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In
the XIXè century, the department of the Aube, still essentially
rural, however points out by its industrial activity .
The most important is the manufacture of cotton and woolen
tissues, and especially hosiery trade appeared to the XVIIIè
century. The manufacture of bottom and gloves replaces bit by
bit the linen weaving mill. It takes advantage of the presence
of spinning mills and of dry cleaner's and the constant
improvements brought to the professions by the local
inventors-mechanics, whose most ingenious are Delarothière and
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In
the second half of the century, Troyes becomes, the helping
industrialization, the capital of the hosiery trade. It
concentrates a device of industrial production which reaches
from 1914 an European level. Organized in field of
production (textile industry, spinning mill, knitting, paint,
preparation), the "troyenne" hosiery trade
constitutes in powerful factories, able of elaborating their
strategy at the national and international levels, and in
additional small and medium-sized companies.
Troyes insures 34 % of the turnover of the French hosiery
trade in 1889 and 54 % in 1914. It is in this date the
incontested capital of this sector, renowned for the quality
of its products, what gives her an important place in the
state economy.
Of
its industrial success, Troyes pulls its urban reality and
its originality. The transfers of the processes of
production of the hosiery trade give a particular importance
for suburbs. Factories, which find in these last ones of the
favorable factors of setting-up, influence their development.
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Up
to there formed rather disorderly, suburbs get organized and take
an aspect suburbanite who anticipates the period of the interwar
period. Involving the functions of production and place of
residence, they eventually form a crown around the old medieval
centre of Troyes.
The district of Bas-Trévois,
stretched along the canal of Trévois, fixes, from the end of the
XIXth century, big spinning mills (Poron, Thévenot), dry
cleaner's (Poron, Millerey, Mathieu) and hosiery shops(Poron,
Desgrez, Raguet, Honnet).
It succeeds on the walks of the cork of champagne, boulevard of
July 14th.
The street of Bas-Trévois is a street of
factories with very big surface, among which dominate the
installations of mechanics, spinning mill, paint and hosiery trade
of the firm Poron. |
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Henceforth,
factories are centralized in new industrial parks adapted to the
current logistic requirements.
Poron,
become filial of the group Zannier, is today, with its mark
"ABSORBA", the first world mark of baby cloth and
clothes for children (0 - 12 years).
She knows a constant development of her turnover which allows her
to sell at the moment about 20 million underclothes, pajamas and
clothes in more than 40 different countries and realizes 70 % of
her business volume there.
She benefits from a tremendous international fame. Star in Europe,
she is present in the South Asiatic East (South Korea, Thailand,
Taiwan), in the United States, in Canada, in Egypt, in Syria, in
Mexico, in Morocco and soon in Argentina. |
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