About Gérard Bourgoin
Gérard Bourgoin (6 July 1939 – 2 March 2025) was a French businessman, sports chairman and politician. He was the president of the French football club AJ Auxerre from 24 May 2011 to 19 April 2013. == Career as a businessman == Gérard Bourgoin was born in Chailley in the department of Yonne, the son of a butcher. He began his training course with a CAP (Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle) in butchery and then in accounting. By 1966, he had created in his native village of Chailley his first poultry factory named La Chaillotine. The same year, the family company expanded to become one of the biggest French poultry groups. During the 1980s, La Chaillotine changed its name to BSA (Bourgoin SA), diversified and developed in the international field. With the buyout of several companies, BSA became the first worldwide leader of fresh poultry with 30% of the national production, 6,600 employees, 30 factories and a gross revenue of 6.5 billion francs. Faced to industrial and financial difficulties, the group that he managed with his daughter Corinne Bourgoin, named general director in 1996, was in bankruptcy in August 2000. It was dismantled and the successors share the group together.
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