He is Orpea's new strongman.
Laurent Guillot, who spent twenty years at Saint-Gobain, a materials specialist, has the delicate mission of raising the bar for the group of medicalized retirement homes and clinics, present in 22 countries with some 72,000 employees.
A colossus whose feet turned out to be clay.
The company has indeed been going through an “annus horribilis” since January and the publication of the investigative book “Les Fossoyeurs” by Victor Castanet which denounces the industrialization of care for the elderly and its excesses.
Eight months of revelations of all kinds which have permanently damaged the group's image.
Will Orpea recover?
The future will tell.
Is Laurent Guillot the man for the job, he who has spent his entire career in the industry?
In any case, the construction site is immense.
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