SECRETS TO SUCCESS

CSS’s startegy, initiated in 2007 by André Froissard, revolves around several objectives:

• Allowing each department of the organisation to have the required skills for its operation at all times while providing the working conditions necessary for their optimal performance;

• Ensuring the performance of CSS by better generational transfer of skills and the development of a successful succession preparation plan.

• Developing corporate culture internally as well as with the environment;

• Promoting a local HR culture to take care of employees in a more personalised way, particularly in assisting for transformation and the acquisition of new skills;

• Being an attractive company, capable of retaining its quality human resources and highly aware of respect for social justice and equity;

• Promoting the existence of a social dialogue label with the social partners.

The Compagnie Sucrière Sénégalaise, as a key player in the local economy, is a breath of fresh air for Richard Toll and represents the main funder of the municipality’s budget. The tens of thousands of farmers and herders who permanently benefit from its actions can attest to that.

The CSS cultivates sugar cane, but it actively participates in rice production through the support it provides to thousands of rice farmers by fully covering their irrigation water bill on more than 5,000 hectares sown in double season. The company’s establishment conditions anticipated the development of the surrounding villages and quickly the problem of access to water arose. For 50 years CSS has supplied drinking water to the surrounding villages, this having also developed boreholes and basins for livestock.

These actions have been reinforced thanks to the arrival of the Marie Louise Mimran Foundation, particularly in the areas of education and health.

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