Economy of Haute-Savoie

Activities

Agriculture

agricultural Surface: 151.270 hectares (1999), 150.000 hectares (at the end of 2006) of useful agricultural surface
Surface in forest: 173.000 hectares (1999)
Many farmers: 4.450 (1999), 4.800 owners plus 1.700 employee jobs at full-times (at the end of 2006)

Distribution of the final agricultural production

vegetable production: 71,5 million euros (1999)
livestock production: 165,4 million euros (1999)

cheese-making Production (1999)

Reblochon: 16.950 tons (1999), including 79,6% in reblochon dairy and the farm remainder in reblochon.
Volume of Savoy: 5.500 tons (1999)
Emmental: 4.050 tons (1999), 3.000 tons (2006)
Scraper with believed milk: 2.000 tons (1999)
Abundance: 700 tons (1999)
Volume of the Wallows: 650 tons (1999)

Craft industry

The craft industry occupied at the end of 2000,15% of the active population, that is to say 28.443 paid and 1.922 apprentices and represented 11.951 companies registered with the Répertoire of the Trades, divided into:

food: 955
building: 4.924
production: 2.834
services: 3.238

Construction industry

The sector of the construction industry, counted at the end of December 2000, 13.867 paid in 4.838 companies divided into

carcass work heavy castings: 20%
the second work: 70%
public works: 10%

Wood

Trade

The sector commercial counted at the end of December 2000, 33.994 paid in 9.351 companies divided into:

culture and leisures: 23,7%
food: 22,5%
hygiene and health: 15,2%
équiepement of the person: 14,3%
cars, motor bikes, cycles: 13,1%
equipment of the house: 11,2%

Large surfaces

At the end of 2006, the department had 600 commercial establishments of more than 300 m2, for an entire surface of 705.419 m2, including/understanding:

13 hypermarkets (78 105 m2)
92 supermarkets (112 844 m2)
24 maxidiscounts (17 600 m2)
6 department stores and popular stores (14 640 m2)
465 specialized stores (482 230 m2)

From 1998 to 2005,65 new large surfaces were built, for a surface of 50.000 m2.

At the end of indicator 2006 of the activities, all confused trade:

equipment of the culture and the leisures: 24,6%
food: 20,7%
hygiene-health: 16,0%
equipment of the person: 13,7%
equipment of the hearth: 11,5%

Spend average 2006 per capita: 21 706,34 €. Since the increase of the euro (2004-2007), the Swiss customers are a little bit less present, about -5/- 6%, whereas it represents half of the turnover in the high-Savoyard sector of the Genevese.

The traditional small shop, less than 300 m2, accounts for at the end of 2006,84% of the number of the trade, but only 40% of the sales areas.

Foreign trade

In 1999, the deposit rate of exports compared to the imports was of 170,06% (for France it was of 103,58%). 40% of the top-Savoyard employees work directly for export.

Exports are mainly made towards: Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Italy and the United Kingdom.

The imports come mainly from: Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States.

Companies of Haute-Savoie

4.301 companies were created in 2004 in Haute-Savoie, that is to say +5,3% compared to 2003 including nearly 80% in the tertiary sector with a preponderance for the service with the private individuals (hotels, restaurants, activities of leisures, cultural and sporting, personal services and servants). The trade in general accounts for 21,6% of creations of companies.

Four industrial sectors are particularly dynamic: the real estate (+24%), construction (+15,4%), services with the companies (+12,4%) and agribusiness industry (+10%).

Industry

List industrial companies established in Haute-Savoie

In 1999, Haute-Savoie counted 2.779 establishments of industrial production, that is to say (13,60%) of the whole of the companies.

Agro-alimentary : Entremont, Evian (mineral water), Céréal-Partners France, the Savoyard Sheaf, France-Decoration, Besnier, Fruity.
Chemistry-Pharmacy : Labcatal, Nicholas Rock, Pierre Fabre Galderma - SICPA - Ivoclar - Cornéal, SNCI, Anthogyr.
Trade : Provencia, Botanic
Electrical engineerings and electronic : Dassault, Alcatel Vacuum Technology, Chauvinistic-Arnoux, DAV, Label, HPF, Cartier, Varilac CEB.
Equipment of the house - electric household appliances : Tefal, Scaime Middle-class, Mobalpa, Somfy.
Equipment of the person: Gillette, S.T. Dupont, Gay Rexam Reboul, Maped, Pile.
Data-processing : Sopra, Abel Guillemot, Compaq, Systems Cross-country race.
Machine tools and special machines: Stäubli, Alcatel Vacuum Technology, Prosys, Mach 1 Techmeta, Wirth and Gruffat, Mecasonic, Almo.
Mechanical : SNR Bearings, Bosch, Parker, Vandervell Glacier, KSB Guinard Pumps, Invensys, Eurodec, Frank and Pignard, Bouverat, Nicomatic.
special Metals and materials : PSB Industries, SICN, Pechiney Rhenalu, Fonlem, Lachenal.
Plastic : Veka, SMPI, Decoplast.
Sport and leisures Solomon (ski), Dynastar, Millet, Fusalp, Eider duck.
others : Velsol France, Paper mills of Léman, Pel-Job - Mecalac Vulli, Paper mills of Notch.

Undercutting

The Décolletage is the industry of the machining of parts of utmost precision, high-Savoyard undercutting accounts for 63% of French undercutting in turnovers, 20% of the industrial companies of the department, with a growth rate of 7% in the year 2000.

Its main customers by decreasing industrial sector are the car, electronics and the électoménager.

Seek

The high-Savoyard research sector, deposited 201 patents in 2000 and is represented by:

the Physics laboratory of the particles with Annecy-the-Old man;
research laboratories, related on ESIA and the IUT;
the Technical center of undercutting (CTDEC), with Cluses;
Thesame - mecatronic and management: computer-integrated manufacturing, sensors (measurements and instrumentations), manufactoring process, sciences of the services.

Services

The service sector counted at the end of December 2000, 75.768 paid in 11.129 companies divided into:

Hotels and restaurants: 26,5%
real activities: 24,6%
council and assistance: 14,0%
Transport: 6,1%
financial activities: 6,2%

Tourism

The sector of tourism represented at the end of December 2000, 635.000 beds divided into:

1250 rural lodgings
803 hotels
453 rooms of hosts
191 camp-sites
70 lodgings of stage-stays
40 refuges of high-mountain

Over 1999, the frequentation assembled herself in 37,9 44% and night million, including 56% in winter for the remainder of the year.

Social

Employment

total Active population resident : : 314940 (1999) of which having an employment: : 295099 (93,70%)

Private sector : : 176743 (1999) is 59,89%, of which: BTP: 6,3%, Industry: 23,6%, Trade: 14,4% and Services: 53,4%

Characteristic : Many high-Savoyard workers is employed in the French-speaking cantons Switzerland. The figures are of: 25721 high-Savoyard crosses border dailies to work end 1999, of: 35075 end 2002 and of: 52202 at the end of November 2006 in growth of 12% over 2007.

Unemployment rate : 8,2% in December 1998, 7,6% in December 1999, 6,3% in November 2000 and 5,8% in January 2007.

Applicant for work : : 19466 (end 2003) -: 16257 in August 2006: 15448 in January 2007.

Residences

Average costs with the sale by sector :

In 2006: Annecy 2.853 €/m - Annemasse 2.239 €/m - Chamonix 5.125 €/m - Clusaz 4.249 €/m - Saint-Julien-in-Genevese 2.800 €/m - Thonon-the-Baths 2.340 €/m.

Teaching

For rentée of September 2000, the Haute-Savoie had:

198 nursery schools and 450 elementary schools, accommodating 73.260 pupils;
28 colleges of mainstream education and 20 colleges of vocational training, accommodating 22.663 pupils;
68 colleges, accommodating 36.894 pupils;
35 CFA-UFA, accommodating 3.443 apprentices;
14 establishments of agricultural training, accommodating 2.990 pupils.

Higher education, always in 1999, trained 8.052 students, divided in:

classes BTS, accommodating 1.924 students;
the IUT of Annecy-the-Old man (University of Savoy), accommodating 1.720 students;
the University of engineers d' Annecy (Polytech' Savoy), accommodating 387 students;
the UFR tertiary sector of companies, accommodating 599 students;
preparatory classes at the universities, accommodating 599 students;
the IPAC, accommodating 550 students;
University center of 3rd cycle of Archamps, accommodating 400 students;
the School of infimières, accommodating 238 students;
the School of Arts, accommodating 155 students;
various (IUFM, ITII, ENIL…), accommodating 1.475 students;

Taxes

Tax of dwelling :

In 2006: 312.823 household for tax purposes of which 27.747 are exonerated.

Sources

Assedic (January 2000)
BTP 74 (January 2000)
CER/DDAF 1999
Room of Agriculture
Guild chamber (December 2000)
Customs
file SIREN of INSEE (July 2003)
CDEC
Chamber of commerce

See too

Chamber of commerce and of industry of Haute-Savoie

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