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Accommodation / Food 56 - Food and beverage service activities 56.2 - Event catering, contract catering service activities and other food service activities 56.21 - Event catering activities
184 - 197 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 October 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Contract catering giant Sodexo subisdiary, Lenôtre, which has a catering activity with shops in the Parisian region, will be affcetd by job cuts ranging from 184 to 197 positions. Sodexo also announced a dismissals of 2,183 workers in its corporate catering activities (canteens) and at its headquarters.
The serious drop in activity in the organisation of events (conventions, seminars, weddings, and other events) due to COVID-19 restrictions and the reduced number of visitors to Lenôtre boutiques, are the reasons, according to the management, for this redundancy plan.
Eurofound (2020), Lenôtre, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 102415, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102415.