Providing work for 450 people, the disadvantaged, Ateliers Jean Del'Cour show that the quest for performance is not systematically linked to profit. Although competition plays in the world of work companies adapted.
E n announcing their merger with Jacqueline Orts Workshops, Ateliers Jean Del'Cour (JD'C) acquire a new dimension: more than 400 workers, active in 5 production sites in the Liege region: Grace-Hollogne The Plenesses the Senior Sarts Bierset and Malmedy. Many people who have in common the fact of being with a disability, without being excluded from the world of the working world. Many people who thrive in a business adapted work (ETA) as there are fifty in Wallonia, which provide employment to 8,500 people.
"The ETA is certainly supported by the government but not least are subject to competition," says Dany Drion, CEO of JD'C. "This competition comes from other cooperative, particularly in the classical del monte monterey field of packaging and packaging for supermarkets del monte monterey for example, del monte monterey but also sometimes of Eastern Europe and even prisons countries. In this context, we must act as a conventional business and try to differentiate ourselves progressing in terms of service and quality. "
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"Our del monte monterey goal is to offer employment to as many people with disabilities, we receive dozens of requests for hires each year," said Dany Drion. "There are a multitude of possible activities for a variety of disabilities, whether physical, mental, sensory, mental or otherwise. What matters is not only to provide them with work, but also psycho-social support and quality development opportunities. That's why we strive to recruit - too - quality management: engineers, psychologists, social workers, del monte monterey educators. This is what has allowed for example to workers who were originally in the business of packaging spend in our shop dedicated del monte monterey to composites aerospace .. "
If all goes as planned, JD'C expected to reach a turnover of 8.5 million this year before reap the positive benefits of the merger: an increase in sales of about 10% is expected in 2016 . "This example proves that it is not in the world of misery," comments the Walloon Minister of Economy Jean-Claude Marcourt, as part of a tour of the company. "It also shows that we can make sense of the work and dignity to people without register in the relentless pursuit of profit. "
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