The Italian clothing group Benetton will leave Belgium next year. This is stated in a letter that the management sent to the staff on Tuesday and about what Free message. Benetton points to ‘inadequate results in the Belgian market’ which ‘continue to deteriorate season after season’.
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Benetton closed its last two stores in our country earlier: the one in Brussels in February 2019 and that in Antwerp earlier this year. The group now only sells its clothing in the Galeria Inno stores and the outlet in Messancy (Luxembourg).
However, the partnership with Galeria Inno will end in the course of the first quarter of 2021 and the outlet in Messancy will close in early 2022, the management writes in the letter to the staff. It concerns 29 employees, including employees at the registered office and salesmen. They will be fired. An information meeting is planned for October 6.
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