Hermione People & Brands (HPB) wants to reassure. While the judicial adjustments follow one another among the stores well known to the French (Go Sport, Pimkie, etc.), the parent company of the big twenty stores owned by the Bordeaux businessman Michel Ohayon assures him: “It there is no plan to close a store” Galeries Lafayette. More specifically: “There is no plan to close the store in the Galeries Lafayette affiliated stores under Hermione Retail, neither recorded nor under consideration”, assured this spokesperson the day after a call. to the walkout by one of the group’s unions. The representatives of the 750 employees of Hermione Retail, the company bringing together the Galeries Lafayette properties of Michel Ohayon, had exercised a right of economic alert in December in order to obtain information on the situation of HPB.
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“A month after the launch of this procedure, the management refuses to communicate the documents” requested by an independent expert, denounced the staff representatives on Thursday, saying they are “determined and mobilized to obtain transparency on the real situation of the company. “. To mark the occasion, the CFDT, the first union within the Hermione Retail group, called on its employees to disengage on Tuesday February 14. Calling not to “confuse everything” between the situation of the different HPB brands, the spokesman for the parent company said that “concerns may be raised by the repetition of articles on the same subjects”, but that from there to make it “a question of lack of clarity or transparency, there is a step that has been taken, which should not be”.
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19 stores owned by the group
“Overall, Hermione Retail’s commercial performance is good,” he said, and the group is “not far from having regained its pre-2019 performance”. The requested documents are “in the process of being transmitted”, he said. Hermione Retail owns around twenty Galeries Lafayette stores, located in Agen, Amiens, Angoulême, Bayonne, Beauvais, Belfort, Besançon, Caen, Cannes, Chalon-sur-Saône, Chambéry, Dax, La Roche-sur-Yon, La Rochelle , Libourne, Lorient, Montauban, Niort, Rouen, Saintes, Tarbes and Toulon, acquired in 2018 by Michel Ohayon.
In total in France, 19 Galeries Lafayette are directly owned by the group of the same name, and 38 are operated in affiliation. Several brands owned by Michel Ohayon have found themselves in turmoil in recent weeks: Camaieu, whose liquidation in September left more than 2,000 employees on the floor, the sporting goods distributor Go Sport, placed in receivership, or even Gap France, where employees have also launched a right to alert.
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