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The 5 keypoints

  • A powerful industry : 10 billion Euros of sales before tax and 60 000 employees.

  • Made mostly of SMEs : 91% of the sales are made by firms employing 20 to 250 persons.

  • A high export rate: 33%.

  • A domestic consumption amounting to 26 billion Euros .

  • An industrial mutation, over the last 15 years, similar to the one performed by the steel and car industries as regards sales, personnel and investments.

    Each of these industries has used specific methods - automation and quality for the car industry, specialization and upgrading of the product line for the steel industry, services and offshore manufacturing for the clothing industry - to achieve the same result : maintain, and even increase their sales while cutting down their personnel by half.