OUR HISTORY

Mure & Peyrot

Mure & Peyrot are two families which, for over 115 years, have pooled their knowledge to keep the cutlery business going. The oldest branch of the two cutlery families is the Mure one. They are originally from Puy-de-Dôme close to Thiers, which is a worldwide-known town for its knives. It is the Durolle, a river with a significant drop, which allowed the installation of cutlery in Thiers from the Middle Ages.

CUTLERY IN THIERS

Cutlery in Thiers supported the population at the time, it is said that knives were made throughout Thiers. It was a collective production to which everyone contributed, like a subcontractor. There were the master cutlers who placed orders with craftsmen: the blacksmiths threshed the raw steel, the grinders worked the edge, the hideers took care of the horn of the handle and the polishers gave the blades their final shine.

THE FAMILY BUSINESS

The family business would therefore have started in 1905, with Antoine, then his son Claude Mure, both of them practicing the moulder trade : they shaped the edges of knives. Then Claude's sons, Antoine and Édouard Mure, succeeded to their father. Ernest Peyrot joined in this continuity between craftsmanship and industry when he married Edouard Mure's daughter, Odette. He modernized the business. Finally Jean-Claude Peyrot, engineer, took over the company in the 1980s with his wife. It has refocused on professional cutlery by implementing a new range: human safety at work.

TODAY

Today, Mure & Peyrot designs cutters for handling in warehouses. They are used to open packaging and packages. Its customers come from multiple sectors of the economy : automotive, aviation, security, food, bakery ... Since 1992, Mure & Peyrot has also specialized in the windshields industry. It was the meeting with Saint-Gobain, which is a French specialist in the production, transformation and distribution of materials that enabled the creation of this new range.

OVER THE YEARS, MURE & PEYROT HAS ADAPTED TO DEMAND AND INDUSTRIALS. FOR A FEW YEARS, THE COMPANY HAS OPENED TO THE CERAMIC BLADES SECTOR.

  1. 1904
  2. 1939
  3. 1950
  4. 1955
  5. 1983
  6. 1992
  7. 1995
  8. 1997
  9. 2013
  10. 2019
  11. 2020

  1. 1904

    September 9, 1904: Claude MURE buys for his two sons, Antoine and Édouard, the business of the Bathol and Huillard cutlery

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  2. 1939

    February 12, 1939: Odette Mure, the daughter of Édouard Mure, marries Ernest Peyrot.

  3. 1950

    January 30, 1950: The company becomes a LLC and takes the name of Mure & Peyrot.

  4. 1955

    September 21, 1955: Ernest Peyrot becomes the manager of Mure & Peyrot .

  5. 1983

    1983 : The Mure & Peyrot factory in La-Monnerie-Le-Montel goes bankrupt. Mure & Peyrot moves to Bordeaux.

    July 1983:  Publication of the first Mure & Peyrot catalog.

  6. 1992

    1992 : Start of the Windshield range.

  7. 1995

    1995 : Installation dans les locaux rue Roger-Touton, dans la zone d’activité Bordeaux Nord

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  8. 1997

    1997 : Arrival of Bernard Peyrot in the company as IT manager
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  9. 2013

    2013 : Préventica Innovation Prize for the Merlot knife.

  10. 2019

    2019 : creation of the Lugos knife and the EVO charger. Préventica Innovation Prize.

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  11. 2020

    2020 : marketing of a complete range based on ceramic blades

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