de Buyer
The carbon steel pan everyone recommends as the honest alternative.
Status: Watchlist
- Founded
- 1830
- Website
- debuyer.com
- HQ
- France
- Manufacturing
- France
- Ownership type
- Conglomerate-owned
- Parent
- Groupe SEB
- Acquired
- 2025
- Status since
- 2026-07-13
Ownership
The family sold to Edify (Despature family holding) in 2015. Groupe SEB acquired La Brigade de Buyer (de Buyer, Sabatier license, 32 Dumas) in January 2025.
Why Watchlist
French production intact for now, but it now lives inside the same conglomerate as T-fal, during a restructuring that is closing plants. The trigger to watch is any move of Le Val-d'Ajol production.
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