After several years of judicial recovery, in an even more complicated context for the company since covid and the successive crises, the Silc company, as it exists today on the Eastern Rempart in Angoulême , has permanently closed its doors. She honored her payments under the recovery plan until her situation became untenable. Cessation of payments on September 15. The decision was postponed to allow the administrator to review “the signs of interest that potential buyers, outside the department, showed in the companyspecifies Jean-Louis Sutre. It didn’t come to fruition.”. Except for liquidation. Even if the door remains ajar.
Covid and crises
Silc, which had up to eighty employees in the 1990s, was placed in receivership in September 2015. “For twenty years I have been carrying around a liability that I discovered [après la reprise de l’entreprise, NDLR] », laments Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière today. Originally an association, Silc was taken over in 1988 by Jean-François Vieira, former boss of bosses in Charente, associated with the Pitcho brothers. Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière, minority shareholder who became chairman of the management board, then had to manage the liabilities. It was not until 2010 that Jean-Michel Roques, the former director, dismissed and accused of embezzlement, who had once set up a competing structure, was ordered by the court of appeal to reimburse Silc. The machine could never be refloated.
“For six or seven years, I honored the repayments”, underlines the CEO. And covid fell on him. “Two years without any activity, he recalls, but I didn’t fire anyone. We used every possibility to put the team in formation.” He hoped for a recovery after covid. “It was less important than expected. It did not work “recognizes the business manager.
“We stop the costs”
In September he was unable to pay. “We stop the costs”he says today, wanting to maintain hope for the company, its nearly four million turnover and its twenty-five employees. “The company is profitable if it is relieved of this burden. The core team is around fifteen people”, indicates Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière. The liquidation will be effective on January 10. This is the deadline until which the judicial administrator’s door remains open for a takeover proposal. Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière wants to believe it. “I put a lot of energy into it. If I can keep this great team going…”
2024-01-05 23:44:07
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