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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
100 - 723 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 April 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
The management of Auchan Retail France has announced to the different employee representative bodies the sale of 21 stores in France, which could lead to 723 job cuts. Management points out that the group's situation is 'very worrying'. Turnover fell by 1.3% in 2018 to €17 billion and the gross operating income fell by 44%.
The 21 stores for sale are: 1 hypermarket, at Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis) with its 188 employees; 13 supermarkets (Faulquemont, Tours, Esvres, Roanne, Marquette-les-Lille, Arras, Perpignan, Mulhouse, Rouen, Albert, Athis-Mons, Chevilly-la-Rue, Saint-Ouen-L'Aumone) with a total of 265 employees ; 4 chronodrive (Agen, Bayonne, Vannes, Caen) with 89 employees concerned, two 'Halles d'Auchan' (Meaux and Bobigny) with 150 employees, and finally the Auchandirect order preparation centre in Marseille (31 people).
In total, 723 employees are affected by these disposals, representing just under 1% of Auchan France Retail's 73,800 employees. The management is 'actively looking for buyers' for these sites and hopes that some sites will be taken over by the summer. Failing this, management will launch a redundancies plan to eliminate positions at sites that have not found a buyer.
Eurofound (2019), Auchan Retail France, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 97665, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97665.
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