US EditionFrance: After the Announcement of Brandt's Closure, the Opposition Denounces the Impotence of the State
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REPORTING - The announcement of the liquidation struck the employees like a thunderstorm, putting an end to weeks of fragile hope. Between icy silence in Orléans and anger in Vendôme, everyone now measures the magnitude of the fiasco.
The company has tightened up around Brandt's home appliances company, competed by China and South Korea and placed in liquidation on Thursday 11 December. Near the factory in Orléans, France Télévisions met the mayor of the city, who still hopes a happy outcome.
The announced disappearance of Brandt's household appliances company caused many reactions, including political reactions. On Thursday 11 December, the court declared the judicial liquidation of this flagship of the French industry and 700 employees found themselves unemployed as the end-of-year holidays approached.
Less than 24 hours after Brandt's judicial liquidation, Industry Minister Sébastien Martin said he was ready to talk about the "reconstruction of a project" after the state was mobilised in the case. However, he did not want to "make promises".
Industry minister Sébastien Martin said this Friday that Brandt "does not give up" and believes that it is possible to "imagine a new industrial project" in the aftermath of a court ruling ordering the judicial liquidation of the household appliance group.
The government "do not let go" Brandt, assured Industry Minister Sébastien Martin on Friday morning on TF1, the day after the judicial liquidation of the 100-year-old household appliance group. Some 700 jobs are threatened.The minister announced his "incomprehension" with this decision. "There is an industrial site that is present, there is know-how that is present and therefore the ability to imagine a new industrial project on this site," adde…
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