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“ <strong>Colas</strong>? The story of a lifetime, the story of my life ”<br />
GUY SARRASIN<br />
PROFIT CENTER MANAGER<br />
COLAS SUD-OUEST<br />
FRANCE<br />
Loyalty is much more than<br />
just a word for Guy Sarrasin:<br />
“After forty years of loyal<br />
service at <strong>Colas</strong>, it’s time to<br />
retire,” he says. Hired back<br />
in 1970 as a foreman in the<br />
Nièvre region of France,<br />
he later became project<br />
engineer in Bourges, and<br />
then profit center manager<br />
in La Brionne, in the Creuse<br />
region. As luck would have it,<br />
his retirement coincides<br />
with the completion in the region<br />
of a project he has spent<br />
twenty years working on: the<br />
Atlantic Europe Center Route<br />
project (RCEA). “I’ll have done<br />
80 km of the RCEA,” he states<br />
proudly. “The final section will<br />
be delivered soon and then I’m<br />
off.” As far as Guy is concerned,<br />
the road – crossing the region<br />
from East to West – is partly<br />
the story of his life. “I’ve trained<br />
lots of youngsters on this<br />
fantastic project. Some have<br />
gone on to make brilliant<br />
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careers for themselves.<br />
The RCEA has been like<br />
a <strong>Colas</strong> school!” This keen<br />
hunter and traveler will leave<br />
the region at the end<br />
of the year to move closer<br />
to his daughter and grandchildren.<br />
He looks back at his time spent<br />
on various projects with a touch<br />
of nostalgia, but, above all,<br />
with a sense of pride in a mission<br />
accomplished: “I’d promised<br />
myself that I’d finish the RCEA<br />
before retiring. Job done!<br />
Today, I start a new chapter.” <br />
ROUTES No. 25 – September 2010
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