They were employees, they bought their company to become bosses

In this industrial site which gives off a pleasant smell of aromatic plants, the former strikers had to review their entire work organization: on the one hand, train the former handlers in management professions in order to continue tea production; on the other, create an original brand, entitled 1336, and find new supply chains for it. To change the direction from the previous management, which they considered disconnected from their realities, the group’s employees chose to organize themselves into a self-managed cooperative. This way of doing business, much more horizontal than traditional business, is still rare in the French landscape.