restaurants, each channel needs a different product format, service approach and supply plan.
Department stores, hypermarkets, convenience stores and online gifting require different pack sizes and assortments. We discuss retail-ready products, seasonal gifts, display presentation and ongoing supply.
Shinsegae · Lotte · Hyundai Department Store / Hyundai Green Food · Galleria · Emart / SSG · 7-Eleven · Coupang · KakaoTalk Gift
For hotels and resorts, we discuss breakfast and buffet ingredients, restaurant pasta, lounge desserts, room gifts and seasonal collections with purchasing and culinary teams.
A Seoul hotel with restaurants, lounges and event spaces.
A hotel in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do.
A central Seoul luxury hotel with restaurants and lounge dining.
A Gangnam luxury hotel with restaurant and lounge experiences.
An airport-area luxury hotel serving international travel, meetings and dining.
A Jeju hotel and resort with restaurants and bars.
The Pangyo hotel offers buffet dining and a rooftop restaurant and bar.
Individually wrapped biscuits, confectionery and seasonal bakery work across coffee pairings, counter displays, takeaway and gifting. Group operators also review recipe fit, pack formats and store-level handling.
Seasonal confectionery, panettone, coffee pairings and ODM discussions; product, packaging and launch requirements are reviewed by project.
Confectionery, bulk formats and merchandise-related sourcing, with project-specific specifications and packaging.
A café and bakery proposal channel for menu development, ingredient review and sample testing.
A food-service, bakery and ingredient-distribution business; proposals are tailored to the intended operation and product requirements.
Chef-led restaurants, neighbourhood cafés and independent bakeries can discuss pasta and culinary ingredients, plated desserts, coffee-pairing confectionery and small retail assortments. We review samples, preparation, storage, order quantities and delivery conditions individually.
Names describe distribution, supply, proposal and review channels. Project stage, product scope and supply availability are confirmed individually; inclusion does not imply a group-wide supply contract.
We work directly with major retail channels and business customers, bringing product selection and commercial coordination closer to the market.
Direct business with department-store channels, including Shinsegae and Lotte, with products selected for food halls, gifting and curated retail.
Direct channel relationships for online product supply and digital gifting, including Coupang and KakaoTalk Gift.
Direct business in the convenience channel, including 7-Eleven, with product and merchandising proposals.
Direct engagement with Emart and hypermarket channels for product sourcing, supply and retail programmes.
Direct channel business for suitable products and category-specific retail proposals.
Direct collaboration with luxury and lifestyle brands on gifting, curated products and brand experiences.
Direct business for culinary ingredients, desserts, coffee pairings and seasonal gifting.
Commercial coordination for company gifts, seasonal assortments and tailored product projects.
Direct-business scope supplied by Douce France. Selected historical announcements are linked in the press archive.
A meeting of lifestyle and taste, featuring organic lemon olive oil. The supplied collaboration artwork presents a 100 ml bottle with K-Way packaging and identifies Douce France as the importer.
Discover how a distinctive food product can become part of a considered brand experience.
Discover on Instagram ↗Collaboration artwork supplied by Douce France.
Douce France produced event merchandise connected with Ferrari Roma and the La Nuova Dolce Vita theme. The cylindrical package shown here carries the Prancing Horse emblem and the event theme, illustrating a bespoke merchandise project for a brand event.
The 2019 company release documented a limited seasonal collaboration featuring five bakery products and room amenities at Park Hyatt Seoul.
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The 2018 company release announced Amaretti Virginia’s introduction at SSG Food Market Dogok. It described Douce France’s agreement with the Italian producer.
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Producer image · Angellozzi summer black trufflesIn 2020, Douce France discussed the use of its fresh truffles in Cornerstone’s autumn menu at Park Hyatt Seoul. The discussions covered producer storytelling materials, delivery timing and possible further orders according to usage and product condition. Angellozzi’s fresh truffle portfolio connects the producer’s story with the needs of professional kitchens.
Historical project · Current supply is discussed separately.
Discuss fresh truffles ↗See the historical Shinsegae Group announcement.
View details ↗KakaoTalk is a Korean messaging platform. KakaoTalk Gift is its integrated commerce service: users select gifts and send them to friends through chat messages, combining a personal message with a gift purchase.
For overseas brands, it is a channel built around gifting occasions such as birthdays, congratulations and expressions of thanks. Gift-ready packaging, an easy-to-understand product story and the intended recipient are central to a channel proposal.
Douce France works with the digital gifting channel. A 2019 public announcement documented the introduction of Thorntons chocolates through KakaoTalk Gift.
Our non-food business connects distinctive lifestyle and stationery products with specialist distribution channels in Korea and Japan.
Japanese distribution network for packaging, store supplies and stationery. Shimojima is presented here as a distributor, separately from our product brands.
Visit distributor website ↗Our Korean distribution network includes Kyobo Book Centre, ARTBOX and Office Depot, covering stationery, gifting, lifestyle products and office supplies.
Distribution relationships supplied by Douce France.
Alongside imported brands, Douce France has developed floral retail and flower-event projects, bringing fresh flowers and lifestyle merchandising into retail settings.
Douce France opened Fleur day at PK Mart in Starfield Hanam. The July 2020 announcement described fresh seasonal flowers, single stems, vases and decorative materials, with a concept of making flowers accessible in daily life.
Read the opening announcement ↗Floral stories on Instagram · @doucefrance.co ↗
Douce France’s floral project history includes flower events at Emart, SSG, Starfield and Kyobo Book Centre, as well as the launch of its flower-shop business.
Company-provided project history. Individual event dates and branches are not specified.
The July 2020 company announcement also reported the completion of a flower-industry support event at SSG Cheongdam.
Source: Newswire · 23 July 2020 ↗Woman’s Flower News covered the Fleur day opening at Starfield Hanam in July 2020, describing the new boutique shop and its everyday-flower concept.
Read the industry article · 24 July 2020 ↗View the activity record in News & Activities.
View details ↗Tell us your products, country and business needs. Specifications and supply terms are reviewed for each project.
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