Co-organized by “Sud Ouest”, the Banque populaire and the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, this evening, hosted by Stéphane Vacchiani, took place on 18e prize list of its kind to highlight the driving forces of the Landes, in the presence of Cyril Gayssot, departmental councilor, Marie-Laure Lafargue, regional councilor, and François Lafitte, president of the Landes Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI ).
After the Saint-Pierre-du-Mont Cultural Center in 2023, place at the Dax Atrium.
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In a sometimes “anxious” economic climate, the latter recalled local particularism. “The Landes are a little out of step with the national trend. This is a dynamic department that has registered more than 7,000 businesses since 2019.”
The jackpot for Materrup
2024 departmental prize, the Materrup company will represent the Landes during the regional final, on February 11, 2025. At the head of this family adventure deployed in Saint-Geours-de-Maremne, Julie Neuville, her brothers Charles, Mathieu and Manuel Mercé . With their 20 employees, they are building a solid future with low-carbon cement. “Our DNA,” recalls the president from the stage of the Atrium, “it is these solutions that allow us to continue building within planetary limits. »
The evening also highlighted a valuable partner of Materrup and just as much a defender of virtuous construction, the company specializing in low-carbon eco-roads and winner of the public prize: Unélo. Like Jack's Burgers (dynamic prize), Dussau Développement (transmission prize), Société Nouvelle Caulonque (innovation prize), the spotlight was placed on a local economic player full of promise. : the Ziwig Lab laboratory in Tercis-les-Bains and its revolutionary technology, the saliva test to diagnose endometriosis.
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Five prizes were awarded, not counting the “public” prize.
The presentation of this “start-up prize” was made by the president of the Agglomeration Julien Dubois to one of the two co-founders, Doctor Hikmat Chahine, mayor of Tercis-les-Bains and… fourth vice-president. president in charge of finances of Grand Dax. A happy coincidence that the host Stéphane Vacchiani did not fail to highlight, not unlike that of the previous ceremony: “When the president of the Department, Xavier Fortinon, presented the departmental prize to the company Gascogne SA to Dominique Coutière , its first vice-president.
