Place Verminck

Charles-Auguste Verminck was the most important industrialist, shipowner and merchant of the port of Marseille in the 1870s, the head of the peanut sector. Founder of the Verminck establishments, which became the Compagnie du Sénégal et de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique, this company had 400 employees during this decade, 4 factories and about twenty ships, established in Guinea, Sénégal and Sierra Leone. In 1881, it had 700 employees, two oil mills and a fleet of about thirty ships. Its envoys, among them Marius Moustier, were the origin of the discovery of the Niger springs.

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