Article : La Nouvelle République - Top des Entreprises de l'Indre - 10 December 2025
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Founded in 1998 in Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre, Berry Services won the Top Companies 2025 innovation award. Specializing in bringing ready-to-wear clothing into compliance, the company notably manages the second-hand offering of high-end brands.
In recent years, a growing number of French and European ready-to-wear brands have added a "second-hand" section to their websites, giving a second life to pre-owned items. When they receive their packages, those tempted by these designer clothes at bargain prices are certainly far from imagining that they are shipped from a 10,000 m² warehouse on the outskirts of Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre. Founded in 1998, Berry Services, whose "DNA is the reconditioning of ready-to-wear," launched its second-hand business during the Covid pandemic, and it now represents about a third of its activity.
Every day, the company receives hundreds of packages addressed to brands by customers who have decided to sell their pre-owned items. Each item is then meticulously inspected for stains, holes, or potential counterfeits. Depending on their flaws, the garments are then either handled by tailors or sent directly to the laundry where stain removers eliminate virtually any stain. The items are then ironed before being sent to a photo studio that produces nearly 10,000 photos per month for the advertisements that will be posted on the brands' websites. The garments are then stored before being shipped when they find a new customer.
"One million items in storage"
In the warehouses, clothes hang from hangers that cover the ceilings, and Jean-Claude Beneteau, the company's founder, estimates that approximately "one million items" are currently stored there. In addition to this secondhand business, Berry Services has built its reputation on ready-to-wear logistics as well as on the reconditioning and bringing batches into compliance. "The brand samples 2 or 3% of each stock, and if they find defects, they send us all the items so we can inspect them and bring them into compliance. Sometimes it's also due to a transport issue, like a container that got damp," explains Jean-Claude Beneteau.
Thanks to the talents of his team of forty-five employees, the company director emphasizes that Berry Services manages to salvage approximately 90% of the clothing and accessories it receives. "We work with garments made on the other side of the world. This secondhand work allows us, in a way, to relocate this type of production," explains Jean-Claude Beneteau, who started his business in 500 m² premises in 1998. These premises will soon be forty times larger, as a project is underway to double the building's current size, bringing it to 20,000 m² by 2027. Nearly two million garments will then be able to be stored there.
Nicolas Grellier
