France Tombale
Who would have thought that the funeral sector would also be uberized? And by a Toulousain moreover! This is in any case the bet of the young start-up company France Tombale that launches on the market online funeral marble and its accessories (plates, urns, vases ...). The idea was born from a meeting between Jérémy Dols who is at his third e-commerce company (read box) and Laurent Pradiès, commercial in the funeral marble for twenty years. Two complementary profiles that aim to offer an online offer "at the right price". For Jérémy Dols, "this sector has been evolving for a long time in opacity with price differences ranging from one to five," he confides, pointing to "some" traders who profit "a bit of the misfortune" of customers. The Toulouse start-up ensures prices average 20% cheaper than traditional trade.
Monuments in kit or landscape
The idea is to provide customers with a website that allows you to compose your own future tomb by choosing the model, the material, the shapes ... all with a 3D simulation tool that makes it possible to obtain a rendering very close to reality. As and when the choice, the price appears clearly to avoid any surprise. "The customer navigates, composes his product without commercial pressure, at home behind his computer" describes Jérémy Dols. Because it is the difference between the funeral that is part of an emergency character with the choice of the coffin and the funeral to manage and the choice of the funeral monument that anticipates very often before the death. Moreover, to guide Internet users, France Tombale has published a white paper that answers questions on the subject: purchase and reservation of a concession, formalities, etc. Once the project is finalized, France Tombale accompanies the family via telephone appointments or e-mails to advance on the integration of the monument in the cemetery, the date of the installation, etc. And in good company of Occitanie, France Tombale favors the granite of Sidobre and not Chinese. "90% of our monuments come from the Tarn. We wanted to highlight the French production of better quality "ensures Laurent Pradiès. A network of specialized carriers and installers ensures installation throughout France.
€ 8 million turnover in 2020
Launched in September 2017, the site has already registered the sale of 80 monuments for an average basket of 2000 € HT. Another innovation, France Tombale offers five models in kit (Monukea) to assemble oneself in order to save the laying costs (790 €) and even a landscape version with plants with slow growth (with annual maintenance contract in option ). Of four employees today, the workforce must reach 15 people by 2020 for a turnover target of € 8 million.
Fictitious import of marble shaping machines from China to Algeria
The security services of Algiers have managed to put an end to the activity of a network of traffickers led by a repentant terrorist. Made up of ten individuals, this network has created five fictitious companies to illegally transfer foreign currency abroad.
This repentant and his accomplices managed to get out of the country, via a banking circuit, more than 7 million dollars. The ten traffickers falsified official documents to establish import companies for marble processing machinery.
The five companies in question have headquarters in Algiers (Eucalyptus) and Dubai. Officially, members of this network say they are specialized in importing marble processing machines from China. But it turns out they never imported anything. On the other hand, they managed to transfer $ 7 million, using extra billing.
The network was dismantled after a thorough investigation by the police who found that the files provided to the banks were falsified. Five members of the network are placed in preventive detention, while the other five are put under judicial control. They are prosecuted for forgery and use of forgery, identity theft and creation of fictitious companies.
New red marble altar from Languedoc for the cathedral of Soisson, France.
Since late February, the wooden altar of the cathedral is covered with a red paper, ribbed white. It is a reproduction of his future appearance. It must be replaced by a block of marble "cherry Carcassonne", dark red.
Indeed, the current altar of Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais was to be temporary.
The diocese has issued a call for donations to finance this new altar
Resumption of Rocamat
Rocalia has scarcely extinguished her fires, that the pure and hard news of the trade regains her rights.
The record of this end of the year and probably early 2018, is obviously that of the future of Rocamat, in receivership since early November. What will happen to the French number one natural stone? Continuing its activities with the same shareholders? The arrival of new owners for a global recovery? Or for a partial recovery with sales of some other assets? The arrival of foreign shareholders?
Answers to these and other questions about Rocamat are a key issue for the French stone industry, which, in this period of economic recovery, needs a fit leader, which boosts promotion and growth. diffusion of the French stone, in the Hexagon and in the World.
A first consequence of the difficult situation of Rocamat, was the election at the head of SNROC of Sylvain Laval who succeeds Pierre Brousse, owner of Rocamat, who had preferred to leave the head of the union, some time before the official announcement of the recovery of his company.
Article by Pierre Actual
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