The Lille commercial court validated the takeover of 71 stores out of 176 of the northern brand Chaussexpo by Chaussea this Wednesday. More than half of employees are threatened with redundancy.
The company had declared itself insolvent the previous week. Desmazières, created in 1815 and which opened its first Chaus sexpo store in 1987 in the North, has 750 employees and 177 stores. It had already undergone two social plans in recent years, in 2017 (closure of 29 stores and departure of more than 80 employees) and in 2018, following legal receivership (35 stores closed, 124 job cuts).