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= Lucie Basch = Lucie Basch, born on January 22 1992 in Paris, co-founded and is Chief Expansion Officer of Too Good To Go, an app fighting food waste by connecting users with shops and restaurants that have unsold food.

An engineer, Lucie started her career in the food-processing industry in the UK. Witnessing the scope of food waste in her branch, she quit her job and ​imagined a concept that would ​empower any citizen to fight food waste at their own level.

Because “collaboration is the new competition”, Lucie joined ​forces with ​a couple of young entrepreneurs in Denmark that had a similar idea and together, they created Too Good To Go. Lucie launched Too Good To Go in France in June 2016, with great success.

Since then, Too Good To Go operates in 14 countries and have saved 45 million meals. Too Good To Go has more than 51,000 business partners and counts 600+ employees. Lucie is a member of the Carrefour Food Orientation Committee” and a Board member of France Digitale. In 2020, she is part of the Top 40 Women of Forbes in France.

Professional training
Lucie Basch was born on January 22 1992 in Paris. She graduated from Centrale Lille in 2014 and mastered in logistics from the Cranfield university in the United-Kingdom.

Career in food processing
After graduating in 2014, Lucie Basch starts working in Nestlé plants in the UK. Her mission is to improve production "to produce faster and cheaper", implementing the Six Sigma method. She then realizes how food waste is taken into account in the production process. She takes action, shocked by the quantity of food that is thrown away "I'm an engineer and I think rationally. Food waste always bothered me because it doesn't make any sense. Whatever plant I visited, either to produce cereals or coffee, the mindset was the same". She then quits her job.

Fighting food waste
In 2016 while in Oslo, she finds out about Open Food Network and collaborative economy and social entrepreneurship. Through OuiShare and its network she finds like-minded entrepreneurs working on food waste and develops an online platform connecting stores and users so food surplus doesn't go to waste.

Too Good To Go
Too Good To Go is a social impact company driving a movement against food waste. Too Good To Go was created to inspire and empower everyone to fight food waste.The app is the world’s largest B2C marketplace for surplus food. The app connects users with businesses that have surplus food, so that this food can be enjoyed instead of wasted. Users get meals at a lower price, businesses reach new customers and recover sunk costs, and the planet has less wasted food to deal with - it’s a win-win-win. In 2019, Lucie explains "One third of the food produced globally is wasted, or 41 tons per second. We have to try out everything that we can ".

Too Good To Go now operates in 14 European countries: France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, United-Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal and soon the United States. Over 51,000 stores can nowadays offer their food surplus to 23 million users. 45 million meals have been saved since the launch of the app.

In 2016, the Garot law is passed, forcing retailers to reduce food waste. The momentum is perfect to launch the app and Too Good To Go is launched in France in June 2016 and now has 85 employees in Paris and 600 globally. Regarding the app impact, she explains "We create value for society, we built a business model that makes sense and we can aim for positive social impact".

In 2017, French chef Thierry Marx says about her "She understands that our smartphone is our second brain and that apps can campaign for a cause", about the app, he says that "the consumer also has to become an activist, knowing that each product has a social and environmental responsibility. Before an independent organization can guide us towards the good products, we haven't found a better solution than this app".

Expiry dates
For Lucie Basch, the fight against food waste notably involves a revision of expiry dates, responsible for 10% of food waste in Europe. She works to educate and raise awareness on the topic in the media but also with professionals, in particular with the publication of the first white paper on expiry dates and the launch in January 2020 of the Pact on Consumption Dates signed by around fifty actors in the food sector - manufacturers (Nestlé, Danone, Bel...) retailers (Carrefour, Monoprix, Cora, Auchan....) federations and associations of consumers and environmental protection. The Pact includes 10 concrete and measurable commitments related to the management and understanding of consumption dates, and is supported by the French Ministries of Ecological Transition and of Agriculture and Food.

In France, Bel is the first manufacturer to update the packaging of the Laughing cow to provide French consumers with explanations about the "best before" date and letting them know that the product can be eaten after the date.

Awards
In July 2020, Lucie Basch is one of the French Forbes Top 40 Women.

In 2019, Lucie Basch becomes a board member of France Digitale, and is listed in the Top 50 Women in retail by professional magazine LSA. She also received the "Future Award" of the French radio Europe 1, in the food category.

In 2018, she joins Carrefour's Food Transition Committee ans is named "Women entrepreneur of the year".