“When the building goes, everything goes…” For its return, the CCI brings together 900 people at Mas Merlet
Les experts ont débattu sur la crise du bâtiment.
Pour cette rentrée économique, la Chambre de commerce et d’industrie (CCI) du Gard a choisi de faire un focus sur le bâtiment, un secteur en tension.
It is now an unmissable event for the September back-to-school period. A ritual that allows business leaders from the Gard to meet, debate, learn about current economic issues, and discuss prospects for the coming year. This Wednesday evening, nearly 900 people flocked to Mas Merlet, business leaders but also economic players, elected officials, and institutions. Twice as many people as last year, “a real success, this event is eagerly awaited”, we are delighted at the CCI.
Eric Giraudier, the president of the CCI of Gard.
As an introduction, Jean-Luc Chauvin, president of the CCI Aix-Marseille-Provence and key witness of this evening, recalled the synergies existing between the two CCIs. Despite the economic context, he encouraged entrepreneurs to look to the future by taking an interest in the ecological transition and the use of artificial intelligence, which are “solutions accessible to all companies, regardless of their size”.
Three prizes awarded
In the second part of the evening, the president of CCI Gard, Eric Giraudier, rewarded the 50,000th company in Gard: Load Stations, a start-up specializing in the management and recharging of electric terminals. “This award highlights the good entrepreneurial dynamic in the Gard. The CCI Gard is proud to reward this particularly innovative company,” Eric Giraudier said.
He also presented two interconsular awards: to the company Subteal and to l’AOP Vins des Sables.
Lack of visibility
And this year, for this fourteenth edition of the Economic Back-to-School, the theme of the building was chosen. "We had already chosen it several months ago,recalls Eric Giraudier, the president of the CCI. And it is more than relevant…" while France still has no government and businesses are seriously lacking visibility.“The entire building sector, construction, finishing work, equipment, rental agencies… represents a quarter of the Gard economy", he specifies.
So the adage "When the building, everything goes…" ideally gave the title of the round table even if the reality is much more contrasted as mentioned by the experts gathered for the debate, Nadine Guarino, president of the French Banking Federation (FBF) Gard, Céline Torres, president of the Housing Division of the French Building Federation (FFB) Occitanie, Jacques Gaudibert, president of Cobaty Nîmes, Pierre Martin, president of the FFB du Gard and Romain Tissot, vice-president of Fnaim Gard-Lozère.
The observation is rather that nothing is going too well and that companies are worried. Pierre Martin, the president of the FB recently recalled that “business failures have increased by 63% in one year”.
” questions to Eric Giraudier, president of the CCI
Why this theme of construction for your return ?
It is a topical theme and construction represents overall a quarter of the economy of the Gard. There is a supply, there is a demand but the two do not converge not, for regulatory, normative, banking issues with high interest rates.
The system is seized up ?
Housing construction is down 50%, the State is stopping PTZ and Pinel without replacing them with anything else. Politics is too disconnected from economic issues. There are solutions to revive the system, we are proposing them, it is a political choice. We are asked to distribute value but to do that we have to create it.
What is the weight of the CCI du Gard ?
We bring together 50,000 companies, which represents 280,000 jobs and 25 billion euros of GDP. We are working on the Gard 30 project, which invites everyone to get involved in the development of the territory. It will be unveiled on June 18, during the inauguration of the Maison de l'entreprise.
“Giving back purchasing power”
Slowdown in construction starts, low allocation of building permits, renovations
unimportant: the construction sector is experiencing an unprecedented crisis, which is nevertheless
“possible to overcome” according to Céline Torre. Faced with this situation, solutions have been proposed by the construction federation, with the aim of supporting investments, in particular through the universal zero-rate loan (PTZ). As for the real estate sector, purchasing power, declining demographics and rising interest rates are the causes of the economic slowdown in the sector. Jacques Gaudibert, mentioned “real estate prices which have increased by 30% in 10 years but the paradigm of society which has changed“. The president of Cobaty Nîmes also wishes to “return to basics by encouraging donations between generations”.
For Romain Tissot, it is necessary to “restore purchasing power and confidence so that the middle class can afford housing”. Nadine Guarino wants to be optimistic, inviting everyone to “get moving and move forward with the interest rate cuts to come”.
The sector is in crisis but professionals remain hopeful and, above all, propose ways out of the crisis.
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