Trapon Family

It was Mr. Jeangeorges, great-grandfather of William Trapon, who ventured into the wild mushroom trade as early as 1949, shortly after the war. With his rig at the time—a cart pulled by a donkey—he traveled through the villages of Livradois Forez to buy dried porcini mushrooms when he first started out. Once the porcini season was over, he delivered his goods to customers using his Citroën Tube.

William Trapon's grandmother also followed in her father's footsteps. She began working with new varieties of fresh wild mushrooms such as fresh chanterelles, fresh porcini, fresh pine morels, fresh fairy ring mushrooms, fresh St. George's mushrooms, fresh horn of plenty mushrooms, and others..

In the early 1970s, it was Jean-Pierre and Joëlle Trapon (son-in-law and daughter of Jacqueline and Paul Bravard) who took over the reins. They made their initial forays into exports with fresh porcini mushrooms shipped to Italy, fresh chanterelles to Switzerland, and fresh morels to Japan, among others.

In the 1990s, William Trapon and his wife joined the company and launched sales to major retail chains. Fresh porcini, fresh chanterelles, fresh horn of plenty mushrooms, fresh hedgehog mushrooms, wild asparagus, and other fresh wild berries were packaged in trays of 250 grams or in boxes of 1 and 3 kilograms.

In 2006, William and Cécile Trapon moved into the current premises of the nearly 3,000 square meter company. Over the years, they have been joined by a progressively younger and dynamic team dedicated to serving their customers better.

This year marks 70 years since William Trapon's family began shipping fresh wild mushrooms worldwide. The company now ships fresh wild mushrooms to all continents, from Lyon to Bordeaux, Brussels to Milan, Seattle to Singapore, Dubai to Tokyo, and Johannesburg to Sydney.