ECONOMY


The Champagne-Ardenne is a region very stretched of the North in the South. 
She is shared between three big zones of attraction, the Lorraine, the North and the Region Parisian. 
The center corresponds to the country of the verminous Champagne. 

She lost her reputation of big poverty. 
Until the beginning of the century she had the soils of bad quality. She knew how to achieve amendments, of drainage, to use manures. The mechanization modified productions and the landscape. 
But she is a zone to very weak demographic density. 

Of all time, the Champagne-Ardenne was a zone of crossroads. To the Aged Means, the trade route of Italy toward the Flanders crossed the West part of the present Champagne. 
The first reason of the city existence as Reims or Troyes were fairs of this time. 
Today again, it is there that the dynamism of island-of-France all near makes himself the more to feel.

It is also in this part that a remarkable business current is generated by one of the most prestigious vineyards of the world. 

Unique case among all regions, the administrative capital is a city of second importance. 
Indeed for a lot of services, including in the public tertiary sector as universities, the capital is Reims. 
The geographical position of the extremity South seems again badly exploited. 
The ample valley of the Marne is dominated by the High-Marne, that is a chalky tray region. 
It can be an incontestable asset for the region. 
Two freeways he to 4 of Paris-Strasbourg and him to 26 assures the junction between Europe of the North and the Southeast of France. 

Other projects are to the survey for infrastructures of transports. 
They reposition the region like a point of passage. 
The Champagne-Ardenne present above all a picture of success in agriculture. 
She represents 11% of the value added regional, by reason of the world renown of his/her/its vineyards. 
But also of part an elevated production in cereals, and sugar beet. 

All these activities condition numerous industries. 
One finds factories of dehydrations, of distilleries, of malt factories, of sweets; but also of farm equipment industries, products of manure. 
In number of salaried employee, the agro-food industry is the third regional activity. 

The region arranges an industrial strength. The traditional activities and the new poles of development himself coasts there. 
The textile-clothing has a strong concentration in the dawn. 
One finds there notably Benetton, Devanlay, Jacquemard and Small Boat. 

The hosiery, to Troyes, dominate the sector with the manufacture of socks, layettes, pullses, sportwears and under clothes. 
The agro-food industry has for basis the production of sweets and champagnes. 
She is situated effectively in the Marne. 
One finds there societies like Moêts and Chandon, Mumm, Taitinger; but as General Foods, Lu and Miko.