Our group
Grapes, sites and people
UDM is composed of 6 production sites and 6 subsidiaries.
We are leaders in the processing and marketing of by-products of vine. Our purpose is to support the winegrowing sector. The values of cooperation drive our efforts, and it is with pride and responsibility that we give a “second life” to our grapes.
Union des distilleries
de la Méditerranée
Our 6 sites are organized around a succession of workshops that treat the products and by-products of vine in order to extract different elements: alcohol, calcium tartrate, seeds, pulp, compost and liquid fertilizers.
Commercial subsidiaries
![sucren entreprise](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/sucren-entreprise.jpg)
Marketing of grape sugar, polyphenols, tannins, anthocyanins; Marketing of brandies, vinegar production.
![logo distillerie du beaujolais](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/logo-distillerie-du-beaujolais.jpg)
Production of distilled alcoholic beverages and grape by-products.
![logo raisinor](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/logo-raisinor.png)
Raisinor Pépin: Marketing of seeds for the production of grape seed oil.
Raisinor Alcohol: Marketing of industrial alcohol, bio-ethanol and ED95 through its partner BAE (Dyneff).
![](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/union-francaise-alcools-brandies.png)
Marketing, aging and refining brandy alcohol.
![unit logo](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/unit.jpg)
Marketing of calcium tartrate products and derived products.
Key figures
![marcs de raisin](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/marcs-de-raisin-150x150.png)
200 000
tons of grape marc collected
![france](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/france-150x150.png)
22 counties
in collection area
![udm vin](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/udm-vin-150x150.png)
150 000 Hl of wine lees collected
100 000 Hl of wines collected
![raisin udm](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/raisin-udm-150x150.png)
20%
French wine production
![salaries udm](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/salaries-udm-150x150.png)
170 employees
![](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/euros-150x150.png)
50 Million euros
in consolidated sales
![caves udm](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/caves-udm-150x150.png)
170 cooperatives wineries
6000 private wineries
![distillery vineyards grouping grouping](https://www.groupeudm.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/distiellerie-vignobles-groupement-1024x354.jpg)
Our certifications
In a proactive approach, we seek to satisfy the expectations of our members and our customers by adapting our processes and our organization to the multiple requirements of our company.
ECOCERT Certification: Organic farming certification for neutral alcohols, composts, liquid fertilizer, rectified concentrated musts.
Referenced input usable in BIO: compost
KOSHER Certification: Anthocyanins , pholyphenols and tannins of grape skin
HALAL certification: Anthocyanins, pholyphenols and tannins, and grape seed
Team
expertise
AND SYNERGY
Centralized on our core business, UDM is organized on a transversal model:
- Spirit of collaboration
- Participatory spirit: our projects are managed by a multi-disciplinary team
- Everyone finds their place in their field of competence
- The Director at the head of each site has autonomy to manage their sector in the interest of the company and its members
- The Managing Director coordinates the group’s activities and strategy in line with the orientations decided by the Board of Directors.
Research &
development
Our goal is to promote all winemaking by-products through close collaboration with several regional and national research institutes in order to offer our customers new products derived from grapes and to ensure optimum quality.
- Development of new processes of extraction and implementation of our products for new markets in agribusiness, parapharmacy, cosmetics and other industries.
- Actor in the improvement and optimization of our processes within the framework of Sustainable Development.
- Collaboration on research on the protective effects of molecules in the polyphenol family on human health.
- Research on the quality and physical stability of anthocyanins to optimize their coloring power.
- Adaptation of our know-how to other products derived from agriculture to provide new opportunities.