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If a backup plan makes it possible to maintain their activity for three months, no buyer will take over the Plélan-le-Grand factory.
The site of the Fleury Michon delicatessen-catering group in Plélan-le-Grand (Ille-et-Vilaine), where around a hundred employees work, will close in May for lack of a buyer, we learned from management on Wednesday. and from union sources. On Monday, Fleury Michon had put in place a job protection plan (PSE) to temporarily ensure the activity of the factory, for three months. The first meeting on the conditions of the PES for the “103 employees – 101 on permanent contracts and 2 on fixed-term contractsis scheduled for Monday.
The management of the group with 3,500 employees regrets that “after four months of intensive research and discussions with 8 potential buyers, no company has formulated a sufficiently precise purchase offer based on an economically and socially viable project“. “Given the general context, employees are worried. This is why I and the CSE will do everything possible to support them.“Says Lionel Goltais, CFDT union representative. A crisis cell was also opened on Tuesday.
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Already, since October 2022, concern had been rising in the ranks of the factory. “Anxiety and fear affect the morale of employees about their future“, then underlined the trade unionist. On October 21, the management of Fleury Michon announced a plan to sell its plant in Plélan-le-Grand, which produces cooked meats for mass distribution. To justify itself, the group evokes “a drop in activity. After successive crises and a very volatile and inflationary economic context, the Plélan industrial site suffered significant volume losses linked to a drop in sales“.
The group is committed to its employees to prioritize “saving their jobs“, especially since 25% of the workforce is between 50 and 55 years old. An insufficient device, according to Lionel Goltais: “It’s with great regret that it ends like this… What we also regret is Fleury Michon’s poor strategy over the past few years.» «Fleury Michon did not fight for Plélan, they made maintenance investments but they did not bring new productions“, He regrets, also pointing to the recent closure by the group of “two factories in Slovenia and Italy“.
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