Valorisation Patrimoine Sud Tarn
Panel 10
The broker and the commercial organization of fellmongery
For the sale of the products, "the broker is a crucial component of the Mazamet commercial system."
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Established in the market, it is the broker who receives
customer requests, searches for batches that meet
these demands, and ultimately purchases them
on behalf of the client. It's not the industrialist who has
the clientele, it's the broker.
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Brokers are essential pillars of our market...
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Thanks to their number and that of their clients, brokers
can foster competition and enable merchants
to optimize their sales...
From the outset of the first Mazamet sheepskin wools,
brokers have indeed strived to find lucrative placements
for them, thereby encouraging our initial importers
to continue and expand their operations...
Edouard Cormouls-Houlès doesn't hesitate to describe brokers as "pioneers of Mazamet's commercial expansion."