The sports brand Decathlon will pay its shareholder, the Mulliez family association (AFM), also owner of the Auchan distributor, where nearly 2,400 jobs are threatened, one billion euros in dividends for the financial year 2024, two indicated on Friday. unions. “There is no money for high-level negotiations, mutual or NAO”, mandatory annual negotiations, but at the same time “family shareholders receive a billion euros in dividends” by 2024, the first union, the CFTC, lamented on its Facebook page .
A source close to management indicated that this amount corresponded to “a distribution of reserves accumulated within the company over time by shareholders.” “It is distributed to all shareholders, including the company’s more than 60,000 employees,” this source continues. The AFM declined to comment.
The CFDT asks parliamentarians to create a commission of inquiry
The announcement comes when another brand in the Mulliez galaxy, the food distributor Auchan, announced a major social plan that threatens a total of 2,389 jobs and includes the closure of a dozen stores and three warehouses. The CFDT services federation had requested that reclassification proposals be made at other companies in the Mulliez galaxy, such as Leroy Merlin or Decathlon. Leroy Merlin has also carried out a collective contractual termination in recent months at its headquarters in Lezennes, on the outskirts of Lille, which has led to the departure of 130 employees, the brand reported on Friday, confirming information from echoes.
The Mulliez “empire” is not “a group per se”, but “a galaxy of companies that have in common the fact that they are controlled by members of the Mulliez family association (AFM),” explains Bertrand Gobin on his site. , author of the book. “The hidden face of the Mulliez empire.” These brands include Kiabi, Flunch, Boulanger and Norauto. The CFDT also took up the pen this week to ask parliamentarians in particular to create a commission of inquiry “in order to really understand what public money is used for” by the various AFM brands, according to a letter consulted.
Source: BFM TV
