Regional Company Visit Days

Published on September 11 2025

Explore behind the scenes of local know-how!

From October 15 to 25, 2025, La Roche-sur-Yon and its surrounding area will vibrate to the rhythm of Regional Days of Company Visits in Pays de la Loire.

This unique event invites you to push open the doors of Vendée companies and to delve behind the scenes of exciting professions, often unknown to the general public.

An immersion in the heart of the local economy.

For ten days, a wide variety of actors open their workshops, factories and laboratories. You will discover universes as gourmet as they are technical : wines, artisanal soups, dry cured meats, chocolate, traditional pottery, organic essential oils, but also robotics, industrial innovation, wood construction and even urban transport.
Each visit is an opportunity to understand a skill, meet enthusiasts and share a unique experience.

From urban cellar to robotic factory!

Let yourself be guided by an itinerary rich in discoveries:

• Start with a chai winemaking in the heart of La Roche-sur-Yon, where two urban winemakers are reinventing tasting.
• Then go behind the scenes of a culinary workshop to understand how a Vendée artisanal soup.
• Explore an industrial site where the I-beams and timber construction solutions who build our houses.
• Discover the behind the scenes of the network Impuls'yon, which gets thousands of residents of the city moving every day.
• End with a robotics course immersive at the heart of industry 4.0, where innovation and new technologies combine with education.

Tradition, innovation and delicacy

These company visits in Vendée are also an opportunity to travel through time and flavors. Nesmy pottery, heir to a family tradition since 1857, Salvia Laboratories who design organic food supplements, each step brings you closer to the history and local know-how. Not forgetting the gourmet discoveries: the Fab Dryer and its “sausage cathedral” or even the Gelencser Chocolate Museum, a paradise for gourmets.

Regional Company Visit Days are accessible to all: families, the curious, craft enthusiasts or innovation lovers. Each visit site offers a lively and friendly immersion, between demonstrations, explanations and tastings.