Priority to products from Occitania for the end of year celebrations

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From appetizers to dessert, including decoration and gifts… In Occitania, the end-of-year celebrations can be organized by buying only products made by companies in the region. The Sud de France brand and Made in Occitanie signature guide you in your shopping.

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Celebrating Christmas and New Year's Eve by buying only regional products is possible. Producers and manufacturers offer such a diversified offer that you will find everything you need to set your table, delight your guests and shower your guests with gifts.

Occitania delights you

Starting with food. Oysters and other Mediterranean products, smoked trout from the Pyrenees torrents, foie gras, free-range poultry and red meats, cheeses, seasonal fruits and vegetables, desserts, wines... The region's emblematic products are easily identifiable thanks to the Sud de France brand, created in 2006 by the Occitanie Region.

With a basket of more than 12,000 products, Sud de France offers a panoramic view of the region's know-how, while helping producers and manufacturers to boost their activity. Combining quality products and the vitality of the regional economic fabric is the goal.

Sud de France products must comply with very strict specifications, guaranteeing an Occitanie origin, and they are regularly checked by an independent body. In addition, to benefit from the brand, companies or farms must have their head office or their processing or packaging site in Occitanie.

Tableware, decoration and gifts

In order to better identify the know-how of regional companies, the Occitanie Region has created a new signature: Made in Occitanie.

It completes the list of purchases for the end of the year celebrations in a beautiful way, by addressing four major sectors with creative vitality, thus brought together: Health/beauty/well-being, Fashion and accessories, Home/decoration/DIY and Crafts. of art.

To be eligible for the Made in Occitanie signature, manufacturing companies and craftsmen must also meet a set of criteria: have at least one establishment in the region; have a recognition of know-how and present a regional character, linked to their history, their roots...

Thus, the list of companies highlighted by "Made in Occitania" is growing. Eau de Cologne, candles, home fragrances, soaps, cosmetics, jewellery, leather goods, durable household appliances, clothing, game hats and wooden puzzles, traditional knives, high-end wooden table, organic bedding, musical instruments … Enough to have fun and make a success of your end-of-year purchases.

Consuming regionally: the Region is mobilizing

As the end-of-year celebrations approach, the Region is launching a campaign entitled "Take the side of Occitanie Products / With Carole Delga, #JeVotePPO", in order to encourage consumers to favor Occitanie products. Its objective is to facilitate the identification of companies representing regional know-how, by making the new signature known to the inhabitants of Occitanie.

In addition, a 'Made in Occitanie' showroom honored this Monday, December 6, 30 emblematic companies of the territory's know-how in the premises of the Hôtel de Région de Toulouse:

Health and well-beingFashion and accessoriesHome, decoration and DIYArts and crafts

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