More than ever, in a particularly turbulent economic context, business leaders want to weigh in on the debate over the 2027 presidential elections. This is the meaning of the Solutions Institute (IDS) launched by Pierre Gattaz, and already established in the region through the entrepreneur Yvon Grosso, former president of UPE 06, who chairs IDS Sud.
He will now be assisted by Christian Trono, president of the Nicopolis Avenir association and head of the Excellium automobile dealership group. It was during the evening organized on March 26 at the Golf de Barbaroux by Nicopolis Avenir, that the Var branch of the IDS was officially launched, on the sidelines of a round table bringing together experts from the region, likely to propose solutions for the future, on themes as diverse as economic development local, support for young people, security, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit. Around Pierre Gattaz, former president of Medef, and Christian Trono, Gwennola Colléter, departmental military delegate of the Alpes-Maritimes, Murielle Lemoine, delegated director for professional and technological training at the Raynouard multipurpose high school in Brignoles, Patrick Caternet, director of Château Margillière and the Barbaroux golf course, each made their contribution to this evening of reflection before the launch of the Var branch of the IDS was announced, of which the Excellium group will be the first sponsor.
A big family
It must be said that this national initiative is consistent with the spirit of Nicopolis Avenir, a strong association of around a hundred members in the Nicopolis business zone managed by the Provence Verte agglomeration community where some 200 industrial companies and more than 2,000 are located. jobs, over an area of 300 ha.
At the rate of a monthly company visit, the idea is to create synergies and fruitful exchanges between entrepreneurs in the area. “The goal is to share problems and solutions, Nicopolis is like a big family.”specifies Emmanuel Krutten, head of the company Meilleur vin Provence and vice-president of Nicopolis Avenir. The association is also run by Marine Finot, at the head of the Brignoles communications agency of the company 360 by Afexios, an offshoot of the accounting firm Afexios Provence of which she is a partner, also based in Nicopolis.
Nicopolis Avenir is also at the origin of the Rosé run, a walking race around the Nicopolis area which brings together some 500 entrepreneurs and employees under the colors of their respective companies, each year at the start of the school year in September, and offers annual meetings, such as that of March 26. « The idea is to maintain the link »indicates the trio. And also to relay the needs of the economic world.
