For our female month, we are hosting Guilaine Fourcand, owner and Director of production at Fancy, a pastry and catering company that has been serving the Haitian community for almost 40 years.
Fancy
Owner and Production Director
Guilaine Fourcand is the Owner and Production Director of Fancy Patisserie, a pastry, bakery and catering company based in Haiti.
She has joined the company when she was a little girl with her aunt back in 1979.
She originally studied children Psychology at University Quisqueya and have pursued further studies in Porto Rico at the Porto Rico Universidad Inter Americana and some ot…
Guilaine Fourcand is the Owner and Production Director of Fancy Patisserie, a pastry, bakery and catering company based in Haiti.
She has joined the company when she was a little girl with her aunt back in 1979.
She originally studied children Psychology at University Quisqueya and have pursued further studies in Porto Rico at the Porto Rico Universidad Inter Americana and some other focused bakeries classes at Villa El Senorial. For her, the best way of learning has been the internet through Instagram. YouTube, Pinterest etc. and her hunger to innovate and dare to try things out.
She has now been managing the company for 10 years and have built around her a family with some of her oldest employees.
Guilaine is also a mom of two children and is a passionate of pastry and foods.
Fancy has 30+ direct employees and almost closed after the 2010 earthquake. Thanks to an insurance, they were able to bounce back slowly and fully recovered with a new bought building in Delmas.
Fancy offers; Cakes, appetizers, pastries and catering services. Fancy is known for its originality, its uniqueness and its commitment to stay close to the traditional menus and by keeping products as bio as possible.
Fancy is located at 510, autoroute of Delmas, at the angle of Delmas 64.
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