About

LACOTE was founded in 1986 after its founder Egidio Siena, an expert in beauty

treatments and a great lover of the sea, visited the port of Brest in Brittany. He

was immediately struck by two things: the imposing lighthouse that dominates the

landscape and an incredible line-up of boats, similar to common fishing boats, full

of seaweed. He discovered that local fishermen consider seaweed as precious as fishes

and mollusks; that is why every year since 1600, at the beginning of the summer, they

collect seaweed from the seabed with a tool called “scoubidou” as well as farmers

harvest wheat every year. Then seaweed is taken ashore and naturally dried in the sun

and wind.