Industrial Adventures Seminar
In 1968, health authorities required Joseph and Simone Bougro, butchers in Vendée, to rebuild their laboratory, which represented a year’s worth of revenue. Forced to grow, they developed prepared meals, which were so successful that they created Sodebo in 1973 to move into industrial production. Then their three daughters, Marie-Laurence, Patricia, and Bénédicte, now co-presidents, developed the business. Sodebo launched numerous innovations, diversifying into pasta, salads, etc. As variety often creates costly complexity in integrated companies, specialized factories were created. To bring everything together, a lean management specialist helped the executives structure the company, and Margaux Mercier, a member of the third generation of the founding family, was involved in this transformation. Sodebo, a medium-sized company with 3,000 employees manufacturing more than a million products every day, is now a benchmark in lean management.
Registration closes on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.