This is one of the most important social plans of recent months.
The ax of the judicial liquidation fell this Friday on the home delivery company of food products Place du Marché (ex-Toupargel) and its sister companies.
The Lyon commercial court had given itself 48 hours on Wednesday to render its deliberation concerning this company based in Civrieux-d'Azergues (Rhône).
He pronounced the judicial liquidation, which leads to the loss of 1,900 jobs.
This decision was awaited by the employees, in the absence of a candidate for the takeover of the company which had been in receivership since October 2022.
Quality products, an army of telemarketers and loyal customers, that was Toupargel's recipe until 2010. A flagship of Lyon's industry, the company has had up to a million customers during its working hours. glory.
The distance selling catalog, offering 1,200 product references, figured prominently in French homes.
But the story went wrong at the end of the 2010s and Toupargel, whose headquarters are in Civrieux-d'Azergues in the Rhône, will be liquidated.
“The employees are very angry and disappointed.
In the space of two months, our bosses
(the Agihold company)
made a company that had existed since 1947 disappear, ”reacted Françoise Charentus, FO union representative and telesaleswoman in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire).