{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.lef-vre-utile","code":"thing-q779511","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q779511/","name":"Lefèvre-Utile","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Lefèvre-Utile, abbreviated LU, is a French biscuit manufacturer brand originating in the biscuit-making business founded in Nantes in 1846 by Jean-Romain Lefèvre and Pauline-Isabelle Utile.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise the Lefèvre-Utile biscuit brand, assess its history and product associations, and identify the parties authorised to use or represent it at a specified date.","scope":{"in":["The Lefèvre-Utile brand name, its LU abbreviation and evidence establishing their shared brand identity.","Brand origins, historical development and continuity across changes in ownership or operation.","Dated authority to use, license or commercially represent the brand.","Relationships to trademarks, product families and manufacturing establishments.","Evidence connecting brand history with business records, corporate histories and industrial heritage."],"out":["LU trademarks, logos and advertising artworks as independent intellectual property objects","Individual biscuit recipes, nutritional profiles, packages and production batches","Factories, the LU tower and other premises as physical or heritage assets","Biographies and private affairs of Lefèvre-Utile family members","The complete organisation and unrelated activities of successor parent groups"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Require an evidenced connection to the French biscuit brand originating in Nantes, since a shared surname or the initials LU alone do not establish identity.","Treat Lefèvre-Utile and LU as names of the brand while distinguishing that brand from the historical enterprise and later legal entities.","Record ownership and operating relationships with dates, since continuity of the brand does not establish legal continuity between businesses.","Distinguish the brand from family members, individual biscuit products and premises by recording each subject's relationship to it."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"enterprise-identity","name":"Lefèvre-Utile enterprise identity","description":"Resolve what the registry name denotes across historical business usage, legal records and LU branding.","layers":[{"id":"name-and-referent","name":"Name and referent","description":"Establish the organisational subject behind each Lefèvre-Utile or LU reference.","findings":[{"id":"dated-name-resolution","name":"Dated name resolution","description":"Record the referent, usage period and supporting document for each full name, abbreviation and trading style.","questions":[{"text":"Does this occurrence of Lefèvre-Utile or LU denote the enterprise, a legal company, the brand or a family member?","id":"dated-name-resolution-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which dated document establishes that the name refers to the organisation represented by vr.tr.lef-vre-utile?","id":"dated-name-resolution-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"registered-person","name":"Registered legal person","description":"Connect the historical business to verified legal entities without assuming one company persisted throughout.","findings":[{"id":"legal-person-identification","name":"Legal person identification","description":"Establish legal names, forms, jurisdictions and registration evidence for relevant periods.","questions":[{"text":"Which legal forms and register identifiers can be documented for entities trading as Lefèvre-Utile?","id":"legal-person-identification-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entity, if any, can currently act legally under the Lefèvre-Utile name, and what establishes that capacity?","id":"legal-person-identification-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"founding-control-and-succession","name":"Founding, control and succession","description":"Represent the enterprise's establishment, family control and later combinations as distinct events.","layers":[{"id":"founding-and-family-authority","name":"Founding and family authority","description":"Separate business origin, adoption of the combined name and the authority exercised by family members.","findings":[{"id":"founding-events-and-decision-rights","name":"Founding events and decision rights","description":"Record evidenced milestones and distinguish ownership, management and creative contributions.","questions":[{"text":"Which events establish the start of trading, adoption of Lefèvre-Utile and any later incorporation, rather than treating them as one founding date?","id":"founding-events-and-decision-rights-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What ownership or management authority did Jean-Romain Lefèvre, Pauline-Isabelle Utile and Louis Lefèvre-Utile each exercise, and during which periods?","id":"founding-events-and-decision-rights-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"group-entry-and-successors","name":"Group entry and successors","description":"Track combinations and transfers affecting the business without collapsing participants into one organisation.","findings":[{"id":"succession-mechanism","name":"Succession mechanism","description":"Classify each transition by what changed hands and whether the legal person survived.","questions":[{"text":"For the formation of LU-Brun et Associés and subsequent group transitions, did the event transfer shares, operations, trademarks or the legal entity itself?","id":"succession-mechanism-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which instruments establish the successor, effective date and destination of Lefèvre-Utile's assets and obligations?","id":"succession-mechanism-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"lu-commercial-authority","name":"LU commercial authority","description":"Connect the enterprise to LU branding, biscuit portfolios and powers of commercial representation.","layers":[{"id":"brand-rights","name":"Brand rights","description":"Distinguish historic brand use from documented ownership and licensing authority.","findings":[{"id":"lu-rights-holder","name":"LU rights holder","description":"Record territory-specific and dated rights relationships as links to separate trademark records.","questions":[{"text":"Which trademark records or transfer instruments connect Lefèvre-Utile and its successors to the LU name and marks?","id":"lu-rights-holder-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which rights holder or authorised representative must approve a proposed use of LU branding in the relevant territory?","id":"lu-rights-holder-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"biscuit-portfolio","name":"Biscuit portfolio","description":"Associate biscuit families with the enterprise while separating invention, acquisition, branding and distribution.","findings":[{"id":"product-family-attribution","name":"Product family attribution","description":"Record the specific relationship that makes a biscuit family part of the Lefèvre-Utile business history.","questions":[{"text":"For Petit Beurre and each other associated biscuit family, what evidence distinguishes creation by Lefèvre-Utile from later acquisition or marketing under LU?","id":"product-family-attribution-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"At the requested date and market, which entity is authorised to negotiate supply or distribution for that family?","id":"product-family-attribution-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"production-and-industrial-heritage","name":"Production and industrial heritage","description":"Connect manufacturing responsibility and preserved industrial evidence to the enterprise.","layers":[{"id":"operating-establishments","name":"Operating establishments","description":"Identify dated organisational relationships to biscuit production sites.","findings":[{"id":"factory-operator-accountability","name":"Factory operator accountability","description":"Separate premises ownership, manufacturing operation and responsibility for products made at a site.","questions":[{"text":"For each Nantes-area or other attributed factory, which entity owned the premises and which operated biscuit production during the period concerned?","id":"factory-operator-accountability-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which operator or responsible commercial entity should receive a product-quality or traceability enquiry for a specified product and production date?","id":"factory-operator-accountability-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"archives-and-reused-sites","name":"Archives and reused sites","description":"Use business archives and industrial heritage as evidence without making their custodians successors to the enterprise.","findings":[{"id":"heritage-evidence-boundary","name":"Heritage evidence boundary","description":"Record the provenance and custodianship of surviving records, advertising and premises separately from business continuity.","questions":[{"text":"Which archival collections contain company records capable of resolving Lefèvre-Utile's legal identity, governance and succession?","id":"heritage-evidence-boundary-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What relationship connects the former LU premises and Le Lieu Unique to the enterprise, and does any evidence establish more than site reuse or heritage association?","id":"heritage-evidence-boundary-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Lefèvre-Utile this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Lefèvre-Utile this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Lefèvre-Utile this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Lefèvre-Utile this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe the brand, its history and its products from published sources.","Report ingredients and allergens for its products from their labels."],"mustNot":["Impersonate an authorised brand representative or present unrelated products as products of the brand.","Misstate ingredients, allergens or origin of its products.","Make claims on the brand's behalf without authority."],"requiresHuman":["Contacting or acting for the brand's authorised representatives."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Honest labelling matters to people with allergies.","A long industrial history includes workers whose contribution deserves accurate telling."],"affectedParties":["Consumers with allergies","Workers","Local heritage communities in Nantes"]},"owners":{"steward":"The current brand rights holder and authorised brand managers.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q1252971","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.lef-vre-utile","Wikidata: Q779511 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q779511)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Identity represented: Historical enterprise; registered legal entity; trading name; brand reference; unresolved","Legal identity and jurisdiction: Legal name, legal form, register identifier, jurisdiction and effective interval; unknown where unverified","Organisational lifecycle: Independent operation; group subsidiary; merged; dissolved; historical reference only; unresolved, each dated","Ownership and control: Dated shareholder, controlling entity, ownership percentage where evidenced and control mechanism","LU rights relationship: Trademark proprietor; licensee; authorised manufacturer; distributor; historical user; unresolved, by territory and date","Manufacturing responsibility: Product family, establishment, operating entity, responsibility type and effective interval","Identity evidence status: Register-confirmed; archival evidence; corporate account only; conflicting evidence; unresolved"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Resolve a dated Lefèvre-Utile or LU reference to an enterprise, legal entity, brand, person or establishment.","Trace ownership and succession while distinguishing share transfers from transfers of business assets or trademarks.","Identify the entity requiring verification before contracting, licensing, commercial representation or product escalation.","Associate biscuit families and factories with responsible organisations for a specified period.","Assess heritage and founding claims against documentary evidence and preserve unresolved discrepancies."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Undeclared allergens in biscuits can cause severe reactions."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, European Union."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["This historical biscuit-making business is encountered in studies of French food manufacturing, commercial heritage and industrial development in Nantes.","Its identity is relevant when interpreting historical packaging, advertising, factory records and collections.","Research into ownership or authority must distinguish the original enterprise from later corporate owners and rights associated with its commercial 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those entities relate legally to the historical enterprise?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q779511/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q779511/spec.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-12T10:55:41Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"not-applicable","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-07T12:16:34+00:00: completeness 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