Jennyfer in receivership: "We really didn't expect it to be so brutal and violent," reacts the CGT Commerces union.

The Jennyfer brand, which emerged from receivership in 2024, was finally placed into liquidation on Wednesday.

"We really didn't expect it to be so brutal and violent," reacted Elodie Ferrier, federal secretary of the CGT Commerces union, on franceinfo on Wednesday, April 30, as the Jennyfer brand, which emerged from a period of receivership in 2024, was finally placed in compulsory liquidation .

Elodie Ferrier claims that "management hid everything until the last minute" and that "at no time did they inform the staff representatives that they had put the company into liquidation and that they had requested compulsory liquidation." The federal secretary of the CGT Commerces union assures that she found out "on Tuesday evening, that's where it hurts . " "The whole company is being liquidated ," she continues, "it will no longer exist. No more head office, no more warehouse, no more stores, which represents around 1,000 employees."

The union representative points out that there was a first job protection plan (PSE) in 2021, a second in 2023, then a judicial recovery measure in 2024, "so it's a logical next step that has happened." Regarding the possibility of having takeover offers, Elodie Ferrier does not believe it. : "Already, at the time of the receivership there were no offers, so we don't see how there could be any by May 13 when the situation is even more deteriorating."

For the union representative, the situation at Jennyfer is no different from what is happening elsewhere in the clothing sector, for brands that have experienced social plans. "The employers reinvest the company's profits in the pockets of shareholders and do not reinvest in the development of the stores (stocks, works etc.), so they create the deficit themselves" , denounces Elodie Ferrier. A situation that the union representative deplores in particular because, according to her, these companies "receive state aid which they then use to lay off people and finance - with state aid - the layoffs" .

She denounces the fact that, according to her, "the government is doing nothing" to stop this clothing crisis and the job cuts in the sector. However, Elodie Ferrier repeats , "solutions exist, this suggests that the government is working hand in hand with the employers."