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Who's who in La Rochelle |
- Major companies
The local economy's heavyweights, Alstom, Rhodia and Delphi,
chose La Rochelle as their base for expansion.
- Alstom specializes in rail car body manufacturing and integration.
- Delphi Diesel Systems fabricates new-generation injectors
known as "common-rail" for the car industry. The factory in
Perigny was the first in Europe to produce such types of auto
components.
- Rhodia Electronics & Catalysis decided to locate its headquarters
in La Rochelle. This subsidiary of the Rhodia Group produces
rare earth-based performance additives used in catalysis and
electronics.
- Dufour, in which the Italian group Cantiere del Pardo acquired a stake, ranks among the leading yacht builders.
- A backbone of SMEs
An array of innovative small- and medium-size enterprises lend
the area its specific structure.
- SEMAT, long-established in the conurbation, manufactures
sanitation machinery.
- Ioltech has experienced spectacular growth designing
and making lens implants and eye surgery products.
- Senoble, specialising in fresh delicacy desserts
and entremets, has a plant in Aytré which houses the Group's
research centre in those specialities.
- Atlantique Alimentaire has developed a market niche
making pies, pizzas, crêpes, and criques - a potato pancake
speciality.
- LEA Nature, a group specialising in natural products
and health foods, heads the mass distribution market in herbal
medicines.
- Sitel has opened an outsourcing call centre in the
conurbation for big multinationals.
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