Michel Ducros (born 1949) is a French entrepreneur at the head of the French delicatessen company Fauchon, and yacht services company Monaco Marine. He is the former chairman and CEO of Ducros, a family business based on spices and mixed herbs, and still invest in several international companies. Early life Born in 1949 in Kehl, southwest Germany, from a father officer in the French army and a mother teacher, Michel Ducros was raised in Buis-les-Baronnies, a village in the Drome region of the southeast of France, where his grandfather harvested lime-tree leaves and lavender, used in herbalism. In 1963 his father Gilbert Ducros, and his uncle Marc Ducros, founded the eponymous family business that sold spices and mixed aromatic herbs. Career path At Ducros Company (1971 to 1992) After he graduated from college in Paris, Ducros joined the family business in 1971, where he was successively sales manager, and then marketing director between 1971 and 1985, and launched the first TV advertising campaign of the company. He created foreign branches in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and Canada, and the company became the first spices brand in Europe. He became chairman of the company in 1986, until the sale of the Ducros company in 1992 to the Italian group Ferruzzi. He created in 1976 the brand Vahiné, which became within ten years the first brand of ingredients for home-made pastry, and in 1981 the brand La Tisanière, the first French brand for herbal tea. At Monaco Marine (since 1995) Passionate sailor and dissatisfied with artisanal maintenance services, Ducros founded the company Monaco Marine in 1995, through the acquisition of a small company "PowerBoat" servicing yachts in the port of Monaco, which offered a marina service for berths, winter storage, and maintenance. Monaco Marine developed a network of shipyards in Saint Laurent du Var, Beaulieu sur Mer, Antibes and Cogolin, all in the south of France. He entered in 2002 into a partnership with the public company of the port of La Ciotat to build the largest dry paint shed in Europe and a maintenance and refit network for mega-yachting industry, inaugurated in September 2007. In 2012, Monaco Marine acquired a long-standing family shipyard in the region based in Antibes. Monaco Marine launched in 2016 a new shipyard in La Seyne, in the Toulon bay, that should open in September 2017. Michel Ducros developed steadily Monaco Marine over the years : Monaco