“C’est qui le patron?” (CQLP) is a brand on fire. It’s not the kind of fire that Nicolas Chabanne has any intention of putting out. The business that he founded in 2016 has sold over 282 million products and now has 34 product references contributing to the sustainability of over 3,000 producer families. I began our recent conversation by asking Chabanne about his upbringing to get a better sense of his early driving forces. The early years Chabanne was born in Moulins, in the centre of France, in 1969 but at a young age, he moved with his parents to…

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