a community of municipalities winner of the “My city My Artisan 2021” prize
It rewards the actions of communities to develop the local economy and craft businesses on their territory. This Tuesday, November 16, 2021 during the Mayors and Local Authorities exhibition in Paris, the Community of Communes of the Save du Touch (CCST) a receipt on price “My City My Craftsman“. He was initiated by the Chamber of Trades and Crafts France three years ago. This year, he is promoting the creation of the platform “I buy in my city” from the CCST in the category “Innovation / Digital transformation“.
Promote local crafts
The platform was created for the purpose of revitalize local businesses. With the covid, it has notably enabled “traders to remain visible,” says Philippe Guyot, president of the CCST. Through this site, each artisan or merchant can indeed have his own showcase page for highlight your know-how.
It also allows it to provide the useful information on his business. In all, seven towns are integrated into the system: Lasserre-Pradère, Léguevin, Lévignac, Mérenvielle, Plaisance-du-Touch, Sainte Livrade, and La Salvetat-Saint-Gilles. And it is not less than 108 craftsmen and 277 points of sale featured on the platform.
An easy-to-access site
By the way, this project also comes support traders in their digitalization. The site has a intuitive ergonomics with a classification by type of product or municipality. It thus gives consumers easy access to all local businesses. And with son click & collect system, consumers can even order from certain merchants.
A “source of animation”
From the covid, the to place has also “evolved a lot by becoming a animation source regular commercial video promotion and a relay of job offers “, adds the president. Every Tuesday, the site indeed offers news recruitment offers. In the last five months, almost one hundredth of offers have been published, of which 61 permanent contracts signed and more than twenty fixed-term contracts, depending on the platform.
Gift ideas, artisan recipes, producers or traders or courtesy videos behind the scenes of a profession are so many sections to discover for the consumer. A way of “federate traders and residents, “adds the CCST.