A beautiful long entrepreneurial history
The history of Loca Service does not belong only to the past. It expresses who we are today and what we plan to be and do tomorrow. It tells what makes our deepest identity: the entrepreneurial spirit, the spirit of innovation and team spirit that animate everyday our CEO, Aurélien BOUVE, and who are our best assets to continue the adventure with the same energy. Through our history since 1981, emerges the story of a company that has remained true to itself, whilst reinventing itself constantly to increasingly support its customers.
100% family business - founder Pascal BOUVE - CEO Aurélien BOUVE
1981
- Creation of the company SAS Bouve in northern France, on the site of Bouvines (59 - Nord)
- Activity : After Sales Service and maintenance for food traders
1985
- Installation on the area of a national interest market MIN (National interest market) of Lomme (59 - Nord), the big Lille market which is the agrifood reference in the north of Paris and the 2nd National Interest Market after Rungis.
- Adding a trading business
1989
- Rental business starts with the shopping centre Auchan V2 Villeneuve d'Ascq (59 - Nord)
1990
- Adding rental activity of refrigerated displays to the large and medium / sized food retail stores
1995
- SARL BOUVE - Loca Service was born in November 1995
2001
- Installation on La Bassée (1st agency Loca Service), near Lille, where the company focuses its activity only on the rental business.
- Creating computer software dedicated to renting and monitoring of the refrigerated displays : LocaSpé
- Loca Service imposes itself on the national renting market.
2003
- Opening of the 2nd agency Avignon (Vaucluse - 84) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
2006
- Opening of the 3rd agency in Bordeaux (Gironde - 33) in the Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes region
2007
- Aurelien BOUVE became Head of R&D (Research & Development)
2008
- Creation of our refrigerated island Abyss, specifically for the large and medium/sized retail stores rental market.
- Opening of the 4th Agency : Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) in the Eastern big region (Alsace-Lorraine-Champagne-Ardenne).
2009
- Creating a structure dedicated to the manufacture of refrigerated displays cases and 5th Loca Service Agency (based in Portugal)
- Opening of the 6th Agency: Paris West (78) in the Île-de-France region
2011
- Opening the 7th agency in Bretagne, Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine - 35)
2012
- Opening of the 8th agency in the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon (Rhone - 69)
- Opening of the 9th Agency: Paris East (77) in the Ile-de-France Croissy Beaubourg
2015
- Handover between generations co-management Pascal and Aurélien BOUVE
2016
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Opening of the 10th agency in the region Centre-Loire Valley in Orléans (Loiret - 45)
2017
- Opening of our 11th agency in the Occitania region in Carcassonne (Aude - 11) enabling Loca Service to have 50,000m² of warehouses in Europe dedicated to advanced logistics