Gifi decided to “interrupt” on Wednesday, July 23, the current social plan in 166 positions of its historical headquarters of Villeneuve-Sur-Lot (Lot-Et-Ggaronne), “by mutual agreement” with the CFDT, the majority union, announced the Bazars brand, which was waiting for a new manager in September.
“This joint decision will allow Christophe Mistou, when he assumed the position of president of the Board of Administration on September 1, analyze the situation and build an objective organization faithful to his vision,” he wrote in a Gifi press release, which specifies that the other social plan in 11 stores dedicated to closing (116 positions) will go to an end.
The group announced these plans in early April to recover after two years of losses, the first in its history began in 1981.
Gifi’s problems had begun with a change in the computer system failed in 2023, to which the competition of other stores (action, maxibazar) or Internet platforms was added. After an understanding of his debt last year, Gifi snatched a financial support plan in January, with a new government and the background of the brand’s founder, Philippe Ginestet.
“The adjustments are essential”
Several leaders have followed from the company, which achieved a turnover of 1.2 billion euros in 2024, and the current managing director of Mr. Bricolage Christophe Mistou will take the presidency of the Management Board in September.
In his press release, Gifi explains that “the objective organization, as arrested last April by the old government, did not allow the strategic reversion to be operated for the company.”
He adds that “if it turns out that the adjustments are essential” after the arrival of Christophe Mistou, “the negotiations will open, in terms of the new established social dialogue.”
“There will not be a social plan, it is good at least temporarily for 186 jobs,” said the figure presented by Gifi in Spring, he told Pierre Laffore, representative of the CFDT, the Mayistra Union. “I don’t know who we owe exactly, the CFDT and management assume this co -response response.”
Initially, the brand wanted to reduce its workforce by 5% by a total of 6,000 people in France, eliminating 186 posts of 730 at the headquarters and 116 in stores dedicated to closing. The date in negotiations on the terms of the work safeguard plan at the headquarters was established for next Friday, after being postponed several times.
Source: BFM TV
