With the health crisis and the closure of bars and restaurants, large stocks of food have not been sold and are now approaching the expiry date. This represents significant financial losses for artisans and producers. Comments on warehouse images alternate with interviews with Jean-Christophe CAMBIER, artisan brewer, Jean-Paul DECHERF, farmer, and Bertrand ACHTE, Union nationale des producteurs de pommes de terre (UNPT).
Le marché de Rungis connait un succès croissant comme lieu de visite touristique. Un groupe de touristes coréens suit le guide qui les mène du secteur de la fromagerie à celui des fruits et légumes. Chaque mois, il y a environ 1500 touristes qui visitent le plus grand marché de produits frais du monde. La journaliste recueille les impressions du guide Michel Lartigue et d'un vendeur.
L'armée et les CRS sont aux portes de Rungis pour éviter que les agriculteurs n'en fassent le blocus. Dans le secteur de la viande, en prévision du blocage, les horaires de chargement ont été avancées, mais les professionnels ne sont pas inquiets. Depuis l'installation du Marché International à Rungis, personne n'a jamais réussi à en bloquer l'accès. Interviews de Guy Eschalier, président du syndicat des grossistes en viande et de Christian Pépineau, président de la chambre des syndicats grossistes de fruits et légumes.
A Rungis, il n'y a aucun prix affiché sur les marchandises. Les grossistes négocient les prix avec leurs clients au cas par cas et ce, de manière très discrète et secrète. Pierre d'Arco, grossiste en poissons, en explique le principe. Cependant, certains produits ne se marchandent pas, comme les huîtres. A la période des fêtes de fin d'année, les prix peuvent doubler, voire tripler.
"Ici on trouve de tout". Au marché de Rungis, on trouve tous produits alimentaires du quotidien, mais également quelques mets plus surprenants, tels que de la viande de bison, des meules noires de fromage affinées en grotte naturelle de 100 kilos, des énormes pinces de crabes d'Alaska, des citrons "main de Bouddha". Il existe également un bric à brac d'objets décoratifs, avec un surprenant vélo pousse-pousse du Rajastan déniché pari un vendeur.
The new wholesale market has just opened in Rungis in the Val de Marne. Modern infrastructure allows all merchants to have a "tile", a sales space delimited on the ground, connected by a lift to the delivery dock in the basement and an office on the 1st floor. Customers' purchases are weighed on electronic toggle and the computer issues an invoice for the customer to pay at the checkout. A merchant takes a guided tour of all its facilities and talks about the first day of the opening of this new international market. The journalist films a discussion between a market gardener and his client.
In Tourcoing, visit a textile workshop subcontractor of the Pimkie/Diramode group. In this workshop the safety conditions for employees are questionable and the manufacturing times extremely short. The trousers manufactured are sold at 13 francs per unit to wholesalers in the region. The labour inspectorate refuses to comment while the Diramode/Pimkie group insists on the perfect legality of subcontractor workshops. Interview with M YOENG, head of the Yoeng Confection workshop and Bernard DUJARDIN, municipal councillor.
Affected for several decades by the textile crisis, Pimkie, founded in 1971, announced to seek "an external shareholder solution". In January, Philippe Favre, a specialist in the management of companies in difficulty, was appointed Managing Director. The search for a buyer is experienced by employees as a shock. Interview with Emmanuelle MERZEAUD, CGT.
Nearly 400 Pimkie employees gathered in front of the headquarters in La Madeleine. They protested against the job cuts announced on May 14. The stores would not be affected, it would be 52 positions in IT, finance and human resources, and half of the workforce at the depots, or 138 positions in Wasquehal and Neuville-en-Ferrain. Management presents Pimkie as four entities that should be transformed into a single company, able to fight competition. A meeting is planned between unions and management. Interviews with Farida LAMNIH, order picker at Wasquehal, Isabelle LEMOINE, HRD Pimkie International, Fabrice DEKYNDT, secretary of the CE-CFDT Diramod (Pimkie), and Valérie PRINGUEZ, CGT Pimkie delegate.
The Pimkie Group, in full economic growth, recruits in all sectors. Interview with Georges DZUIDZIA, Managing Director of the group, who reviews the openings of new stores and describes the profiles of the positions sought. He says that, despite the textile crisis, the company continues to source from France. As for the positions of store manager, the word must be conjugated to the feminine... The interview is illustrated with images of Pimkie offices and stores.
Pimkie’s gonna go down in social history in her own way. This is the first company to want to implement a plan of 208 job cuts through the conventional break, a device provided for by the new labour law. Mention of the concern of employees, in terms of job loss and low redundancy compensation. Presentation of the simplified procedure and without necessary reason for employers. Interviews with Valérie PRINGUEZ, secretary of the union "CGT" of the Works Council of "Pimkie", Joël GRANGE, lawyer of the firm "Flichy Grangé avocats", and an employee of "Pimkie" with a hidden face.
The French group Smoby has just signed an agreement with MGA, the world’s number 3 toy company, after several months of crisis and the threat for the 1300 employees to lose their jobs. This contract will also allow the French company to enter the American market. Comment on illustration images, alternating with the statement of Jean Christophe BREUIL, CEO of the Smoby group, and the interview of Gilles RIZZI, CGT delegate.
The commercial court has chosen SIMBA as the buyer of Smoby with more than 500 people who will be fired. Pierre Gamonet, FO shop steward, deplores above all the dismissal of the 500 people. Gilles Rizzi, CGT shop steward, notes that their recommendations were not followed. Rodolphe Tarnaud, President of Abcia, another buyer not retained by the court, wishes good luck to the buyer, although he regrets this choice. Michaël Sieber, President of Simba-Dickie group, wants to motivate the remaining employees and reassure customers.
Smoby toys will be made in Mexico for global toy giant Mattel. It is this historic agreement that was signed with Arthur Spear, CEO of Mattel and Jean Pierre Breuil, director of Smoby. Dany Breuil explains that all precautions have been taken to ensure that Smoby remains a winner in the transaction. For Athur Spear, it’s not David versus Goliath, but Goliath with Goliath.
The company Smoby expands, with the acquisition of 2 companies to allow it to consolidate its presence in Europe. Dany Breuil, CEO, details Smoby’s latest two acquisitions and the group’s future prospects.
The toys Monneret in difficulty with 21 million francs deficit was bought by Smoby which holds 51% of the capital of the world leader in table football. According to Dany Breuil, CEO of Smoby, this acquisition will allow Smoby to open up to certain markets where it was not present. The company may retain all employees.
At Smoby, social promotion is not an empty word. 10 out of 12 executives come from internal promotion. Raymond FAVIER who started at 14 years old in the company invented 15 of the 139 machines used by it.
The French plastic toy is manufactured in the Jura and more precisely in Lavans lès Saint Claude. Here the toys are tested by kindergarten children before being put on the market. In this company, the toys are manufactured from A to Z, from the design to the manufacture of the molds then to the packaging and shipping. Dany Breuil (product manager): considers that toys produced in France are more suitable for children than those made abroad.
Four years after his takeover by Simba, Smoby was reborn after having come close to disaster. Today we are expanding storage capacity, relocating production and continuing to invest. Interview with Thomas Le Paul CEO Smoby Toys France
Catherine Lalumière, Secretary of State for Consumer Affairs visited the toy company Moquin-Breuil (Smoby brand) in Lavans lès Saint Claude in the Jura. André Gueugnot, designer, describes his work. The growing company practices social promotion and participation as explained by Jean Pierre Breuil, the director. Catherine Lalumière wants to prove that the manufacture of the toy can very well be done in France.