Female entrepreneurship: study, key figures and inspiring stories
Focus on 3 stories of female entrepreneurs who defy preconceived ideas
Despite an uncertain economic environment, entrepreneurship is attracting many women who feel that being their own boss is more motivating than being an employee. If they take the plunge into entrepreneurship, the majority do so to put a personal idea into practice (57%) and to give meaning to their lives (56%).
Key figures on female entrepreneurship in 2025
The study reveals that 20% of women want to start their own business. However, compared with the previous year, the desire to start a business is down by 6% among women, while it remains stable among men.
Main motivations for women entrepreneurs
- 57% want to turn a personal idea into reality (+10% compared to 2024)
- 56% want to give meaning to their professional lives (+12% compared to 2024)
- Men, on the other hand, are more motivated by financial gain
Obstacles to female entrepreneurship
The obstacles identified by women are
- Lack of start-up capital (45%)
- Incompatibility with family life (33%)
- Complex administrative procedures (45%)
Solutions to encourage female entrepreneurship
The women surveyed believe that to encourage female entrepreneurship, it is necessary to :
- Simplify administrative procedures and reduce regulatory obstacles (48%)
- Set up schemes to reconcile professional and personal life (45%)
- Better sharing of family tasks (42%)
France Active support for female entrepreneurs
To support female entrepreneurs, France Active has set up a specific guarantee enabling them to borrow without a personal guarantee. This guarantee is offered as part of a wider support package for women entrepreneurs. In addition, support programmes and meetings specifically for women are organised in most regions.
3 examples of women who have developed their projects in rural areas, thanks to the investment :
Clémence Ducroquet-Talleu: a booming dairy cooperative
Director of the dairy cooperative “Lait Prairies du Boulonnais”, Clémence Ducroquet-Talleu has brought together seven farms to pool their resources. This cooperative enables them to share equipment for collecting, pasteurising and processing dairy products.
Her model is working: sales are increasing by 20% a year, and her customers range from supermarkets to hotels and schools.
Sandra GRENTZINGER, Director of the Marpa de la Doller
Located in Sentheim, a town of 1,600 inhabitants in the heart of Alsace, this home for independent living (Marpa) has a maximum capacity of 25 residents. Average age: 87. All have their own private flat (40 m2 T1bis for singles and 50 m2 T2 for couples), with the option of sharing meals together and taking advantage of the communal areas, as well as socialising and taking part in activities. The aim is to enable everyone to participate in the life of the home. They can give their opinion on the week’s menu or the programme of activities, lend a hand with cooking or preparing the table… It’s a real home from home, where everyone’s abilities are valued and their sense of usefulness is boosted! And it’s all run by one woman, Sandra Grentzinger, who cares about everyone’s well-being.
Natacha Kancel, Drain’ailes project manager
Natacha Kancel has set up her Drain’ailes back-to-work workshop in Sainte-Rose, north of Basse-Terre in Guadeloupe, a town often cited for its unemployment and crime rate. On this farm, she employs a dozen women, mostly single mothers, in three activities: agroforestry (cocoa, vanilla, coffee, etc.), permaculture organic farming (market gardening, fruit trees, etc.) and agro-processing (sauces, seasonings, juices, etc.). Drain’ailes is the first association in Guadeloupe to benefit from a interest-free loan.
This tool provides an accessible solution and real leverage for associations that often have difficulty accessing bank loans. France Active is co-financing up to 70% of the needs, alongside the Banque des Territoires, the Region and the Department. Natacha Kancel wanted to create this place of integration for women and by women through the memory of her grandmother, who provided for the family by cultivating the land.
Women’s entrepreneurship is booming, despite persistent obstacles. With support schemes like those offered by France Active, more and more women are daring to take the plunge and give life to their projects. The inspiring stories of Clémence, Sandra and Natacha show that it is possible to succeed, even in sectors and territories that have been little explored by women.
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At the age of 22, she opens her own flower shop in the Ain department
Léa CARON
Manager of the ‘Au clos fleuri’ shop
Florist
The support I received from France Active Ain was very beneficial. Franklin Witham, the France Active adviser, guided me through the steps I needed to take and helped me draw up my business plan.
Nantua, Ain (01)
Florist
Léa Caron has always worked in retail. After her A levels in this field, she joined a cheese shop and then a bakery. She enjoys the contact with customers. One day, she came across an advert for a florist who was looking for an apprentice, so she decided to take the plunge. She discovered a business she liked and took the diploma to make it her profession. A few months later, the shop closed as the florist moved to another sector. It was at this point that her path crossed the one of another florist who wanted to sell her shop in Nantua. Léa decided to take over the shop, supported by an uncle who also worked in the trade. She had always wanted to set up her own business, and when she told her friends and family that she wanted to take over a shop, they all supported and encouraged her. It was the bank that directed Léa to France Active Ain. Franklin Witham, the network’s adviser, clearly explained the steps she needed to take to set up her project. ‘Léa Caron is very young, just 22. But despite her age, I felt she was dynamic, mature and determined. I showed her where to start, what a business plan was and how to put it together, who to talk to about the next steps… She had a real desire to do things right.
Thanks to France Active, she received a bank guarantee to enable her to take out a loan without having to provide a personal guarantee, as well as grants to help finance some of the work involved in refitting the shop and some of the initial stock.
With the opening approaching, Léa was apprehensive: she was worried that in the middle of July she wouldn’t have enough customers. But the opposite happened: ‘I had a much better opening than I’d hoped for. That enabled me to put some cash aside. I wasn’t expecting such a huge response over the summer period and I’ve had a lot of compliments about the flowers and the reorganisation of the sales area.
Léa’s next step is to recruit an apprentice to help her on a day-to-day basis.
Any advice for entrepreneurs who want to get started?
‘Knowing how to surround yourself with the right people to move forward with confidence and serenity, being patient and knowing how to protect yourself are the 3 pieces of advice that I would give to an entrepreneur who wants to get started’, she confides.
Focus on the FAPE EDF grant
Enabling the most vulnerable people to create their own jobs, while revitalising rural areas that are all too often deserted, is the ambition of the joint action undertaken by France Active and FAPE EDF for almost 15 years. This ambition has resulted in support for the start-up of more than 1,800 businesses over the last 15 years. Here’s a closer look at this partnership.
Léa Caron received a €2,000 grant for her business start-up project ‘Au clos fleuri’.
Benefited
With a guarantee of
32 000€
from a bonus of
3 000€
Supported by
France Active Ain
And
FAPE EDF
In 2024
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Learning Braille through play, a real lever for inclusion
Jean MASSOU
Chairman and founder of Handi Exceller
Supporting learning for people with disabilities
Many visually impaired or blind people fail to learn Braille. The strength of this project is that it offers a fun and easy-to-use solution.
Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
Supporting learning for people with disabilities
Nearly 60% of learners abandon Braille (according to the French HOMÈRE study on visual impairment 2022 by the national association of parents of blind children and its partners). The reason for this is the great difficulty of this writing system and the lack of tools to make it easier to learn. It was this problem that Jean Massou set out to tackle at secondary school. ‘It all started with a meeting. I was looking for a subject for my final year project. When I bumped into my neighbour Christine, who is visually impaired, I had the idea of asking her what she was missing. She immediately told me about Braille and how it’s so complicated, which puts a lot of visually impaired people off.https://vimeo.com/1069546162
Two key areas: games and inclusion
Jean came up with Br’EYE (pronounced like ‘braille’), a console for learning braille independently, with games accessible to all.
The project went from strength to strength, attracting attention and awards. At the Engineering Science Olympiads, Jean, still a secondary school student, won the regional and then the national competitions. As an undergraduate, he took part in the ‘ Entrepreneurship for Learning’ programme, which enabled him to embark on the beginnings of an entrepreneurial adventure. Here too, the national prize was up for grabs. ‘Until then, I’d been pursuing the project in ‘garage mode’, alongside my engineering studies. But at this stage, I started to get in touch with companies and with the Lorraine Incubator. That’s when I felt we could gear up and create a company to promote Br’EYE more widely.
It has to be said that the tool has three strong points. Firstly, it meets a real unmet need for visually impaired people: no competing solution exists on the market. Secondly, it is resolutely inclusive: ‘Everyone can use it: the visually impaired person, but also their teachers, relatives, etc. Because it’s all based on games. It’s an excellent way of getting as much Braille as possible on a regular basis without losing motivation. Finally, he is banking on autonomy, which represents a real access to information.
Consistent deployment
To structure his approach, Jean founded Handi Exceller in 2021. Three years later, the Nancy-based company has eight employees and has raised €1 million to roll out Br’EYE throughout France and, in recent months, internationally. As part of its ongoing drive for inclusivity, the range has also been expanded with the creation of Marble, which enables learners to play games on their computers, without the need for a special device.
The young entrepreneur also highlights the contribution made by France Active. ‘Their support has been very useful on three levels. Firstly, in networking with players in the Social and Solidarity Economy. Secondly, in defining our funding strategy. I’d say that they helped me to better understand the dynamics of this financial intelligence. Finally, by providing a bank guarantee, which was reassuring for our loan’, he sums up.
And of course, the young entrepreneur has no intention of stopping there. ‘Once we have finalised the deployment of our tools in the field of visual impairment, we would like to explore other aspects of disability, such as autistic disorders. Learning through games opens up enormous potential!
Benefited from the creation offer
with a guarantee of
40 000€
Supported by
France Active Lorraine
In 2023
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A sibling group of young entrepreneurs with plenty of energy!
Ananth PURUSHOTHAMAN
Co-founder of Shape Eat
Balanced meals available in gyms
Not forgetting that our aim is to democratise healthy, balanced food at low prices in our area.
Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Balanced meals available in gyms
The concept of Shape Eat is simple and effective: to provide access to healthy, tasty, affordable meals via connected dispensers installed in the heart of gyms.
The idea was the brainchild of two brothers, Ananth and Magesh Purushothaman, who didn’t wait long to develop their entrepreneurial spirit. They were in their twenties when they embarked on their adventure. Ananth was studying for a master’s degree at a business school and Magesh was an aerospace engineer. “Personally, I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur since I was a child,’ confirms Ananth. I was 11 when we arrived in France. We learnt French on the spot. Right away, I wanted to understand how a company worked, the management, what had to be done to make it work?”
A new concept for gyms
Ananth and Magesh are young, but not hot-headed. Ananth decided to devote all his time to the project, while his brother concentrated on developing the technical aspects while continuing his professional career.
The project is being built up step by step: training in the health and hygiene standards that are essential for any catering business, recruitment of a chef, creation of recipes, hire of a kitchen, and so on. A sports coach, Corine Lecolas, is also joining the venture. Her strong point: her excellent knowledge of sports hall networks and customer relations.
This led to a partnership with Fitness Park, which installed dispensers in six gyms in Seine-Saint-Denis: Villepinte, Les Pavillons-sous-Bois, Villemomble, Courbevoie and Roissy-en-France. ‘The sports halls have been convinced by the approach. What Shape Eat offers doesn’t yet exist. And yet many sportsmen and women are looking for solutions to ensure that their diet meets their targeted nutritional needs (weight loss, muscle mass gain, increased performance, etc.). Our connected dispensers help them by displaying all this information’, explains Ananth. ‘
It’s also worth noting that Shape Eat can give them visibility, because the dispensers are accessible not only to their members, but also to anyone living in the area’.
An entry-point in the Seine-Saint-Denis county
Shape Eat’s founders are particularly keen to establish a local presence. ‘We come from Aulnay-sous-Bois and our business is based in Seine-Saint-Denis, with the aim of creating jobs in the county. We train and recruit people who are being reintegrated into the workplace, or those on youth employment schemes, into our kitchen. Not forgetting that our aim is to democratise healthy, balanced food at low prices in our area’, explains Ananth.
Struck by the team’s determination and commitment, France Active Métropole (which operates in the Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne départements) decided to support the project with a Young Entrepreneur grant, an interest-free loan and an Égalité Territoires guarantee. Thanks to the Accès + programme dedicated to new entrepreneurs from disadvantaged areas. Ananth was also able to attend workshops on digitalising his business. ‘This support gave us a solid start and the cash flow we needed to get going,’ he confirms. Today, just a few months after setting up Shape Eat, the signs are green: ‘sales are up and the concept is winning over the network of sports halls in the region. In the future, we’re looking to expand nationally, and why not across Europe? There’s nothing to stop us from having that ambition,’ concludes Ananth.
Focus on the Inclusion through Self-Employment programme:
In March 2021, France Active is responding to a call for projects launched by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Integration. On this occasion, France Active is enhancing its Creation offer with new support modules for the most vulnerable entrepreneurs, focusing on 4 themes:
- financial education (managing cash flow, managing relations with bankers, dashboards and management tools, crowdfunding and financial analysis and management),
- protection and security (risk prevention, social and legal protection, civil liability, cyber-risks)
- digital awareness (for prospecting, brand awareness, etc.),
- awareness of impact
And for young people aged between 18 and 30, a €1,000 grant
Has benefited
from guarantees of
102 000€
from two bonus of
6 000€
Was supported by
France Active Métropole
In 2022 and 2023
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Event: a new look at solidarity-based savings
When savers get involved in transforming our economy.
On 5 December last year, France Active invited financial players to change the way they look at solidarity-based savings on the 1st anniversary of Actifs Solidaires, an initiative aimed at making investment accessible to voluntary sector managers and Social Economy companies. The aim of the event is to demonstrate how citizen savings respond to local social and ecological challenges through socially responsible investment. Discover the programme and replay of this evening event, which took place at the Maison de la Conversation in Paris.
>> From savings to solidarity-based investment :
In recent years, social and environmental needs have become increasingly pressing. At the same time, the economic models of associations and Social Economy companies have come under pressure (increasing number of beneficiaries, inflation, falling subsidies, public calls for projects, etc.). Against this backdrop, France Active has launched a programme to encourage these structures to invest in order to bounce back, cross thresholds and further develop their social utility. This initiative, called Actifs Solidaires, is celebrating its 1st year.
How are these socially useful projects financed? Through socially responsible citizen savings! To help finance projects run by associations and Social Economy companies, France Active invests French people’s solidarity savings. These savings are little-known (France Active-Fair survey by OpinionWay), even though the French are the biggest savers in Europe. Yet this survey shows that if they knew about solidarity-based savings, they would be in favour of it, because it meets their expectations, both in terms of its social and ecological impact and its level of profitability over the medium and long term.
>> Event of the 5th December in Paris
At this event, France Active looked again at the concerns of savers to demonstrate how solidarity-based savings responds to them and how it helps to finance associations and companies in the Social Economy.
- How does solidarity-based savings transform the economy?
- How does it help to support sustainable projects with strong potential for social innovation?
- How does solidarity financing provide a strong territorial base and a collective dimension to the development of these territories?
These will be the 3 themes addressed during the evening.
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>> Programme:
17:00 – Opening by Pierre-René Lemas, Chairman of France Active
Talkshow with investment players:
- Laurence Laplane-Rigal, Amundi
- and Cédric Renaud, Caisse d’Épargne
Entrepreneurs:
- The directors of Protectus, Les Alchimistes
- and Jardins de la voie romaine
Social Economy and solidarity-based savings players:
- Marion Le Cam, Fédération Nationale de l’Offre de services de la MSA
- and Éric Larpin, Label Finansol
Talkshow hosted by Sébastien Borgnat, former LCI morning show journalist.
To close the event, Pierre-René Lemas called for solidarity-based savings schemes to be made universally available, giving employees of SMEs and large groups alike access to this type of savings. This will enable the associations and Social Economy companies that benefit from them to expand their activities.
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2025, a socially committed year
Pierre-René LEMAS
Président of France Active
Bold, resilient, militant and socially committed, the entrepreneurs we support inspire us. In the new year, they will show us just how necessary it is to mobilise if we want to move our society towards greater inclusion, greater ecology and greater solidarity.
Despite all the economic, social and political uncertainties we are experiencing, and to combat the inward-looking attitudes that could take hold of us all, we must act at every level to put back at the heart of all our exchanges the great principles of solidarity that underpin our way of living together. Transforming our economy, an ambition that we have held dear since the beginning of our history, is one of the possible responses to the various crises we are experiencing. In the New Year, I hope that financial players, public decision-makers and businesses will become more involved in this long-awaited transformation. I also hope that citizens will regain the power to act on the major challenges we face.
More and more entrepreneurs will be able to put the issues of employment, social cohesion, ecology and democratic governance at the heart of their projects throughout the world.
A very happy and socially committed year to you all.
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Car-sharing makes its mark in Greater Toulouse
Alexandre JOUAVILLE
Managing Director of the Citiz Occitanie cooperative
Car-sharing
As a partner, France Active is strengthening the Social and Solidarity Economy ecosystem by giving credibility to projects like ours.
Toulouse and greater area
Car-sharing
By pooling vehicles and reducing car dependency, carsharing is an innovative and virtuous mobility solution that helps to meet environmental challenges and contributes to better urban living. More than 20 years ago, the Citiz network was born, and today it is present in 200 towns and cities, with a fleet of more than 2,000 cars available 24 hours a day. In Occitanie, Citiz offers cars in 45 stations throughout the region (to avoid focusing on the metropolis). France Active has been supporting the structures of this pioneering car-sharing network for many years. https://vimeo.com/1026460093
Alexandre JOUAVILLE, could you briefly describe your organisation?
Citiz is a cooperative offering a fleet of self-service cars in local areas. As a pioneer of car-sharing in France, we promote a vision of mobility that is an alternative to private car ownership. By providing easy access to a car on an occasional basis, Citiz replaces 8 private cars and frees up 3 on-street parking spaces. Our ambition is to develop stations linked to all the sustainable mobility and public transport infrastructures in the region.
How is commitment at the heart of Citiz’s project?
First of all, we are a Scic, a cooperative society of collective interest where all the stakeholders take decisions together. Citiz is also an ambitious project in the general interest, working to improve the quality of life of our fellow citizens by limiting the number of cars and the amount of parking space in town. Our project also aims to reduce its environmental impact by offering cars with the lowest possible emissions. We also want to give certain households access to a means of individual transport at a lower cost, thanks to a transparent and incentive-based pricing policy (cost of hire per hour, per kilometre, etc.).
Has benefited
from a guarantee of
84 000€
from investments of
395 000€
from a bonus of
8 000€
Were supported by
France Active MPA Occitanie
Depuis 2021
France Active’s perspective
Hélène GAUTHIER
Funding coordinator at France Active MPA Occitanie
How did you identify the Citiz project?
Citiz benefited from the ISO fund (Investir Solidaire en Occitanie). This fund was co-constructed by MPA Occitanie and other local financiers, notably the Union régionale des Scop and IES (Initiative pour une Économie Solidaire). We work closely with these partner networks, which enable us to identify many committed projects like Citiz.
How does Citiz’s approach fit in with France Active’s vision of commitment?
The Citiz project is strong on all the pillars of commitment: employment, social, territorial, ecological and governance. Citiz has a shared governance model, a large number of members and employs around ten people in Occitanie. Their offer frees up public space, encourages modal shift and reduces pollution. Last but not least, they have a strong coverage of the region, with a presence beyond the major metropolises, giving people access to mobility by car at a lower cost. In fact, we’re very proud to use Citiz to transport our advisers throughout the region.
How do you help entrepreneurs to make their projects more socially useful?
We pay close attention to questions of commitment during annual monitoring campaigns or during refinancing phases. For example, when a major player in the Sociale Economy sector recently raised funds, we didn’t hesitate to ask them about their vision of employment in the context of significant growth.
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A programme to encourage committed projects
Every month for the past 5 years, Place de l’émergence has been helping entrepreneurs to turn their socially useful projects into reality. Advice, funding and networking: the France Active triptych is at the heart of this programme. And to strengthen the support and funding, the association is surrounded by expert and funding partners.
In the delicate ideation phase for projects with a social and ecological dimension, it is difficult to find guidance and support. This is why France Active has mobilised a number of public and private partners to create a programme dedicated to the emergence of new businesses.
Called the ‘Fonds de confiance’ when it was launched in 2005, this programme has undergone significant development and is known as ‘Place de l’émergence’ since 2019. To celebrate the Place’s 5th anniversary, France Active brought together all the stakeholders in the programme last February. It was a great opportunity to celebrate the successes and to look ahead to the future of this initiative, which forms part of the various actions to support incubation and emergence carried out by local associations.
Women entrepreneurs take centre stage!
Over the past 5 years, 62 meetings have been attended by more than 250 projects. In total, over €4 million in grants have been awarded, with an average grant of around €17,000. Nearly 70% of the projects are run by women, over 31% are located in disadvantaged areas and 10% are run by long-term jobseekers. Over the next few years, the programme will be redesigned to involve partners more closely in the choice of entrepreneurs that will be supported, and to make it easier for them to be selected locally. Over the past 5 years, 62 meetings have been attended by more than 250 projects. In total, over €4 million in grants have been awarded, with an average grant of around €17,000. Nearly 70% of the projects are run by women, over 31% are located in disadvantaged areas and 10% are run by long-term jobseekers. Over the next few years, the programme will be redesigned to involve partners more closely in the choice of entrepreneurs that will be supported, and to make it easier for them to be selected locally.
Examples of winners
In 2021, the association Les Valoristes came into being thanks to the support from the Emergence Ile-de-France scheme. This enabled the project to be structured over a 4-month period, and to be challenged in terms of its impact, the products and services it offered, its objectives, and so on.) This feedback was very valuable to the association. Les Valoristes then obtained funding under the Place de l’émergence scheme. In 2022, the association received its integration site agreement. In 2023, it focused on responding to calls for tender and developing the structure. 2024 will be a year of structuring around 3 offers: the wood factory, the lab for electronic waste and the campus to raise public awareness of the circular economy and inclusion.
In 2022, Place de l’émergence supported the La Remise association. This is a project that works to disseminate and promote re-use in the construction sector in the Grand Est region through a digital platform. This project, supported by the Banque des Territoires, the Banque de France and the Macif Foundation, is now continuing to develop.
Thank you to all those involved, without whom this scheme would not exist.
What impact has this programme had?
Since the launch of Place de l’émergence in 2019, €3.85M in grants have been paid to participants, with an average amount of €17,000 per grants paid.
67% are female project owners, with an average age of 44. 10% are long-term jobseekers (more than 12 months) and 31.5% of projects are in fragile areas
France Active’s main prescribers are other support networks (62%).
540 jobs! This is the number of jobs created by the structures surveyed, or 5 jobs per structure financed.
And today, 64% of the projects are in the development or consolidation phase. Only 5% of projects have been abandoned.
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Beautiful work for a noble essence
Claire LESTAVEL
Administrative manager at Ambiance Bois
Working differently
France Active has been with us since Ambiance Bois was set up 35 years ago. When we started out, it was a question of guaranteeing a loan that enabled us to set up. France Active Nouvelle-Aquitaine remains at our side to finance our development phases, as it was the case for the purchase of a shredding line that enabled us to recycle our waste.
Faux-la-Montagne (Creuse)
Working differently
Claire Lestavel is the administrative manager of a sawmill and planermill nestling in Faux-la-Montagne in the Creuse region of France. When asked about Ambiance Bois, she doesn’t talk about herself or her career, but about a team. In fact, she was chosen by lottery and is ‘only’ the spokesperson for a company with an original way of working. She talks about the resources, organisation and values of a company set up in 1988 by a group of scouts who wanted to work differently. https://vimeo.com/1019466284
In the forest
Ambiance Bois is based on the Millevaches plateau. The founders chose a rural setting and succeeded in breathing life into the area through economic activity and employment.
Today, Faux-la-Montagne has fewer than 400 inhabitants. Despite this, and thanks to the investment of the Ambiance Bois team, the commune has managed to preserve essential facilities and shops: a nursery, a school, a grocery-bakery, a pharmacy, etc.
The sawmill site was not chosen at random. The natural resource is abundantly available in the surrounding massifs. The company’s work is therefore carried out in a short circuit, with no intermediaries: those involved in harvesting Douglas pine or larch are also the sellers of these processed species, of which they are proud.
What is SAPO?
The foundations have been laid in terms of dynamism and ethics. All that remains is to tick off the social and community dimension. Ambiance Bois is a SAPO (a limited company with workers’participation), a very rare form of company. This model was chosen by the founders because they felt that the relationship with the workforce was just as important as the quality of the finished product.
The SAPO status allows for self-management: decisions are taken collectively. Employees have a say on prices, schedules, recruitment and other matters that primarily concern them.
Salaries are the same for everyone, regardless of seniority in the company, level of education or skills. In exchange, a degree of flexibility and versatility, where possible, is expected. Of course, responsibilities are shared.
In this unusual venture, the day-to-day activity is as important as the capital invested: dividends are shared equally between labour and capital shareholders. France Active provided financial support for Ambiance Bois when it was first set up, and throughout its development, particularly for the purchase of equipment. This has enabled the sawmill and planermill to continue to evolve and adapt to new needs, without losing any of what makes it unique.
Has benefited
from guarantees of
64 000€
from investments of
253 000€
Was supported by
France Active Nouvelle Aquitaine
Since 2013
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