"Mr. Besnier was very proud of how the company had grown and how the dairy industry had evolved during that period, so when he was in his eighties he decided to build a museum that would reflect that," says Luc Morelon, director of communications at Lactalis.

The André Besnier Lactopôle museum, built in 1999, a few years before Besnier passed away, is a legacy not only to the company he built, but also to the dairy industry as a whole.