It has always been a family-run organization and, when a different family took over in the early 1990s, the company would have gone under if the employees hadn't agreed to a 10-per-cent across-the-board wage cut, explains Rudersdorfer. "We decided that it would be wiser for us to go slow. ###>«Nous avons décidé qu'il serait préférable, pour nous, d'avancer lentement, et ce à la demande même des employés.»