Equal OpportunitiesOur beautiful factories in the South of France are part of the IPSIS Scheme, which offer jobs to handicapped people of all ages.
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Our FactoryWith any business, there comes a time when you can no longer manage everything yourself. We were genuinely horrified by the huge demands made by larger factories, the enormity of their minimum quantities, their huge commissions. We began to despair, when, by sheer chance, we were introduced to a gentleman called Jesus Mereno, who is the Managing Director of IPSIS, a French, state aided scheme to help handicapped people into work. Part of the IPSIS group is a sewing factory that employs 40 people all of whom have various mental or physical handicaps. This is run by a truly wonderful lady by the name of Chantal, she is genuine, frank, positive and was quite content to start with relatively small quantities, when nobody else was. A perfect fit, we have never turned back.
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Elsa 30Their sister factory fill all of our lavender bags. They are two kilometers apart; with frequent deliveries between the two. Elisa 30 is also an IPSIS organization and has fourteen employees who meticulously weigh our lavender, fill the bags and carefully hand tie the bows. Their love of their work and attention to detail is second to none. Elisa 30 has four separate divisions in total: a commercial cleaning service, a motorbike garage, a restaurant, and the assembly factory, and in total they employ over 100 handicapped people. We are genuinely, humbled and proud to be associated with them. The larger factories that once disdained our custom, now court us regularly, but we have our team and they are part of our family now.
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