Bad news : Death of Guy Cotten, the father of yellow raincoat

The founder in 1964 of the company that makes the famous yellow raincoat sailors known in the world, the French Guy Cotten, died Wednesday morning at the age of 77 years at the hospital in Quimper (western France) confirmed the company.

"It's been almost a year since he was sick," according to the company whose headquarters are in Trégunc south of Quimper.

A little yellow guy who spreads his arms: the emblem of waxed Cotten far beyond the borders of Brittany to become, in more than 45 years, the world's leading professional wax.

The yellow drysuit zipper and velcro is especially imposed on the U.S. market.

The company, which is headquartered in Trégunc, near Concarneau, employs over 300 people worldwide. It has a workshop Trégunc, but also in Madagascar.

With a turnover of 12 million euros in 2012, the company is headed for a decade by the daughter of Guy Cotten, Nadine Bertholom.

Before it passes the hand, you could still see the docks, trying to convince the world directly from fishing to adopt its new safety equipment, because "every man going overboard must regain its place on the boat. "

In 1996, his survival suit had allowed the French skippers Raphael Dinelli and Thierry Dubois to stay alive when they capsize in the Vendée Globe.

( French source AFP )