Coutances (France) (AFP) – The Commercial Court of Coutances returned Friday March 19 consideration of takeover bids on Slaughterhouses AIM (590 employees in total) placed in receivership since January 6, according to prosecutors.
“The review offers on AIM is returned to March 19,” said the prosecutor of Coutances, Renaud Gaudeul AFP, after a hearing of more than three hours.
No buyer came forward during the hearing for the main site, located in the English Channel in Sainte-Cécile (352 employees according to management, according to the CGT 375), according to prosecutors. But it has been referred to a “serious track,” said the prosecutor. This track is discussed for a week by the receiver to employees.
“When we entered the courtroom, we were dead, we come away between life and death in coma, “summed lawyer employees Elise Brand, considering that this reference was” a message of hope. “
” The will of the state (to find a buyer, note) is there “, the local community as well, she said.
She stressed that the company behind the” serious track “required” total anonymity. “
“For us, employee representatives, it is a relief: they escaped the liquidation Serious track, one is forced to believe we will make every effort with management, Cap 50.. (main shareholder and supplier AIM) “to lead it, said Johnny Poisnel, CFDT delegate of St. Cecilia site.
Sainte-Cécile Employees voted Friday night during a general meeting, return to work on Monday to 157 votes for, 60 against and 11 abstentions, according to CFE-CGC. The site is blocked since February 19.
Pascal, he feels “not really” relieved. “Every time it is pushed. It gets tiring. We hear a buyer but for many people, to do what, still no one knows,” added the man employed for 30 years for AIM in Sainte-Cécile.
Kept away from the entrance to the court by a double row of barriers and the presence of CRS, several hundred employees slaughterhouses AIM expressed their willingness to defend their jobs during the hearing.
“We want the job,” they chanted. Some banged on pots or drums for nearly two hours.
“If you’re proud to be AIM, pat your hands”, “we do not crouches” or “millions for the pig, not the boss,” sang employees overall.
The protesters hoped that an offer be made at the last minute, at the hearing, to Sainte-Cécile site.
An offer was announced on February 19 by Declomesnil, a small company of Caen urban area supported by Sofiproteol heavyweight oils and plant proteins (April Group) chaired by the number of the FNSEA, Xavier Beulin.
But this proposed recovery plans to keep 118 of the 350 to 375 jobs had been withdrawn four days later.
For the time, only the slaughter of Frederick, which employs 179 people in Ille-et-Vilaine, the subject of offers, providing a safeguard 107 jobs, the other 71.
AIM also has offices in Dangy, Saint-Lô (Manche) Bernay (Eure) and Nogent-le-Rotrou (Eure-et-Loir), 5 to 24 employees each, which are the subject of any takeover offer.
AIM is one of the last independent slaughterhouses supermarkets in France. Established in 1956 and acquired in 2003 by Cap 50, the company is 64% owned by the cooperative and 34% by the group of cattle feed JDIS. It achieved a turnover of € 246.7 million in 2013.
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