A CHANGE IN GOVERNANCE
FOR MORE RESPONSIVE MANAGEMENT
As part of our work on governance, we have conducted an in-depth review of how it works. The basics remain the same. The President/Managing Director partnership remains a keystone of cooperative governance. This separation of responsibilities is an essential balancing factor.
In order to achieve greater efficiency in monitoring and implementing our action plans, we have opted for greater specialisation among our administrators. A number of committees – Strategic Research, Remuneration, Audit, Ethics – have been set up to help administrators focus more on certain matters.
In addition, regional management has been strengthened through the appointment of three Regional Vice-presidents and the creation of Bassins de Vie. The aim is to keep our policies as close as possible to our farmers’ expectations, within the specific conditions of our four territories in the Agricultural Division.
The two main management bodies are the Board of Directors, elected by representatives of the 12,000 members from the South-West, and the Executive Committee, comprising the Managing Director and the seven main Euralis directors.
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ITS OFFICERS
Guarantors of the cooperative approach
It comprises 24 directors, all of them farmers. Their role is to work with the Executive Committee to set out the key strategies for Euralis and to check that the decisions they take are implemented on the ground.
The Board of Directors – composition :
Christian PÈES
Farms 30 ha of maize for silage in Athos-Aspis (Pyrénées Atlantiques), As the President of Coop de France cereals and Chairman of MOMAGRI he stresses that his “commitments only make sense in relation to Euralis”.
Jean-Paul LATASTE
A cattle farmer at the heart of the Chalosse area (Landes), he also grows sweetcorn, food maize and tobacco. He chairs the sweetcorn section of the AGPM-Arvalis and the Euralis Légumes producers’ consortium. As Group Vice-President, he is responsible for relations with members and for running the Agricultural Division committees.
Pierre PAGÈS
Farming in Viella (Gers), he produces seeds and sweetcorn. As Group Vice-President, he is responsible for the Seed Division and for monitoring the accounts.
Jean-Michel PATACQ
He farms food maize, Tarbais beans and fodder seed on the Ger plateau (Pyrénées Atlantiques). As Group Vice-President, he is also Deputy President of the Agricultural Division, monitoring the success of our agricultural plan.
Lionel Deprez
He is a farmer in Solferino. He grows corn and vegetables, he is also a wine producer. Lionel Deprez is president of the Nord Aquitaine Territory. In this context, he supports the deployment of the Agricultural Division project and ensures territorial animation.
Daniel SALVIAC
He farms wheat, sorghum, barley and rapeseed. He also produces seed in Bourg Saint Bernard in the Haute Garonne. He is President of Occitanie Territory. . In this context, he supports the deployment of the Agricultural Division project and ensures territorial animation.
Christophe CONGUES
He products kiwis and tabacco (Pyrénées Atlantiques). Christophe Congues is president of the Sud Aquitaine Territory. In this context, he supports the deployment of the Agricultural Division project and ensures territorial animation.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Promoting strategies to encourage profitable growth
The Executive Committee comprises the main directors of Euralis.
It establishes the strategic aims and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the cooperative. In close collaboration with the Board of Directors, and under its control, the Executive Committee draws up and manages medium term plans and budgets and monitors their implementation.
Composition of the Executive Committee:
Christian PEES
He is acting Managing Director of Euralis
Frédéric Duverger
Frédéric Duverger achieved his career with the Danone group (1988 - 2012), where he held various marketing, production and executive positions in France, China, South America and Central Europe.
François LELARGE
Over 25 years’ experience of managing information systems in industry and in consultancy (Ernst & Young) as well as in business (DSI EMEA, part of the Georgia Pacific group). He has been director of Euralis Information Systems since May 2011.
Luc LEMAIRE
Graduated in Law from the University of Social Sciences of Toulouse and Paris II and joined the Brandt group in 1992 as a business lawyer and later as director of the legal department. He was called to the Bar in Paris in 2006 and joined Euralis in September 2007 as director of the legal department. He also works closely with the Board of Directors to assist in the optimal roll-out of the new system of governance.
Jean-Yves Marrec
Engineer from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Métiers Jean Yves Marrec has spent part of his career in the Danone Group where he holds various positions in France and internationally. Jean Yves Marrec was since 2014 Deputy Managing Director of Limagrain Coop.
Philippe SAUX
An agronomic engineer, he has worked within Euralis for the majority of his professional life, occupying various posts in the Seed Division.
THE STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEE (COS)
Comprising the 9 members of the Executive Committee and around forty managerial staff from the management teams of the four Divisions and Group Operations, it meets twice a year at key moments in the life of Euralis.
Formed to adapt Euralis’s governance model to its new Division-based structure, the COS enables the principal managers to be involved in strategic planning before feeding the information back to their own teams.
