The Government has announced this Wednesday that it will launch a plan to help establish companies in towns that do not have them, with a global endowment of 12 million euros throughout 2023 to support a project of up to 80,000 euros for a physical trade and 20,000 euros for an itinerant trade.
“The State will support the installation in rural areas of sedentary multi-service stores as well as mobile stores to serve various rural municipalities,” announced the Government in a press release signed by the Delegate Minister of Commerce Olivia Grégoire and Communities. Territoriality and Rurality Dominique Faure.
This program “is aimed at promoters of projects that can be public or private, specifying that private promoters must necessarily have the support of the municipality of establishment,” the government specifies, according to which the registration table will be opened, with the prefectures . On March 1
Specifically, the acquisition of premises and their rehabilitation “may be covered up to 50% with a limit of 50,000 euros”, the “rehabilitation of the premises and the acquisition of professional equipment” may be supported up to 20,000 euros, or even 25,000 euros “if the project is of special interest in terms of sustainable development, or an innovative character in its economic model”.
As examples, “short circuits, integration of disadvantaged audiences, involvement of the local associative fabric, experimentation with a shared collection place for digital orders” are cited.
Food companies are in the spotlight
For traveling companies, the State could subsidize up to 20,000 euros, particularly for the acquisition of a professional tourism vehicle, “with a limit of 50% of the investment cost.”
To this set can be added “a grant of 5,000 euros maximum for the support services that you can use to design, implement and make your project a reality”.
The objective mentioned by Olivia Grégoire is “to quickly provide a commercial offer to the inhabitants of 1000 rural municipalities,” she said in this press release.
The prefectures must collect the files at the level of their department, in a logic of “balanced geographical distribution” and make an initial selection before raising it to the level of the ministries, said his cabinet during a telephone press conference on Wednesday. Rather, it is the food companies that are in the crosshairs.
The same source specified that at the moment “there is no announcement about the renewal of the device” after 2023, but that, “if it were successful”, the government “would do everything possible to renew it”.
Source: BFM TV
