• Nothing is going well for the Caddie company, whose head office is located in Dettwiller, in Alsace.

  • The company, in insolvency, was placed in receivership on Tuesday.

  • The famous supermarket cart manufacturer now has a month and a half to find a buyer and save its 140 jobs.

The ax has fallen.

In suspension of payments and in great difficulty, the Caddy company was placed in receivership on Tuesday.

The famous manufacturer of supermarket trolleys now has a month and a half to find a buyer and save its 140 jobs in Alsace.

"The court puts the company in receivership [...] and it returns the case to February 22, hoping to have by this date a solution with a buyer for the company Caddie", indicated the president of the company Stéphane Dedieu, to the outcome of the closed hearing held before the commercial chamber of the judicial court of Saverne (Bas-Rhin).

"We're pressed for time because the company needs cash to keep going, so it's important that the process be fast," added the one, who joined Caddy in the early 1990s as a salesperson, took over the business. company in 2014 after a previous receivership.

Priority to "maintaining employment"

"Currently I have no lead, but the procedure is just starting", recognized Stéphane Dedieu, calling for an "industrial" buyer for this niche market and praising "a beautiful brand, beautiful products and employees. involved ”.

For his part, reassured that the wages for December will finally be paid, Luc Strohmenger, CFTC secretary of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE), wants priority to be given to “maintaining employment” on the now only production site in Dettwiller (Bas-Rhin).

“The objective is to find a buyer as quickly as possible because the state of the company is really catastrophic.

The objective is to maintain employment as long as possible ”, insisted the lawyer of the CSE, Me Hervé Bertrand, evoking seven million euros of debts only with the suppliers.

"For me it is obvious that a beautiful house like Caddy will inevitably attract an industrialist", had declared Mr. Dedieu on RMC before the hearing in court.

The company, based in Dettwiller (Bas-Rhin), Alsace, declared itself insolvent on Monday due to an accumulation of difficulties which have exhausted its cash flow.

The company, called “Les Ateliers Réunis Caddie”, which invented the metal trolley for supermarkets in 1928, has already undergone two receiverships in 2012 and 2014. It has been 70% owned since 2018 by the Polish Damix, who cut fifty jobs in 2020.

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