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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Food, Beverages And Tobacco 46.3 - Wholesale of food, beverages and tobacco
218 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 October 2013
Employment effect (start)
4 November 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Food products distributor Europeenne Food will partially be taken over by Ponoma group, resulting in 218 job cuts. Jobs likely will be lost in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Fresnes.
This follows a decision by Creteil commercial court on October 30. Europeenne Food had announced insolvency on 20 September and entered into administration 5 days later.
Ponoma is to take over 106 staff from a total workforce of 324. 54 workers are to be kept at the site in Fresnes (Val-de-Marne) and Europeenne Food’s headquarter at Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. The remaining 52 workers will be relocated to Ponoma’s sites in the country.
Pomona is headquartered in Antony (Hauts-de-Seine), employing 8,800 workers in 140 sites in France.
Sources
30 October 2013: Le Monde
30 October 2013: L'Entreprise
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Europeenne Food, Merger/Acquisition in France, factsheet number 76108, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76108.
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