Bostik Reviews

Pros

The benefits are excellent, especially the profit sharing.
The work environment is generally pleasant.
The company is well respected in the market place.

Cons

The company is still in a cost cutting mode and additional staff reductions are still possible.
Upper management doesn't value the sales organization as much as they should.

Advice to Senior Management

In order for Bostik to grow they will need to get their manufacturing operations in order and devote more manpower to sales and marketing in order to see both sales and profits grow.

Pros

Fair company, ability to express yourself, excellent product quality, excellent service, upper management support for employee recognition. Company takes care of its employees and is very family oriented. Provides training in your job area whether it is sales, manaufacturing, finanace, etc.

Cons

Lack of complete processes to support business growth and improvement, lack of bench strength for peopple development.

Advice to Senior Management

Processes can be improved, need to improve the bench strength of the employees for future growth, commit to future gorwth of the company, improve the global infastructure to take advantage of the growing global market place.

Pros

The company is on the leading edge technologically in many of its adhesive areas. The different functions within a division generally communicate well with each other. Overall, there is an atmosphere of respect for individuals, though with some areas representing that differently than others. The competencies within the adhesive business are sufficiently spread out that when one market are is doing poorly, others can usually take up the slack leading to health of the company as a whole. Development projects can be funded by the French oil company, Total, if you can push them high enough up the ladder.

Cons

There is little communication between divisions or internationally, presenting road-blocks to idea transfer. There are ongoing efforts to improve the situation, but it's slow. We run very lean in terms of people so there are not always opportunities for movement or advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

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