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- Introduction
- History of my company
- About the company organization
1. Introduction
Good morning everyone, it’s a pleasure to introduce myself today and to share with you my daily work the past two years.
My name is ….
Let me present you Saint Gobain Company. I am working over there for two years.
2. History of my company
The brand name « Saint Gobain » was created in 1665, by Louis XIV to build the “Galerie des Glaces” in Versailles. It’s a very old company with a proportional story and a lightning development. Its capacity for adaptation is the key of its success.
Several steps are important in the company’s history: starting from the creation, the Glass’ Manufacture has been developed in French regions.
Afterwards, the Revolution opens the European market. The middle of the nineteen-century is the golden age of the glasses’ industry.
In nineteen seven, Saint Gobain’s group crept into the stock exchange. For two centuries, the turnover has increased. Saint Gobain repurchases different trades and today it’s an international company.
For a better organization, the Group is divided in several specialties. Today in France, the group is split to four sections: Saint Gobain Glass Solutions, located near Caen, is headquartering, where I work, in Northwest of France. It gathers four others sites: Gennevilliers, Les Essart Le Roy, Lisieux and Rouen. Its activity sector is the production transformation and glass trade and aluminium products.
3. About my company organization
The Carpiquet chef manager, handles 90 employees, divide in seven hubs:
- The direction department Construction site hub
- Supplies and installation hub
- Trade hub
- Administrative and financial hub
- Production hub: workshop of the glass and workshop of the aluminium products.
During two years, I have been responsible of several tasks:
- Reminder clients
- Monitoring of the customers and subsidiaries apparels, with haulage department.
- Phone calls and face-to-face reception; I look solutions to improve the information’s flow.
- Project with the hub supplies and installation hub to solve the problems of documents’ transmission between the different sites.
- Project with the aluminium’s workshop to find a new supplier.
4. About my company business analysis
If the Saint Gobain Group prospers on the global scale, the local market is rather lifeless. The customers catchment area spreads on six French departments: Manche, Calvados, Orne, Sarthe, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine.
The kind of customer is the professionals, like Ikea, Leroy Merlin, Castorama, the public organizations and more and more the individuals. About the pricing system, it’s set up by the head office of La Défense in Paris; there is a little adaptation to local market.
5. SWOT Matrix
Strength / Weakness / Threat and Opportunity
If the company has an expert’s picture on the market, the prices are more expensive. If it’s hard to survive on the local market, the new rules about the thermal insulation starting from January twenty-fourteen are a real opportunity for the company.
6. About my project
My project is the application of two strategic decisions.
In front of the economic crises, first of all the Saint Gobain Group decided to adapt its strategy: focus on the professionals, the aim is to add value to human, technical and equipment means of the company.
So, I created a technical memorandum with 3 parts:
- Presentation of the company: history, turnover, production cycle, machines, etc.
- One part on the safety
- And a last part on our achievements, Les Rives de l’Orne by example.
This document allowed improving the expert’s picture of the company in the replay of call for birds.
The second decision of the managers is the adoption of the new strategy to gain a new customer base: the individuals. In order to this, I went out to (j’ai participé à) organization of the Show of So-Home and the layout of the welcoming room. And for me the work was hard but very interesting and rewarding.
