The Human Adventure of Ventfield: Employees Turn Shareholders for Sustainable Growth and Friendship

2024-01-04 19:28:21

It’s a great human adventure. In Battice, three employees decided to buy their company. The Ventfield company has existed for over 40 years. It specializes in piping, welding and industrial electricity. It initially developed in the steel sector. Today, she has diversified and also works in the food and pharmaceutical industry. The new shareholders who bought the company in which they have worked for years. And, behind the company’s industrial project, the human and social aspect remains important.

We manage with our technical soul

Thomas Brochard is an electromechanic by training. He has been with Westfield for almost ten years. Today he is the manager and main shareholder of his company. “It’s clear that it’s a risk because it’s still a lot of money. It’s a great company and we wanted it to last. We also didn’t want to be bought out by financiers. So we are technicians and we manage this with our technical soul.”

The goal is also to work with friends

Commercial, Raf also chose to become a shareholder: “I worked in large groups. Before, everyone was seen as numbers. There was a short-term policy here. I arrived and immediately found that the company also had a big heart for all the staff. The atmosphere here is enormous. I said to myself, I never want to go back to big companies.” “I’ve known him for a very long time. – recalls Thomas Brochard – and we also worked together as suppliers. The goal is really to work here as friends.” The third employee shareholder is Aubin Renard. This trained industrial designer explains that “For a long time we have considered the company a bit like our own, even if it wasn’t really the case…”

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