One ‘business’, or rather ‘institution’, a pillar of the local economy, keeps cropping up on this site: the Pompadour National Stud. Besides the development of tourism, in which it plays an active part by opening its doors to visitors every day, and by exploiting its heritage, it is appearing here as a service provider, although it’s business is mainly geared to farming and breeding. But it offers:

• breeders: national stallions (a paid service), thereby favouring the expansion in horse-breeding,

• associations: its facilities for organising competitions and shows. All this means that horse-related business produces an impact of €706,594 on the local economy!

The establishment of the Headquarters of the National Stud in the Pays de Pompadour has likewise attracted numerous employees or favoured recruitment. They are playing an excellent rôle in maintaining employment in our area.

Since it was founded in 1219 by Archambaud VI, Viscount of Comborn, Glandier Charterhouse has seen many alterations. Occupied by Carthusian monks from the 13th century till the French Revolution, it was later the forge of Jean-Baptiste Pouch-Lafarge (of ‘Lafarge Affair’ fame), becoming the property of the Carthusians once again from 1860 to 1904. It was bought in 1920 by the Préfecture of the département of Seine.

Since then, Le Glandier has become a sanatorium, then a preventorium, for children and women from Seine. By 1965, demand for places for children with tuberculosis had diminished, so it was decided to turn the preventorium into a Psychotherapy centre for “semi-educable retarded children”. On 5th January 1966, a first group of “retarded” children was received at Le Glandier, run by the département of Paris.

Fresh restructuring was needed to set up new facilities for the reception of handicapped adults.

- Specialised Reception Centre, in 1986
- Occupational Therapy Centre, in 1987
- O.T.C. Home, in 1987
- Occupational Home, in 1988
- Expansion of the Occupational Home into the Château de Lubersac, in 1989
- Expansion of the O.T.C., in 1995 & 1996
- Creation of a follow-up service annexed to the O.T.C. Home in 1995 & 1996

So the Centre, run by the département of Paris, is a public medico-social establishment (Act of 30/6/1975).

The Le Glandier Centre has several departments:

• Administrative department:
Personnel, accounting and secretarial services.

• Medical & social department:
A permanently-open infirmary with special facilities. Six nurses and a manager accept patients for variable lengths of time.

Other professionals complement these services:
  - general practitioners
  - psychiatric doctors
  - doctors in preventive medicine
  - psychologists
  - physiotherapists
  - psychometrician
  - dietician
  - welfare worker.

Special facilities allow for special needs (gymnasium, hydrotherapy, outdoor playground with training apparatus).

• Educational services:
Consists of staff, almost all with degrees, covering a range of functions:
  - Supervisor and socio-educational manager
  - Specialised teacher, teacher/instructor, general and psychiatric nurse, care assistant,
medico-psychological assistant.

• Technical services:
Run by a Head of Department, several specialist tradesmen carry out running repairs, as well as more major conversion work, with the aim of maintaining the living environment and the quality of life and the facilities. The Centre has gardeners, electricians, plumbers, drivers, a carpenter, mason, tiler, and cleaning operative.

• General services:
Run by a Head of Department, several services meet specific needs:
  - Kitchen: one for the O.T.C. Home and the O.T.C.
                 one for the Château de Lubersac
                 one central kitchen
  - Laundry & linen: laundry, repairs, making curtains and various items of linen.
  - Premises cleaning and visitor reception
  - Foodstuffs and cleaning materials stores.

BP 1 - 19 231 ARNAC-POMPADOUR
Tel: +33 (0)5 55 73 89 00
Fax: +33 (0)5 55 93 53 79
www.sicame.com

a] History

The firm of SICAME was founded in 1955 by Basile Lachaud, a qualified engineer from Pompadour. He was assisted in his business by Marcel Prodel from Troche, an engineer from the Ecole Centrale. The purpose of this business was the design and production of connectors and fixings for low- and medium-voltage networks.

After 1970, SICAME expanded, laying the foundations of the present Group by buying up French companies, setting up abroad, and establishing an International Trading Company (SICAMEX). In January 1979, Pierre François took over running the company and the SICAME Group, assisted by J-Pierre Boutin.

Pompadour is the base of France’s leading group for the production of accessories for electricity transport and distribution. MECATRACTION, a subsidiary of SICAME whose Director is Mr Peyramaure, is also based on this site.

b] Some figures

• SICAME Group: 1,550 employees
• SICAME in Pompadour: turnover € 23·48m – 430 employees
• MECATRACTION : turnover € 16m – 135 employees.

13, rue du Bois Vert
19 230 ARNAC-POMPADOUR
Tel: +33 (0)5 55 73 80 00  -  Fax: +33 (0)5 55 73 30 64

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