[Automatic translation follows] Activity, employment, environment, solidarity at the heart of the Centre-Val de Loire Region's challenges for the future A flagship location for creation, innovation and the art of living, the Centre-Val de Loire region has, since the Renaissance, been the one that best embodies the Nature-Culture and Heritage DNA. Strongly marked by its agriculture, the Centre-Val de Loire region is one of the leading cereal-producing regions in Europe. They are also renowned for their internationally renowned competitiveness clusters: Cosmetic Valley (perfumery and cosmetics), the Electrical Energy Sciences and Systems cluster (renewable energies, intelligent buildings and electrical equipment and …

Sectors: National and local authorities

[Automatic translation follows] INRAE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment INRAE, the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, is a major player in research and innovation created on January 1, 2020. Finalized research institute resulting from the merger between the Inra and Irstea, INRAE ​​brings together a community of 12,000 people, with just over 200 research units and around forty experimental units located in 18 centers throughout France. The institute is positioned among the very first world leaders in agricultural and food sciences, in plant and animal sciences, and ranks 11th in the world …

Sectors: Research

From Earth to Life Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d’Allier plain, in the heart of Central France’s Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,500 employees working in 53 countries. At Limagrain, we breed, produce, and sell high value-added field and vegetable seeds, drawing on our long history of expertise in plant improvement. Uniquely, we also have agri-food chain businesses, in France and internationally, to transform the produce of the Cooperative’s 1,300 farmer members. The world faces escalating climatic, …

Sectors: Food

[Automatic translation follows] The ministry is organized into four technical directorates (food, education and research, economic and environmental performance of companies, fishing and aquaculture) whose action is coordinated by a general secretariat which ensures the management of human resources, financial affairs, organization of services, information and communication, agricultural statistics and forecasting, legal affairs and pilots the ministry's modernization policy The decentralized services relay the action of the central administration in the regions and departments. The ministry has nearly 36,000 agents, half of whom work in the agricultural education and training sector. Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Agri-food, and Fishing

[Automatic translation follows] Let’s cultivate plant boldness! The VEGEPOLYS VALLEY competitiveness cluster, born from the merger of VEGEPOLYS and Céréales Vallée-Nutravita, brings together companies, small and large, research laboratories and training establishments on the theme of plants. FROM GENETICS TO USES The members of the cluster are present across the entire plant value chain. They innovate for plants, on plants and through plants. This public-private, multi-sector, multi-business network brings together all the expertise from upstream to downstream, including production. Faced with the challenges, VEGEPOLYS VALLEY aims to be the global plant hub for more competitive, more qualitative agriculture that respects …

Sectors: French Cluster Public business cluster

[Automatic translation follows] With nearly 4,000 points of sale in Europe and a turnover of 53.39 billion euros in 2022, Groupement Les Mousquetaires is a major player in mass distribution. Created in France in 1969, the Group, based on private initiative, today brings together more than 3,000 independent business leaders, 150,000 employees and 7 brands: Intermarché, Netto, Bricomarché, Brico Cash, Bricorama, Roady, Rapid Windshield. The Musketeers are also present in Portugal, Belgium and Poland.

Sectors: Retail and Distribution

[Automatic translation follows] And you, how will your story at U begin? Good morning ! Our vision at U? Being as close as possible to our customers and our employees. Practice a business that resembles them, a business that brings us together, a business with a human face. Promote reasoned and responsible consumption, establish healthy relationships with producers, raise the voice of the territories loud and clear, integrate new societal and environmental and proximity requirements while respecting our values...Which are also those of our customers . Thanks to them we practice a different business, a business differently. Our network of …

2020 reminded us that retail plays a crucial role in society. Retailing obviously involves distributing safe, high-quality products, but it also means welcoming, connecting, serving, bringing together and even reassuring people. Since 1898, Casino Group has developed and enhanced its banners in France and Latin America, in an effort to satisfy all consumer expectations. Today, to effectively meet these expectations, we pool the talents of our 205,000 employees to achieve a shared ambition. It’s a question of being fully aware of our purpose and making it a source of pride, this spirit of responsibility is our signature. It also requires …

Sectors: Retail and Distribution

A changing retailer in a changing world to give customers the keys to better food. To create new-generation retailing that improves people’s lives, Auchan Retail places customers at the centre of its actions and reaffirms the retailer’s role: that of a multi-format, “phygital” activist for good, healthy, local produce that constantly reinvents itself to deliver a new customer experience – one that’s close, connected, surprising and considerate. Auchan Retail’s 1,985 points of sale offer all forms of retailing in 12 countries: hypermarkets, supermarkets and ultra convenience stores – all supplemented by the power and flexibility of e-retail. We’re one of …

Sectors: Retail and Distribution

[Automatic translation follows] Defend everything that matters to you For more than 70 years, E.Leclerc has pursued one objective: to democratize consumption, it is the expression of its social utility. This commitment to serving as many people as possible must allow everyone to access the products and services they need or want on a daily basis. Accessibility, whether a question of price, proximity or information, is an ongoing battle, constantly renewed by consumer expectations and societal issues. Improve the purchasing power of consumers on a daily basis; Break monopolies to open new markets, such as parapharmacy or cultural products; Support …

Sectors: Retail and Distribution