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Les Eclaireurs survey - Measuring the economic weight of craft and exceptional know-how companies

Alexandre Tabaste

On Tuesday, November 26, theInstitut pour les Savoir-Faire Français unveiled the results of Les Éclaireurs, a ground-breaking survey carried out in partnership with Xerfi Specific, which aims to provide an overall economic vision of the arts and crafts and exceptional know-how landscape, and to measure the technical weight of arts and crafts and exceptional know-how companies.

The results reveal their essential economic contribution, with sales of 68 billion euros in 2023, and nearly half a million employees.

The Bettencourt Schueller Foundation recognized the lack of recent economic data on the artcrafts sector, and asked the Institut pour les Savoir-Faire Français to conduct a study to measure the sector's economic weight. The aim is to provide up-to-the-minute figures, so that the 281 crafts and exceptional skills can be better promoted. The project's initiators: the Institut, the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and XERFI Specific, were joined by the Comité Colbert, the French Ministry of Culture and Terre & Fils.

Key data

  • A sector representing 68 billion euros and 280,000 salaried jobs in France
  • An economic community in which SMEs provide a real dynamic
  • 81% of jobs in arts and crafts are based in the French regions
  • Attractive career paths for adults undergoing retraining
  • Passing on know-how: a challenge to be met!
  • Raising the profile of arts and crafts in France and abroad

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