the evolution of the Transformation division of the MIN is bearing fruit

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Located near the Prés d’Arènes, the MIN from Montpellier (for National Interest Market), a real food logistics platform in Montpellier and breeding ground forlocal agriculturecontinues to develop. A few days ago, it was Transformation division of the MIN, opened in a “first version” in 2017, which benefited from an inauguration, celebrating with great fanfare a new stage of its growth.

Already around ten companies

This pole has in fact doubled in surface area, passing from 1,800 to 4,000 m2 organized between private workshops and shared laboratories. “The site, already occupied by a ten local businesses of the agri-food industry, will make it possible to supply professionals and communities with quality local products », recalls the elected representative from Montpellier Marie Massarddeputy mayor of Montpellier, delegate for food policy and urban agriculture and president of the MIN.

Concretely, the companies which have already established themselves in the processing center occupy 1,800 m2. Among them, we list Boc D’Oc, Lady Tofu, Label d’Occitanie, CoboSud, Le Goût du Bœuf, Le Bon Goût, Agriviva and even Meatomania. “By doubling the surface area of ​​this center, we will also be able to accommodate new shoots of sustainable and local food processing, i.e. a thirty companies in the end,” specifies the elected representative from Montpellier.

“The extension of the processing center makes it possible to attract and support companies with ambitious projects in sustainable food”

Marie Massard recalls that the MIN, a transmission link between producers and consumers, has a double objective: to allow residents to access quality and local agricultural production. by reducing distribution circuitsand propose fair remuneration for producers and a attractive price for the consumer: “To meet these two objectives, precisely, we are modernizing the Market-Gare”, specifies the deputy mayor: “The extension of the transformation center makes it possible to attract and support companies which carry ambitious projects in sustainable food.

New sectors in 2025

In detail, the first phase of redevelopment of the transformation center has made it possible to create several private workshop-labs and a shared laboratory workshopequipment suitable for SMEs who wish to develop their activity in the development of processed products without being able to invest in the acquisition of expensive equipment… A second phase of work (on 1200 m2) is planned for 2025 For establish new sectors transformation on the MIN.

A pioneering MIN in Montpellier

Michael Delafosse, mayor of Montpellier, confirms that the rise in power of the MIN is bearing fruit: “The National Interest Market of Montpellier, whose total annual activity amounts to more than 175 million euros, is the first MIN of a Metropolis to distribute as many local products: almost 50% of activityall sectors combined! It is also the first MIN in France to have a processing center for healthy and local food serving local production.”

Marie Massard confirms that the extension of the transformation center is already a success: “ 100 direct jobs are created, as well as a new lease of life and new dynamism for the Restanque district… But we also continue to work in parallel on the City’s other major project: the creation of a Food City ».

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