The luxury shoe manufacturer Clergerie, which was liquidated in early April, was finally taken over by the Spanish company Petrel 92 SL. The fate of his approximately 50 employees: However, the inside remains uncertain, which leads to great dismay, as a workforce represented on Wednesday to the AFP on Wednesday.
The new owner reported shortly after the liquidation of the traditional French brand, which was pronounced on April 8 by the Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme) Commercial Court. According to an AFP available from April 22, which confirms information from the Dauphiné Libéré, “all employment contracts of employees: inside” are to be taken over.
However, the majority of the workplaces of the employees will ultimately not be preserved: ME Laurent Azoulai, consultant of the Chief Executive Officers (CEO) by Titan Industries, Joe Ouaknine, the previous converter of Clergerie, later announced in a video conference, according to Valérie Treffé-Chavant, employee of the shoe manufacturer and CFE-CGC delegates who took part in the session.
A ‘grotesque situation’ for the employees: inside
The advisor said that the commercial court had made the takeover offer “false reproduction”, since the investor actually only wanted to receive 14 jobs, the delegate told the AFP. A “grotesque situation” for the employees: inside, most of whom are in Romans-sur-Isère, where the last factory was closed. You will become “spirited because we don’t have an employment contract, we do not know whether we are released,” she complained.
ME AZoulai and the commercial court have not yet responded to the AFP’s inquiries.
Clergerie, which exported his shoes to Hollywood in his heyday, paid out Lauren Bacall and Madonna. The group was one of the last manufacturers to produce leather shoes in their factory in France, as did Paraboot, JM Weston or Heschung.
The company, founded in 1981, had been in difficulties for years and was put under creditor protection in 2023 before it was taken over by the Californian company Titan Footwear, which resulted in the relocation of part of the production and the breakdown of jobs.
The three companies of the brand, JHJ, SSB and Tiger Mode, were again liquidated by a shareholder before the court in April after the rejection of the only takeover offer.
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