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PROJECT FINANCED FROM PUBLIC ALLOCATED FUNDS

Compensation for additional freight costs linked to the outermost periphery

HSE, like all industries established in the outermost territories of the European Union, must face numerous challenges linked to its geographical remoteness and its insularity..

In order to compensate for the additional costs linked to structural handicaps resulting from ultra-peripherality and insularity, the operational program of the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) finances freight aid which aims to compensate part of the additional transport costs. (transport expenses including insurance, handling costs and temporary storage before removal) of raw materials and intermediate products from the EU in order to reduce our unit supply costs.

This aid is fundamental in order to ensure the competitiveness of local businesses and limit additional product costs.

Ce projet est cofinancé par le Fonds Européen de Développement Régional / le Fonds Social Européen dans le cadre du PO FEDER-FSE Martinique.

    1.  Project co-financed by the European Union as part of the FEDER-FSE Operational Program 2007-2013 and by the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique

2015: MODERNIZATION OF THE PACKAGING LINE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A WINERY

This project contributes to several objectives :

– Increase the volumes aged,

– Meet the requirements of the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée “Rhum Agricole”
Martinique »,

– Continue the qualitative development of our old rums,

– Respond to a rapidly growing demand from the French market in particular but also from exports in the old agricultural rums segment.

    1.  Projects co-financed by the European Union as part of the FEDER-FSE 2014-2020 Operational Program and by the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique

2015: CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGING CELLAR AND ACQUISITION OF NEW OAK BARRELS

This project contributes to several objectives :

– Increase production,
– In particular, allow us to be able to respond to an increasing demand
stronger on our old rums, particularly on export markets,
– Enable the continuation of the strong approach to “product” innovation and research and development on our various old rums, thus contributing to the reputation of the HSE brand.

2021: ACQUISITION OF A PACKAGING LINE AND INCREASE IN AGING CAPACITY

This project contributes to several objectives :

– Modernization of the production tool,
– Increase in the aging capacity and the production and diversification capacity of old rums,
– Increase in market shares,
– Safeguarding and perpetuating jobs,
– Improvement of working conditions.

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LES FOUDRES HSE

This space, recently inaugurated January 22nd 2010 by Mr. Edouard Glissant, in HSE’s former storehouses, is dedicated to the different aesthetic and artistic disciplines: visual artists, photographers, writers, poets and musicians. A place for exhibiting, sharing and getting together.

The Foudres HSE, as such, perpetuate the cultural vocation that the Habitation Saint-Etienne has been kindling since its rejuvenation in 1994.

Visitors are invited to discover and taste HSE’s range of rums in this exceptional setting.

USEFUL INFORMATION

Foudres HSE Habitation Saint-Etienne 97213 Gros Morne.
Permanent exhibition, free admission.
From Monday to Sunday from 9:00 am to 17:00 pm.
Guided tour on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2:30 p.m.

Information: +596 (0)5 96 57 49 32
contact@rhumhse.com

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ART

THE VAULT

THE FOUDRES HSE

The Foudres HSE is located at the heart of the Habitation Saint Étienne. Today, the unique architectural structure, recorded on the French Supplementary Historic Monument List, is one of the last and finest examples of the traditional heritage of Martinique.

AREA OF CULTURE

Transformed into an area of culture and art, the Foudres HSE was originally used as an aging cellar. It is an original space, equipped with a bar, a sound system, a projection screen, special lighting for exhibitions, coffee tables, chairs and cosy club chairs… Depending on the setup, it can accommodate 80 to 150 people. The Foudres HSE regularly hosts concerts, conferences, screenings, lectures and live performances: it is a great interactive meeting place, open to artists, researchers, poets, musicians and more.

EXHIBITIONS

Following the inaugural exhibition of 2010 by the photographer Jean-Luc de Laguarigue, “le Pays des Imaginés” (Country of Imagination), which took the visitor on an excursion through the poetical world of Edouard Glissant, Les Foudres HSE have hosted other exhibitions:

Victor Anicet “Les Grands projetés de l’histoire” (Grand Projects of History), 2012-2013

Ernest Breleur “Peintures 1989-1994″ (Paintings 1989-1994) in 2013- 2014

Jean-Luc de Laguarigue, “Requiem pour une île, Nord Plage” (Requiem for an Island, North Beach) 2014-2015

And dont forget at the moment, you can discover the works of the artist FEDERICA MATTA. Exhibition” THE JOURNEY OF IMAGINATION ” opened also the weekend.

For more information on arts news, click here !

HISTORY

LOOKING BACK

Saint Etienne was modelled after “La Maugée”, a sugar refinery covering over 400 hectares from Gros Morne to Saint Joseph in the early 19th century. The architectural structure, including the master’s house, overlooking the distillery and the old workers’ huts, reflect a typical farm in Martinique.

In 1882, Saint Etienne was purchased by Amédée Aubéry, a young captain of industry who became one of the most famous figures in the economy of Martinique. He transformed the sugar refinery into a farm distillery and began to modernise infrastructures. He expanded the factory and built a beautiful façade with 28 curved windows, providing the building with optimal ventilation. Railways were set up near the distillery: draft animals pulled trolleys carrying sugar cane. Hydraulic power was provided by the River Lézarde through a stony canal that ran through the Creole garden.

In 1909, the property came into the possession of the Simonnet family who developed the distillery activity until its decline at the end of the 1980s. The estate was taken over in 1994 by Yves and José Hayot, who relaunched the Saint-Etienne brand and began restoring and enhancing the sugar estate’s architectural heritage. The distillery, henceforth registered in the Additional Inventory of French Historic Monuments, is one of the only-remaining and most precious references of the craftsmanship and aesthetic appeal of industrial architecture of the end of the 19th century in Martinique. Its renovation is nearing completion.

Extract from « Elmire des sept bonheurs »

“A hundred years of rhetoric floats over the Habitation Saint-Etienne… countless cherished secrets too. A crystal ball of secrets that links 1883 and days gone-by to the present day. A treasure-trove of little secrets, ancient knowledge, pure knowledge that only the cultivators of these lands hold the key to.

Of course, we could bring to mind the Gros-Morne (big hill), a land beyond compare. Or the sun rising over the Lézarde River, whose murmur weaves its way through the estate, from Lake Zoumba to Lake Désir, then on to Lake Fourchette and Lake Tambi.

But, first and foremost, it’s Father Simonnet, with his golden watch, and Zolbè, the sugarcane cutter. It’s Théolomène, the ‘séancier’, or medicine man, who worked with the fertilizers, and Colocomède, the ‘oursmamé’, the good stone mason, who built the reinforced-concrete chimney stack at Saint-Etienne, like a palm symbolising victory, dominating the hills.

Then, there was Man Amélya Sérénisse, who spent his whole life cleaning the fermentation containers and bottling; Pè DèDè, who drove the Trabot cart, whose massive wheels were shipped directly from France; and Isidore Adélodaine, the ‘ababa’ (the dazed one), who looked after the garden. The people of Saint-Etienne would always come together, over the years, when the first droplets dripped into the copper cauldron.

Legends, secrets, a thousand fine words… right here, before our eyes, a century of living, of patience, of work, of intelligence unveils itself. This rum, this nectar over which distillers weep with reverential rage throughout the Caribbean… yes, it was us, we concocted it”.

Patrick Chamoiseau, extract from: Elmire des sept bonheurs, confidences d’un vieux travailleur de la distillerie Saint-Etienne (Elmire, of the seven sources of happiness, memories of a former worker from the Saint-Etienne distillery) (Gallimard 1998)

CONTACT

SAS A. VALOIS & CIE

ZAC du Camp Dolent Avenue du Cantipou 76700 Harfleur FRANCE
Tel. +33 (0) 2 35 13 05 30 Fax +33 (0) 2 35 45 63 41
Contact : Carole Leblond - infos@rhumhse.com 

HSE HABITATION SAINT-ETIENNE

97 213 Gros-Morne MARTINIQUE
Tel. : + 596 (0) 596 57 62 68 Fax : + 596 (0) 596 57 54 11
Contact : Cyrille Lawson - infos@rhumhse.com

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