Roquette reviews

French 'management' has run RAI into the ground. Unrealistic targets are set without any plan on how to reach them. The plant hasn't been maintained so production suffers. Logistics is a sorry joke. Arrogance and information hoarding is rewarded. Backstabbing is rampant.

Everything else. The French run the show and they don’t understand they’re not a big player in the U.S. They think they can force the American market to bend to their will because they’re Roquette and their big in Europe but they don’t have that kind of clout in the states. They don’t understand the market they’re playing in and don’t seem to care to learn it. They talk a good game about fixing the problems at the plant, but that’s all it is. Talk with no follow through. They pour money into ridiculous global initiatives and pretty new building designs that actually sacrifice functionality, productivity, and efficiency. The Keokuk plant is so old and run down it’s not reliable for production of good product and should just be shut down entirely. Also, there’s a considerable amount of big fish in a little pond syndrome at play. Many local, “high level” managers have an inflated view of their own and and their teams abilities and worth measured against other, larger companies in the same industries. Elsewhere, with their talents, skills, and expertise, they’d be mere cogs in the machine and more appropriately so.