Thierry Blandinières, Managing Director, is leaving the Maïsadour

Haut-Mauco, June 27th 2013
Thierry Blandinières, Managing Director, is leaving the Maïsadour
Cooperative Group.
After 10 years working for the Maïsadour Cooperative Group, Thierry Blandinières has been appointed
Managing Director at In Vivo. He will leave the Group at the end of 2013.
Thierry Blandinières has today been appointed to the post of Managing Director at In Vivo.
Having arrived in the South-West of France in 2002, he will step down as Managing Director of the
Maïsadour Cooperative Group and as President of Delpeyrat at the end of 2013.
This appointment is true recognition of his work at Maïsadour, which has seen its turnover and activities
triple over the last 10 years. This growth was achieved notably thanks to the major restructuring of its basic
activities (hybrid maize and sunflower seeds, procurement of grains, animal nutrition, contractual animal
and plant-based production), as well as to the development and internationalisation of its ‘Terroir’ fine
food industries (MVVH, Fermiers du Sud-Ouest).
As we await the recruitment of a new Managing Director, and despite the heavy involvement of the
elected members of the Board of Directors around President Michel Prugue, the Group will be run by an
Executive Committee and a Management Committee, both of which are made up of experienced
senior managers. This managing team has successfully contributed to Maïsadour's development in recent
years.
The Group will navigate this transition period untroubled, thanks to the strong structuring of its industries, its
values and its local roots.
Our strategy of allying with neighbouring cooperatives will continue, in order to create added value by
consolidating downstream and shrewdly internationalising our activities, for the benefit of our members,
employees and territory.
Press contact:
Bernard Perna, Group HR and Communications Director +33 (0)6 07 68 35 02 [email protected]
Christelle Chabasse, Communications Manager +33 (0)6 85 90 12 68 [email protected]
Or [email protected]
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About In Vivo
In Vivo, an agricultural cooperative union, is a major economic player in 4 key areas: seeds and plantbased agricultural supplies, animal nutrition and health, international grain trading, green distribution
(Gamm vert). In Vivo is a leading French agricultural cooperative Group, that reported a turnover of 5.7
billion euros for the 2011-2012 financial year and employs more than 6,700 people across the world.
The In Vivo union brings together 240 member cooperatives.
A benchmark operator in each of its business areas, In Vivo has two main missions: to help agriculture
reach its full potential and to create value for its member cooperatives and customers, the farming world
and society as a whole.
For more information: www.invivo-group.com
About the Maïsadour Cooperative Group
 Turnover: 1.5 billion euros (of which 50% was achieved in the agricultural division and
50% in the food processing division)
 8,000 farmers
 Staff: 5,000 employees of which 6% work abroad
The Maïsadour Cooperative Group has close to 160 industrial sites (silos, slaughterhouses, feed
factories, seed factories, etc.) predominantly in the South-West of France, our historical birthplace.
Our Group also has an international scope with establishments and subsidiaries abroad (Ukraine,
Spain, Germany, Morocco, etc.).
More than 100 sales outlets (Maïsadour Garden Centres, Gamm vert stores, Delpeyrat and
Comtesse du Barry shops, etc.) complement our establishments in France and abroad.
The Maïsadour Cooperative Group is organised into segments with:
 An upstream division for activities pertaining to the production of agricultural raw materials:
seeds, agricultural supplies, grains, vegetable production, animal nutrition, animal
production,
 A downstream division for processing activities that take place close to the consumer:
poultry with Fermiers du Sud-Ouest, Fine Food products produced in the South-West with
Delpeyrat for foie gras and Bayonne ham, as well as the network of garden centres and
sales outlets that specialise in mechanised agriculture.
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