Mossant was a famous bran of hat manufactured in France and well-known in the United States for most of the twentieth century. The company was founded by Charles Mossant in the nineteenth century, and by 1929 more than 2,000 hats a day were being produced. Half of them were directly shipped to the U.S. Hat production ended in 1998. The Mossant factory was in Bourg-de-Péage and it has been renovated as a commercial centre.