Pierre Fabre is reshaping its industrial footprint in the eastern part of the Loiret region and is offering the 46 employees of its Château-Renard site the opportunity to join the Gien site, the group's main pharmaceutical production site.

Faced with structural under-activity at its Château-Renard site (Loiret), the Pierre Fabre Group presented a project to transfer activity and personnel to the site's staff representatives on July 21 morning.

A sample packaging activity in tubes that is no longer a priority

The Château-Renard site exclusively packages care tubes for the Eau Thermale Avène brand, including 50 % in the form of sample tubes. The production of these samples having been divided by three since 2017, the site's capacity is now only used up to 45%. The sample tubes have been voluntarily replaced by bags, which have the advantage of being better adapted to the needs of consumers and e-commerce for increasingly lighter and more compact formats.

A job offer in Gien for the 46 employees of the site

All employees will be offered mobility to the nearby pharmaceutical site in Gien, 40 kilometers away. Internal mobility positions will also be available at other Group sites for employees wishing to relocate to the southwest. Finally, assistance for external mobility is also planned to enable employees with a personal career plan to carry it out via specific measures and the support of a specialized firm. The HR teams and site managers are mobilized to inform, listen to and support employees, who will all be met individually by July 30.

Strengthening the Gien site

The Gien site, which produces medicines and oral hygiene products, is the group's main pharmaceutical production site. The arrival of employees from Château-Renard will bring new skills. Their integration will be facilitated by the proximity of the businesses, the implementation of appropriate training and specific mobility assistance.

A project with a positive impact on the environment

This transfer would also have the advantage of simplifying logistics flows. Bulk creams are currently transported from Avène to the Loiret, then the tubes are brought down to Muret (Haute-Garonne) where the group's logistics platform for dermo-cosmetic products is located. Under the project, the packaging of the tubes would be transferred mainly to the Avène site (Hérault). The project would save more than 1,000 tons of freight per year and thus reduce the Pierre Fabre Group's carbon footprint.

A desire to find a new future for the buildings on the Château-Renard site

All opportunities to convert the buildings will be studied in conjunction with the economic and institutional players in the area. The buildings are adapted to accommodate different types of industrial or logistics activities. Once the activities have been transferred, the site will continue to be maintained to allow for optimal conversion of the buildings.

Meeting in the "Grand Amphi" of the University of Orléans on June 29, at the heart of the competitiveness cluster, Cosmetic Valley's Annual General Meeting opened with the re-election of Marc-Antoine Jamet, General Secretary of the LVMH Group, as Chairman, unanimously elected for a further three-year term.

For his third term, the President of Cosmetic Valley will be responsible for promoting national coordination of the French perfumery and cosmetics industry. Today, Cosmetic Valley federates 800 companies, including most of France's major groups and 80 % of SMEs and VSEs, representing all French territories, both in mainland France and overseas, and all the industry's trades: ingredients, processes, packaging, testing, finished products, etc.

With sales of 45 billion euros and 246,000 jobs, Cosmetic Valley claims to embody the values of the "French brand" in perfumery and cosmetics: innovation, performance, product safety, respect for the environment, authenticity of ingredients. The driving force behind a sector that provides France with its second-largest export balance and is a world leader in an increasingly competitive market, Cosmetic Valley emphasizes its ability to create a genuine "industrial fabric" linking major groups and SMEs, private and public players, laboratories, universities and training establishments. The cluster has a strong European and international dimension, and participates in various EU programs. This ecosystem is the world's leading network for cosmetology research.

"I still get the same pleasure out of embodying our unity with public authorities, in the regions, in front of central administrations, and on the international stage, said Marc-Antoine Jamet. The confidence that my peers continue to place in me is an inexhaustible source of pride. We have, it seems to me, collectively grown in strength and legitimacy, moved our issues forward together, and diversified our actions. Of course, we still have many challenges ahead of us. In particular, we must face up to the four major transitions - ecological, technological, economic and digital - which the health crisis has not created, but rather exacerbated. This year has therefore been marked by our resilience and the resumption of our factories and workshops. It must continue with our determined involvement in the revival of growth and jobs in our country. Because we want to ensure our future performance through concrete advances, we are adapting today not only our tools - I'm thinking of the 400 million euros of collaborative projects underway - but also our governance, with directors who reflect even more the diversity and wealth of our members. I expect them to play an active role, and to commit to being our ambassadors, in France and around the world. I am delighted that, in a period of decisive transition, they have decided to renew their confidence in me for a further term at the head of Cosmetic Valley.