Agribusiness
Number one employer of Normandy industry
Normandy - one of the leading French regions for agribusiness.
- A wealth of natural resources (livestock, farm crops, and seafood products),
- PA range of ports for product import and export,
- Aside from the so-called traditional food-processing activities (dairy, meat, fruit and vegetables, beverages, and so on), high value-added industrial processing activities have emerged such as prepared foods and seafood products, biotechnologies and “health” foods,
- Regional Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre (CRITT) Agro-Hall in Evreux,
- ADRIA Normandie Agribusiness Cluster / Technological Resource Centre (CRT).
KEY FIGURES
- More than 330 companies, 35,000 jobs, 14% of the region’s industrial jobs,
- Ranking number one in France for flax, cider, cheese, oysters, creams, carrots and butter,
- 3rd rank in France for powdered milk, fresh milk, and seafood products.
Higher Education and R&D laboratories
Groupe FIM |
The Manche Chamber of Commerce & Industry Training Courses in Saint-Lô: training of sales and logistic executives for agribusiness. |
INBP |
The National Institute of the Bread and Pastry Industries: training courses for jobs in bread- and pastry-making. |
ADRIA Normandie |
Saint-Lô regional agribusiness cluster |
University of Caen |
Research laboratories. |
Corporate services
Normandy Sanitary Safety - Evreux: the technological platform, benefiting from the "Cold Microbiology and Foodstuff Quality" Laboratory at the Evreux University Technological Institute, develops innovative decontamination technologies in the food-processing industry.
Ialine+: an ADRIA Normandie service specialised in the development, supply, and publication of watch systems on the Internet, and the provision of customised information services for food-processing companies.
Main companies
ABC (Alliance-Bigard-Charal), Alfesca, Andros, Ariake, Amand-Bianic, Amaris, Bacardi-Martini, Bel, Bongrain, Brossard, Cargill, Cluizel, Cemoi, Cuisine Solutions, Danone, Eismann, Evialis, Ferrero, Floridienne, Frial, Isigny-Saint-Mère, Klaus J. Jacobs, Kraft Foods, Lactalis, Lunor, Lyven, Milcobel, Mont Blanc, Nestlé, Pêcheurs d’Islande, Segafredo-Zanetti, Senoble, Sodiaal, Standa, Stefano Toselli, Südzucker, Tartefrais, Terrena, Tipiak, La Toque Normande, Wild...
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