While the Maury Imprimeur group's turnover has fallen over the first five months of 2020 due to the health crisis, Jean-Paul Maury, the CEO of the ?130 million group, points to a remarkable initiative that he hopes will become widespread and could reverse the trend.
"Our plants have been producing for the last three months and we have served our customers without a single day of downtime. Of course, some presses have been stopped, mainly due to the non-distribution of flyers to supermarkets, which lasted from 14 April to 25 May", tells us the printer based in Loiret. "Our overall turnover in the first five months of 2020 is in recession by 20% compared to May 2019, which is not insignificant. The recovery will take a long time to return to the activity of 2019..."
And one of the first positive post-confinement signs came from a retail group, Système U, which decided to stop producing prospectuses abroad in order to support French manufacturers (read U stores are bringing back the printing of their leaflets to France ). Fourteen French printing works received new orders from this customer, including Rockson Nouvelle, located in Rognac in the Bouches-du-Rhône region of France we told you and Maury about.
"May this example be followed by other principals..."
"A big client who chooses to come back to the market, it's rare to see that. This magnificent example deserves to be reported loud and clear, applauds Jean-Paul Maury. This sign defends employment so that France can get out of this situation. It is an industrial civism. The captains of industry have to wake up and relaunch économie?!"
"May this example be followed by other clients... Our shopping is our emplois?! he adds. Let's avoid having unemployed people and give our country the chance to modernize to find industrial specialties and knowledge often wiped out by foreign competition that destroys French factories... and therefore jobs..."
And the printer is particularly interested in book publishers. He hopes that the help "consistent" given to them by the State will encourage them to put national printers to work.
He goes on to say: "Thank you to all our customers who buy French and participate in the much-needed national effort to help our country, by also reducing transport pollution, which the climate has so much of besoin?!"
"We thank the many highly motivated members of our staff who helped serve our clients during this traumatic and at-risk period. We wish our customers back their energy and sales and thank them for their confidence."
