HAS strength of acronym, the Landes company FaCylities Multi Services (FMS) had not calculated that its brand new textile brand MVP (MyVetPro) echoed the Most Valuable Player (MVP), the title awarded in the basketball league American ball, the NBA. An international reference for an approach that advocates short circuits.
Located in Peyrehorade, in a former supermarket, the brand’s premises employ more than 120 people, nearly 70% of whom have disabilities. A ratio in line with that of the FMS group, created in 2008 by Cyril Gayssot and Fabrice Abadia, which today has 858 employees spread across nine sites and five sectors (IT, logistics, construction/finishing work, temporary work/human resources placement and textiles).
The six-head machine makes the embroiderer make multiple trips back and forth.
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In the midst of a crisis in the clothing sector, this “adapted company” (which must have at least 55% disabled workers among its production workforce to receive state aid, capped at 75%) is banking on textiles to perpetuate its “resistant” approach. Understand “inclusive”, like the 80 workshops of the “Resilience” group, the network to which it has belonged since the pandemic.
In 2020, FMS’s sewing machines were in full swing, keeping pace with orders for fabric masks. The number of jobs has increased twenty-fold. “We created bridges between our different textile activities,” explains branch director Pierre Sorçaburu, also focusing on internal training and versatility.
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“The very humble and very educational” Ana, here on the polyester t-shirt offered by MVP.
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“80% of people here had never sewn industrially,” explains Audrey, in the middle of a jungle of threads and organized sewing machines. The young woman trains her new colleagues, following in the footsteps of her mentor and neighbor, Ana. The team assembles the parts of one of the four polyester t-shirt models sold by MVP.
In addition to this sporty top (raw material from Barcelona), the new brand offers for sale a tote bag and four types of more “casual” t-shirts, in cotton (Moroccan, “Ecocert certified”). The logo (the three letters in blue, white and red) is embroidered on the heart, and in Braille, in the workshop next door. It was designed by the design office, in another room where the space is shared with – and also heated by – a sublimation calender in full operation.
“We bet on sustainable employment”
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The screen prints continue, in this case for special t-shirts for the Olympic Games.
Laundry, screen printing, flocking, manufacturing, recycling (upcycling), etc. The range of activities in the FMS textile sector is rich and rightly so. Among the sovereign products, other work is carried out on behalf of board sports brands, communities and their events, like the pink towels produced for the Paris Olympic Games. “We bet on sustainable employment,” recalls Cyril Gayssot.
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Two operators share the tasks on a sublimation calender.
FMS aims to produce 200,000 t-shirts per year. And his brand must benefit from its launch on the French online shopping platform Cdiscount: “A premium partnership, a historic and natural turning point”, according to Cyril Gayssot, who also hopes to no longer “come up against the difficult market penetration for integrate stores”.
Turnover
For 2024, FMS’s forecast turnover peaks at 30,000,000 euros, compared to 21,875,756 in 2023. 22% of revenue is linked to compensatory aid for the consequences of the disability of its employees in 2023, compared to 28%. in 2020, according to the company.
