Parliament of local businesses, the Breton network of CCIs in turn reacts following the announcement of the closure of the Michelin factory in Vannes. In a joint press release, Jean-Pierre Rivery and Philippe Rouault, respectively presidents of the CCI Bretagne and the CCI Morbihan, call for measures and guarantees of economic sovereignty over the territories.
“The announcement of the closure of the Michelin factory in Vannes is brutal and it will be necessary to measure its impacts. This is extremely hard news for the 300 employees and the entire region.
Whether here in Morbihan or in Finistère with the closure announced at the end of the year of Saupiquet in Quimper (150 employees), we must encourage the establishment or development of businesses to recreate employment and the value on these sites. We must identify and support the implementation of industrial projects focused on growing and innovative markets in order to maintain positive economic dynamics.
In Vannes, as in other territories, a complete engineering offering must be deployed to help project leaders structure their approaches and initiatives, bringing together the State, Region and local authorities. This is what the CCIs have been doing in Brittany since 2018, through the Territoires d'industrie program, in close proximity to local public stakeholders and businesses.
We are also committed at the regional level to the process of relocalizing purchases initiated by the Region because reindustrialization will also involve company purchases, 10% of which can be relocalized. To do this, we want to involve all companies, starting with SMEs.
Our conviction is that we must accelerate transitions, rethink the production model of our companies to be more economical and gain sovereignty. It is this vision that we must adopt to be sustainable, to be innovative, to move forward. »
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