Jean-Claude Sensemat
Sensemat in the Gestion Geneen Inc. offices in September 2020
Nationality Canada
 France


Jean-Claude Sensemat (born on April 14, 1951 in Fleurance) is a French and Canadian businessman.

Career

From 1970 to 2000, he founded and directed an import/export group of hand and power tool companies that bears his name. The Groupe Sensemat became the largest private employer of the Gers[1] with over 500 collaborators in 1999 and sales totaling 800 million French francs (122 M Euros).[2] The company’s growth is owed to the globalization of trade. As early as 1975, import-export operations were organized with India, China, Romania, Albania and other countries of the Eastern bloc, sometimes using barter and compensation. The Groupe Sensemat became a privileged supplier of the European major hypermarket retailers. Through his tool-manufacturing group, he then acquired many brownfields in the department of the Gers (the Grundig Factory, the Seita buildings, etc.).

Between 1991 and 2007, he was Foreign Trade Advisor for France. [3][4][5][6][7]

As a major player in the department’s economic life, he was a counselor with the Gers’ Bank of France for 6 years. He was Vice President of the Gers’ Employers' Union in 1989, and he founded the Gers’ UNICEF committee in 1988. He also founded a local newspaper: "La Gascogne".

In 1990, he purchased LIP, the renowned watchmaking company that was then in difficulty, and relaunched it. Then, in 1992 he acquired other brands: Achille Zavatta, Teppaz, and Luis Ocaña.[8] In 2000, his strongly coveted hand and power tool group faced problems leading to the lifetime dismissal of a court administrator who was found guilty and imprisoned. The Sensemat Group disappeared.[9][10]

In 2002, he transferred the LIP brand international license to the Gersoise company MGH of Lectoure. That same year, he was named Honorary Consul of the Republic of Albania[11] [12] for thirty-three French departments. He conducted his business from his company based in Toulouse.

In 2007, he immigrated to Canada with his family. He was received by the Canadian government as a Business Immigrant (Investor). In Montreal he founded Gestion Geneen Inc., a business and wealth management company.

In 2013, he created the Editions Duroi in Quebec, Canada.

In 2016, the French businessman, Canadian citizen since 2015, sells the LIP brand to its licensee Jean-Luc Bernerd, President of JLB Brand.

In Canada, together with Gestion Geneen Inc., Family Office of the Sensemat family, he develops and manages his luxury condominium portfolio and trades his financial assets on the Wall Street Stock Exchange and the Toronto TSX.


Awards and honours

official website : https://www.sensemat.com

Publications

  • La Patronade, éditions Olivier Orban, 1988.
  • Un Moment de Gascogne, éditions La Gascogne, 1997.
  • Le Délit d'Entreprendre, éditions de la Mezzanine, 2004.
  • Comment j'ai sauvé LIP, éditions Entreprendre Robert Lafont, 2005.
  • France you betrayed me, éditions Duroi, 2013
  • Sensemat - The Pioneer, éditions Duroi, 2023

References

  1. ↑ "L'emploi départemental et sectoriel en 1998" (PDF). 2000. p. 106. ISBN 9782110676771.
  2. ↑ La Dépêche du Midi. "Le groupe Sensemat en règlement judiciaire". LaDepeche.fr.
  3. ↑ "Jean-Claude Sensemat reconduit conseiller du commerce extérieur". ladepeche.fr. 2000-10-06.
  4. ↑ "Décret du 18 avril 1991 portant nomination de conseillers du commerce extérieur de la France". legifrance.gouv.fr. 1991-04-20.
  5. ↑ "Décret du 30 mai 1994 portant nomination de conseillers du commerce extérieur de la France". legifrance.gouv.fr. 1994-03-06.
  6. ↑ "Décret du 30 septembre 1997 portant nomination de conseillers du commerce extérieur de la France". legifrance.gouv.fr. 1997-10-02.
  7. ↑ "Décret du 16 février 2004 portant nomination de conseillers du commerce extérieur de la France". legifrance.gouv.fr. 2004-02-19.
  8. ↑ "La seconde vie des marques". Le Figaro.
  9. ↑ "L'administrateur judiciaire est en prison". ladepeche.fr. 2000-11-15.
  10. ↑ "Toulouse: un administrateur écroué". liberation.fr. 2000-12-01.
  11. ↑ "Exequatur accordés à des consuls". legifrance.gouv.fr. 2003-02-01.
  12. ↑ "Jean-Claude Sensemat consul d'Albanie". ladepeche.fr. 2002-07-03.
  13. ↑ "Décret du 25 février 1989 PORTANT PROMOTION ET NOMINATION (ORDRE NATIONAL DU MERITE)". legifrance.gouv.fr. 1989-02-26.
  14. ↑ "ORDRE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR Décret du 3 avril 1996 portant promotion et nomination". legifrance.gouv.fr. 1996-04-07.
  15. ↑ "Le touche-à-tout a réussi". L'Usine nouvelle. 1997-09-18.
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