Sunshine Corp SAS was founded on 14 April 2021 in the Joliette district of Marseille. It was created just as the world reopened after Covid: during the lockdowns, thousands of French people rediscovered coffee at home, cut off from their neighbourhood caf\u00e9 or their usual roaster. Many developed a taste for better quality without always knowing where to find it or how to choose it.<\/p>\n
Maison Soleil was born from that insight: a monthly subscription delivering exceptional coffee to your door, along with everything you need to gradually become an enlightened enthusiast.<\/p>\n
The name blends two intentions. Maison<\/em> for artisan roots and the daily moment of comfort. Soleil<\/em> for the memory of coffee’s origins, almost all located along the sun-drenched tropical belt, and for the warmth we want to pass on.<\/p>\n The head office is in Marseille, a nod to France’s first historic port for coffee imports and roasting, open to trade flows from West and Central Africa.<\/p>\n Aged 34 when Maison Soleil was founded, L\u00e9a is a graduate of EM Lyon. She spent seven years in fashion e-commerce, where she ran the CRM and subscription business of a French online retailer. In 2020, she decided to leave her job to devote herself to a project combining responsible consumption, customer relationships and a physical product.<\/p>\n At Maison Soleil, L\u00e9a leads platform strategy, the subscription model and the use of customer data. She is the guardian of the sign-up experience, customer loyalty and the clarity of the offer.<\/p>\n Thomas was 41 when the company was founded. Trained as a roaster in Trieste, Italy, he went on to become a certified Q Grader, the Specialty Coffee Association’s tasting standard. Before joining L\u00e9a on the Sunshine Corp project, he ran the roasting workshop of an artisan Parisian roastery for six years.<\/p>\n Thomas is responsible for selecting green lots, defining roast profiles and quality control. He is the one who signs off every origin before it joins the catalogue or the subscription.<\/p>\n Camille joined Sunshine Corp in January 2022, when the direct sourcing programme in French-speaking Africa took formal shape. She then became an associate co-founder. Aged 38, she previously spent six years as a raw materials buyer for a trading house based in Antwerp, with repeated assignments in Abidjan, Douala and Antananarivo. She speaks fluent French and English, along with some basic Dyula.<\/p>\n Camille manages the direct relationship with our five partner cooperatives. It is thanks to her network and her exacting standards that the first contract, with the Soleil du Cavally cooperative in C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, was signed as early as April 2021 \u2014 the very month the company was founded.<\/p>\n From day one, Maison Soleil chose to secure its supply through multi-year direct trade contracts rather than relying on the spot market. That choice, driven by Camille and endorsed by L\u00e9a and Thomas, proved decisive during the green coffee crises of 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n In 2022, the brand launched its B2B programme and built its presence in specialist and organic shops. In 2023, it diversified with cold brew. In 2024, it entered the capsule market through its only growing segment: compostable capsules. In 2025, it capitalised on its regulatory head start with the Direct Trade Africa campaign.<\/p>\n Today, Maison Soleil pursues its mission: making specialty coffee understandable and accessible by subscription, while paying producers fairly at origin.<\/p>\n From highland sun to your cup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" N\u00e9e \u00e0 Marseille au printemps 2021 Sunshine Corp SAS voit le jour le 14 avril 2021, dans le quartier de la Joliette, \u00e0 Marseille. La cr\u00e9ation intervient au moment de la r\u00e9ouverture post-Covid : pendant les confinements, des milliers de Fran\u00e7ais ont red\u00e9couvert le caf\u00e9 \u00e0 la maison, orphelins de leur bar de quartier ou […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaison-soleil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaison-soleil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaison-soleil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaison-soleil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamaison-soleil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamaison-soleil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamaison-soleil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe three founders<\/h2>\n
L\u00e9a Dumont \u2014 President and co-founder<\/h3>\n
Thomas Reinach \u2014 Head of Roasting and co-founder<\/h3>\n
Camille Vasseur \u2014 Head of Sourcing & Producer Relations<\/h3>\n
\nA trajectory rooted in the real world<\/h2>\n
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