“We will do everything to find a buyer”, promises Minister Roland Lescure

The Minister Delegate for Industry, Roland Lescure, ensures Friday March 31 on France Bleu Nord “share the sadness” And “to understand” the anger of employees at the Buitoni factory in Caudry, in the North, after Nestlé’s decision to close its site, a year after the contaminated frozen pizza affair to the bacterium Escherichia coli. “I am looking for a buyer and we will do everything to find one.“, he declares.

The minister must meet elected officials and trade unionists on Friday in Cambrai. He assures “go into action mode. I will do everything to find a situation for them”, he promises. The group “Nestlé is committed, it has an obligation of results”, assures the minister, who says to have “insisted, and obtained” from the Nestlé group “that he does everything to find a buyer”.

“Buitoni employees are in no way responsible for the health drama of a year ago, there is no reason for them to be the victims.”

Roland Lescure, Minister Delegate for Industry

at France Bleu

Roland Lescure expects the agrifood giant to pay the salaries of Caudry employees “until the end of the year and as long as a buyer has not taken over. Work begins today”, according to the minister who must now “making dozens of phone calls and meeting potential buyers. The employees are motivated, we owe them that, we will find a buyer”he says, convinced that the Caudry plant “Nestlé will survive. I’m confident”he concludes.