What CFPPA/UFST de Marmilhat does

CFPPA/UFST de Marmilhat is a French public educational institution formally designated as an EPLEFPA (Établissement Public Local d'Enseignement et de Formation Professionnelle Agricole), operating under the regulatory and financial authority of the French Ministry of Agriculture with co-funding from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council. The campus is located in Lempdes, Puy-de-Dôme, and serves approximately 1,165 learners across 37 training pathways and 11 specialties. The academic portfolio spans the 3ème professionnelle level through licence and includes elite-grande-école preparatory tracks (CPGE BCPST, Agro-Véto), with secondary schooling delivered by Lycée Louis Pasteur and apprenticeship, continuing professional education, short courses, and Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience (VAE) delivered by the Centre de Formation Professionnelle et de Promotion Agricole (CFPPA).

The campus's core operational assets are three technical platforms that function simultaneously as production units and pedagogical supports: a 281-hectare agricultural exploitation with a dairy production unit (reference volume 500,000 liters annually), a horticultural exploitation, and a fully equipped food-transformation workshop producing jams, soups, pasta, and confectionery. These facilities are vertically integrated into curricula across agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, floristry, agribusiness, biological analysis, and animal-health (Auxiliaire Spécialisé Vétérinaire) specialties. The institution reports a 92.9% exam success rate as a key outcome metric.

The business and revenue model is that of a publicly funded educational establishment rather than a commercial entity. Funding flows from Ministry of Agriculture grants, regional council subsidies, professional training taxes (taxe d'apprentissage), apprenticeship contracts, and continuing-education fees; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The entity has six corporate employees on record (likely a subset of total teaching and technical staff, who are typically state-salaried in French public education), no private ownership, no funding rounds, no M&A activity, and no commercial customer base in the conventional sense. Distribution occurs through five formal training modalities (school-based, apprenticeship, continuing education, short courses, VAE) targeting four primary learner segments: secondary students, apprentices, employed professionals/companies, and job seekers. Marketing relies on a regional government referral ecosystem (Éducagri network, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional channels) and an active social-media presence rather than paid acquisition.

Name

CFPPA/UFST de Marmilhat

Legal name

CFPPA/UFST de Marmilhat

Website

https://cfppa.marmilhat.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

CFPPA/UFST de Marmilhat is a French public agricultural education campus (EPLEFPA) in Lempdes serving 1,165 learners across 37 programs spanning agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, agribusiness, animal health, and preparatory classes, operated under the French Ministry of Agriculture.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lempdes

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CFPPA/UFST de Marmilhat is a public agricultural education campus delivering secondary, vocational, apprenticeship, and continuing professional training across agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, floristry, agribusiness, biological analyses, and veterinary assistance. It operates its own 281-hectare teaching farm, a horticultural exploitation, and a food transformation workshop to enable hands-on professional learning, offering programs from 3ème level through CPGE BCPST Agro-Véto.

Product overview

CFPPA/UFST de Marmilhat operates as an educational campus (EPLEFPA) offering vocational and secondary education programs through two main institutions: Lycée Louis Pasteur provides secondary and higher education from 3ème to preparatory classes, while CFPPA de Marmilhat delivers apprenticeship, continuing education, and short professional courses. The campus includes 11 specializations across 37 training pathways spanning agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, floristry, food processing, commerce, and animal care. Supporting these educational programs are practical facilities including an agricultural farm (281 ha), horticultural production site, and a food processing workshop, enabling hands-on professional training.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lycée Louis Pasteur (Secondary and Higher Agricultural Education) School-based secondary and higher education institution offering programs from 3ème through to preparatory classes for engineering and veterinary schools (BCPST, CPGE Agro-Véto), covering general, technological, agricultural, horticultural, landscaping, commercial, and biological analysis tracks. Intended for collégiens, lycéens, étudiants, and aspiring veterinary/engineering candidates.
• CFPPA de Marmilhat (Professional Training Center) Vocational training center offering apprenticeship programs, continuing professional education, short courses, and VAE (Validation des Acquis de l'Expérience) in agriculture, landscaping, horticulture, floristry, food processing, commerce, and animal care. Targets apprentices, employed professionals, companies, and job seekers.
• Exploitation Agricole (Teaching Farm) Pedagogical agricultural exploitation with 281 hectares of usable agricultural area and a dairy production unit producing 500,000 liters of milk per year. Serves as both a pedagogical support and agricultural experimentation site contributing to territorial agricultural development.
• Exploitation Horticole (Horticultural Production Facility) Horticultural production and sales facility used as a professional training support, conducting agricultural experimentation and demonstration activities to support horticultural education and territorial development.
• Atelier de Transformation (Food Transformation Workshop) Fully equipped professional facility for processing plant-based products including jams, soups, pasta, and confectionery, serving as a practical training environment for agribusiness learners.

Quantifiable outcome

• 92.9% exam success rate
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• French Ministry of Agriculture (Ministère de l'Agriculture)coreOthersOfficial governmental oversight and accreditation body for the EPLEFPA institution. Provides regulatory framework, funding, and institutional legitimacy for all educational programs offered at the campus.
• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional CouncilcoreOthersRegional governmental authority providing territorial support, funding, and administrative oversight for the educational institution located in their jurisdiction.
• Éducagri NetworkminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOfficial French agricultural education network (educagri.fr) listing the establishment and providing distribution through their institutional platform.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• AgroParisTech: France's elite agronomy Grande École, the natural destination for Marmilhat's CPGE BCPST students. Broad incumbent in agricultural higher education; not a direct competitor for vocational training but shapes the upstream student funnel that Marmilhat depends on.
• ESA Angers (École Supérieure d'Agriculture): Private agricultural higher-education group offering engineering degrees, BTS, and professional certificates across plant production, agribusiness, and environment. Broader scope than Marmilhat but overlaps on horticultural and food-processing training in the French market.
• Montpellier SupAgro: Public Grande École specializing in agriculture, food science, and environmental management in southern France. Overlaps with Marmilhat's CPGE BCPST pipeline and several specializations (viticulture, biological analysis), but serves a different regional market.
• Institut Supérieur d'Agriculture (ISA Lille): Private agronomy and agribusiness school in northern France offering engineering degrees and professional bachelors. Comparable to Marmilhat in subject matter (agriculture, food, environment) but different modality (full-time degree vs. apprenticeship/vocational).

Direct peers

• MFR (Maisons Familiales Rurales): National network of French vocational training schools (under Ministry of Agriculture oversight) using apprenticeship and alternance models to train students in agriculture, horticulture, landscaping, and services. Direct competitor for apprentice recruitment and corporate training contracts across rural France.
• ENIL (École Nationale d'Industrie Laitière): Network of French public dairy and food-processing schools offering BTS, CS, and continuing education in agri-food. Direct peer to Marmilhat's food processing workshop and dairy exploitation, with overlapping apprenticeship and continuing-education channels.
• ENSFEA (École Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l'Enseignement Agricole): French national institution training agricultural education teachers and offering continuing education to agricultural education staff. Direct peer within the same Ministry of Agriculture ecosystem, with comparable public-mission profile and continuing-education focus.
• EPLEFPA du Rheu (Campus Théodore Monod): Brittany-based public agricultural education campus combining lycée, CFPPA, and operational farm facilities — a near-identical structural model to Marmilhat. Direct peer for benchmarking program breadth, apprenticeship mix, and learner scale across the French EPLEFPA network.
• EPLEFPA de Tours-Fondettes: Another French public EPLEFPA offering agricultural, horticultural, landscaping, and food-processing vocational training through a similar lycée + CFPPA model. Direct peer because both are state-accredited agricultural education campuses operating under the same Ministry of Agriculture framework with comparable multi-modality training portfolios.

Regional players

• VetAgro Sup: Public higher-education institution located in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Lyon/Marcy-l'Étoile) offering agronomy, veterinary, and food-processing engineering degrees. Regional peer serving overlapping student populations in the same territory and feeding into Marmilhat's CPGE BCPST pathway.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Marmilhat.cfppa
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cfppa-ufst-de-marmilhat
• Instagraminstagram.com/cfppa_marmilhat/?hl=fr

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Investors

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M&A

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