InVivo is rolling out its plan for integrating the Soufflet teams, following the completion of its acquisition of the family-owned agri-food group in December 2021. This merger makes the French cooperative group a global agricultural player with sales of €10 billion and a workforce of more than 13,000, including 10,000 in France. Sébastien Graff, the Group's Human Resources Director and project leader, tells Planet Labor about the major stages and challenges of this integration program.
- On 01 January 2022, InVivo began deploying its plan to integrate the Soufflet teams. What are the major deadlines?
Initially we asked all our teams to focus on three major deadlines. The first was Day 01, because we needed to have all the elements in hand to be ready when the new entity started up, in order to ensure the continuity of day-to-day operations, such as contact details, a list of disputes, the ability to maintain HR payroll operations, investment management, and so on. The second deadline, which has just occurred, is Day 30 and it corresponds to the start of a process of reflection on the organisation and on common operating methods.
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