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CRAFT INDUSTRY
The Charente has 5 920 craft-based firms (12/31/10), with 12 290 salaried employees.
(Source: Charente Guild Chamber on 12/31/09).

Number of craft firms by activity sector:
• Food (with meat and fish): 706
• Metalwork: 273
• Textiles-leather-clothing: 75
• Wood and furnishings: 355
• Other manufacturing: 349
• Building: 2536
• Transport, repairs, services: 1626

If this is broken down into main sectors, 2 areas stand out as significant - building and services :

• Building 42.8 %
• Services 27.5 % (transport, repairs, services)
• Production 17.7 % (metalwork, textiles-leather-clothing, wood and furnishings, other manufacturing)
• Food 12 %

• 66 % of company directors are aged between 40 and 59 years old.
The working population employed in the craft industry stood at 19 312 on 01 January 2009, and can be broken down as follows : 36 % were company directors, 64% salaried employees and 2 % the director's spouse.
 
 
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