Tremblot-Matheron

"Between 1930 and 1939, he also buys, for a symbolic price, about fifteen textile factories "for scrap," foreshadowing the method used by the Willot brothers thirty years later... He completes his vertical integration by acquiring the Tremblot-Matheron and Rousseau Establishments, which operate about twenty clothing workshops, as well as the Wesserling Printing Manufacture."

"Boussac controls 93.39% of the Comptoir de l’industrie cotonnière and its 40 manufacturing subsidiaries; he holds 95% of the capital of Manufactures de Senones with their 30 subsidiaries, which are more focused on real estate and property. In contrast to a simple commercial structure — the C.I.C.-fabric department, the garment “subsidiaries” (Rousseau, Blainville, Tremblot-Matheron) and “Romanex” and “Jalla” — the legal maze of the 70 companies resembles a termite mound. Through its corridors and shafts transit accounting elements and a lot of money. The tax inspectors who were ordered to venture there have always admitted they got lost there {{id_0000}}{{id_00001}} And with them, the administrative attempts at “adjustments”! Starting in 1954, Boussac pushed concentration of decision-making to the maximum by removing the financial autonomy from all subsidiaries. Their liquid assets are “deposited” to the C.I.C. Alone at the top, Marcel Boussac sets and knows the costs and sale prices: “The balance sheets,” he said, “are for the bankers, the operating accounts are for the accountants, the cash flow is for the business leader!” And to call his chief accountant: “Make me a kitchen account: what’s in my cash drawer?”⁠"

"In addition to acquiring several spinning and weaving mills in the Vosges and Normandy, in Bolbec and Caudebec, including the Desgenetais establishments, Boussac made a strong entry into the printing domain with the acquisition of a globally renowned firm: the Wesserling manufactory in Alsace. Owned since its founding in 1763 by the same family, the Grosroman, which succumbed to the crisis of the thirties, this company, with its future brand of upholstery fabrics “Romanex,” would become one of the jewels of the Boussac empire. The industrialist continued his expansion into clothing with the acquisition of the Tremblot-Matheron establishments in the Centre and with the acquisition of a factory specializing in the manufacture of terry cloth fabrics in Régny, in the Lyonnais. Here too, the “dalla” brand would achieve global recognition."