The site of the catering-charcuterie group Fleury Michon in Plélan-le-Grand (Ille-et-Vilaine), where around a hundred employees work, will close in May for lack of a buyer, AFP learned on Wednesday from the management and of the union sources.
The management regrets that after “four months of intense research and conversations with eight potential buyers, no company has made a sufficiently precise purchase offer based on an economically and socially viable project”, which has led to “a project closing the site accompanied by a Plano Labor Protection” (PSE).
The production of “certain references” developed in Plélan will stop, while the other references are “currently the subject of discussions with a view to their transfer to another site of the group”, a word from the management of the door specified to AFP. “Fleury Michon is committed to welcoming all employees who wish to join the group’s factories in Vendée,” he added.
“social break”
The first meeting on the conditions of the PSE for the “103 employees – 101 with permanent contracts and 2 with fixed-term contracts” is scheduled for Monday and the closure of the site is scheduled for “end of May”, the union representative of the CFDT told AFP the website Fleury Michon de Plélan, Lionel Goltais. “Fleury Michon has invested millions in various sites in the Vendée in 2023 and we feel sacrificed compared to the group,” he estimated.
“Fleury Michon did not fight for Plélan, they made maintenance investments but did not bring new productions,” lamented Lionel Goltais, who also pointed to the group’s recent closure of “two factories in Slovenia and Italy.” The Fleury Michon CGT denounces in a press release a “social damage” that “follows a restructuring plan, known as the ‘renaissance plan’ implemented in 2017 (…) destroying almost 350 permanent jobs on the sites de Vendee”.
The Vendée family group, which employs 3,500 people at fourteen production sites, recorded in 2021 a consolidated turnover of 705.6 million euros.
Source: BFM TV
