In the Lyon suburbs, the rescue mission of the last Javel Lacroix factory is launched. Despite profits of around two million euros on the site in recent years, the management of the American giant deemed Cotelle insufficiently profitable.
On the gates, the employees hung a t-shirt flocked with the colors and stamped with the values of Colgate-Palmolive, owner of the Cotelle factory in Rillieux-la-Pape, in the northern suburbs of Lyon.