Eric Gandon Email & Phone Number

Guémené Penfao , France

J'organise des séminaires de jeûne thérapeutique. J'ai expérimenté le jeûne ainsi que le changement de mon alimentation et j'ai observé les effets bénéfiques sur ma santé. Aujourd'hui j'accompagne les personnes qui souhaitent retrouver ou garder la santé par le jeûne et l'alimentation !

Manage EuroFlorist France. Network of 3000 florists’ generating revenue of €14m in France. The subsidiary is own by a Swedish group establish in 14 countries in Europe. I report in English to the group CEO based in Sweden. Manage the French organisation restore the team motivation and florists’ confidence.

Freelance consultant under Michel Kahn licence. The consulting cabinet is specialised in retail network development via franchise and partnership.Environment analysis and company diagnostic to draw the best strategy and action plan for our clients business. Prepare business plan and present them to potential investors. I coach on the weekly basis business owners to help them to achieve their business plan. I work with brand companies such as Lesieur, Chez Papa, Terres de fenêtre, Môa, Monbana, Père Magloire…Coordinate the creation of best practice tools for each network In order to develop sustainable network in franchise and partnership.

As managing director I am defining and implementing the company strategy. I am reporting both to the CEO who is a non-operational partner and to the shareholder. I am leading the board members as well as all the company employees, a total of 220 people. Strategy :Following a strategy diagnostic I define a strategy split in two phases. The first one is a cost cutting phase: reduction of manpower cost, shops size, and improvement of the supply chain. The second one is a value creation phase: improvement of the shop concept, improvement of the products range, training of the employees, moves the brand position to fit better the consumer needs. Management : I drive working groups composed of line managers, shop managers, sales people in order to identified improvement in line with the company strategy. Strengthen company team spirit, creativity and the profitability. Know how: best practices implementation in the network for consumer services, merchandising, management, communication, driving the employees to work with higher standards. Supply chain:I lead the audit of the entire supply chain. Then write the supply chain specification. Seek the most adapted software available on the market. I select a few (Timeless, Generix, SAP, Navision). I put them into competition and gain a drop by 60% of their prices. Then I chose Generix as back office software and Symag for the front office. Results:Improve profitability by 500K€.

MissionsLead a network of 200 shops, 400 people making 40M€. Board member I drive a team of 8 regional managers and improve shops profitability. As operation Director I am responsible for the implementation of the strategy define by the group board based in the UK. I am reporting to both the managing Director based in France and the CEO based in the UK. I am managing in one hand the 140 MINIT shops; with 250 employees and 4 regional managers and in another hand the 60 Montre Service shops; with 150 employees and 4 regional managers.

MissionsI am promoted Country Manager of Nicolas UK en 1993 following 5 years of outstanding results as shops manager in France, Belgium and England. My mission is to turn around the business that is making big lost since 1989. In 1999, I am managing 23 shops, 60 people, 11 000K€ revenue with net profit of 600K€.

Education record

Ecole de Naturopathie

Mba International, Company Management

Activities and Societies: Retails applications: The school has a retail research centre (CERIDICE), The research centre is headed.

Leadership, Management, Recruitment.

Activities and Societies: Modules, options, course content I participate to work seminars over those 2 years. The best practices.

Education record