This Saturday and Sunday, Castex will be both at Matignon and at the Élysée, but in the residence of the Head of State.
It will not be about Jean, the Prime Minister, but Alphonse, the creator, in 1870, of the Manufacture Castex.
Its heritage, the quilts, duvets and other cushions made of duck and goose feathers, is exhibited during the second edition of the Great Exhibition of made in France.
“This is not a salon.
We explain our know-how to visitors, but have to leave our business cards at home ”
, details Béatrice Nalpas Cala, who will represent the company with 5.6 million euros in turnover located in Dax (Landes). With the other 125 lucky winners, manufacturers of table footballs (Billards Toulet), lingerie (Lingerie Indiscrète) or even airplane propellers (Collins Aerospace) and rum (Héritiers H. Clément), she will have lunch at the Ministry of the Economy this Friday, then will have dinner with the President of the Republic.
"We are showing our anniversary collection made in partnership with Tissage Moutet, another company more than a century old in our region"
, details the director of operations. She joined the adventure in 2012 to design the manufacture's website with Vincent Bourretère-Castex, CEO and representative of the fourth generation of the Castex family. If there is no family link with the Prime Minister, she can only appreciate the spotlight given by this disambiguation.
“To messages on social networks such as 'sleep with Castex, me never!', We respond with humor that you do not choose your name, but you choose your duvet,”
smiles Béatrice Nalpas Cala.