Top Innovation: Stéarinerie Dubois (Ciron), awarded by Dev'up. Created two hundred years ago, but established in Indre, in Ciron, only since the beginning of the 1960s, the Stéarinerie Dubois is nevertheless today one of its flagships, since it supplies raw material to the largest global cosmetic brands. It manufactures oils and fatty substances, also called esters, useful for multiple technical applications, particularly in cosmetics.
Top local business: La Table de Célestine (Chassignolles), awarded an award by the departmental council and the Levroux-Boischaut-Champagne community of communes. Bar, restaurant but also multi-service, Nasser and Jinan Harfoush, a Franco-Syrian-Lebanese couple, brought hospitality and oriental cuisine to Chassignolles, opening the only business in the town of 566 inhabitants. Bar, restaurant but also multi-service grocery store, La Table de Célestine opened its doors in spring 2024.
Nasser and Jinan Harfoush took over the only business in the commune of Chassignolles.
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Top creation-takeover: Casa Noé (Argenton-sur-Creuse), awarded by Initiative Indre and Fiducial. After a career in the biggest fashion houses like Yves Saint Laurent or Sonia Rykiel, Olivier Paquet, 57, left the world of luxury to return to his native Berry. Originally from Châteauroux, in 2022 he opened Casa Noé, an eco-responsible boutique in Argenton-sur-Creuse, combining sustainable fashion and local Art of living.
Top international: Westrock (Le Poinçonnet), awarded by Medef and the CCI. Based in Poinçonnet, Westrock is one of four companies in the world to design machines for cardboard packaging intended for major global beverage brands (sodas, beers, fruit juices). It holds 80% of this global market. The company has experienced exponential development, largely linked to the gradual abandonment of plastic packaging.
At Poinçonnet, Westrock Packaging designs packaging machines for the big names in drinks.
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Top crafts: Autissier Bakery (Châteauroux), awarded by the CMA and Art Elec. Diarra and Benoît Autissier are co-managers of two eponymous bakeries in Châteauroux. Defender of homemade, and eager to train the artisans of tomorrow, the couple offers numerous ranges of organic breads, pastries and pastries, all based on old-fashioned know-how. To retain a customer base that “don’t buy as much bread as before”they are in constant search for innovation and diversification.
Top anchor: Trigano Remorques (Reuilly), awarded by Châteauroux Métropole and Crédit Agricole. Trigano trailers has been present in Reuilly since 1992 and the acquisition of the agricultural barrier manufacturer Amca Noval. The historic premises of 15,000 m2equipped with ultra-modern machines, are the workplace for ninety-five people. Nearly 35,000 trailers of all types leave the Berry factory each year.
Top Tourism: Sarrays golf course (Sainte-Fauste), awarded by the A2i and the NR. Since their takeover of the Sarrays golf course at the end of 2020, Anthony and Ophélie Dézécot have made it a key player in leisure in Champagne Berrichonne. Today it has 250 regular players, including 110 members, who come from all over Indre, but also occasional players from all over France and even Europe. It must be said that this nine-hole, 23-hectare golf course has two major attractions nearby: the A20 and the Camino de Santiago.
Top favorite: Braveur Opti-Aménagement (Mézières-en-Brenne), awarded by UIMM and Enedis. Twenty years ago, Thomas Bouy imagined, for himself and his friends, transport crates for working dogs. Today, he runs the Braveur company, in Mézières-en-Brenne, and employs twelve people who, alongside him, work on the manufacture of furniture for dogs and cats, but also on the specific equipment of vehicles for veterinarians.
