The company had requested its investment in receivership in 2022.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
In difficulty for several months, the San Marina shoe brand was placed in compulsory liquidation Monday, February 20 by the Commercial Court of Marseille. “No serious recovery project could be supported and current managers could not bring their reserve supply draft due to the lack of investor,” said the court, which announced the immediate cessation of activity facing. ” To a situation that it is no longer possible to straighten and [which] worsens day by day “.
On September 22, the company, which employs 680 employees in 163 stores in France, had been placed in receivership. The candidates for the takeover had until February 7 to present their file, and they are very little to have come forward. On February 6, Laurent Portella and Stéphane Collaert, shareholders of the company, announced to employee representatives that they were giving up to present an offer. 2>
French ready-to-wear in difficulty
San Marina, formerly owned by Vivarte, had entrusted in the fall undergoing the counterpouil of the judgment of the Court of Cassation which forced, in June, the so -called non -essential traders who had to keep closed door during confinement from spring 2020 to pay their rents. The company had already announced a job safeguard plan in the spring of 2022.
In August, it was another French ready-to-wear brand, Camaïeu, who had justified his request for receivership by evoking “the consequences” of the judgment of the Court of Cassation . The 511 Camaïeu stores have definitively closed their doors on the 1 October 2022, three days after pronouncement of the brand’s compulsory liquidation. Since then, several channels have announced that it has been placed in receivership. Among them, Kookai is, also formerly owned by Vivarte.