Paris (AFP)

The coronavirus crisis has precipitated several French companies, some of which were already in difficulty, into bankruptcies or restructuring with serious consequences for employment.

- Automobile -

- Renault, in financial difficulty, plans to cut about 15,000 jobs worldwide, including 4,600 in France, as part of a savings plan of more than 2 billion euros over three years.

Four French sites should be affected: Caudan (Morbihan), Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), Maubeuge (North) and Choisy-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne) which will be closed by 2022.

The project also includes stopping automobile production in Flins (Yvelines) after 2024.

- The truck manufacturer Renault Trucks has announced the elimination of 463 jobs among its white-collar workers.

- Aeronautics -

- According to Les Echos, "the Air France reconstruction plan (...) should include 8,000 to 10,000 layoffs, or 15% to 20% of the workforce". The figure which would cover redundancies on a voluntary basis has not been confirmed by management.

- Furniture -

The Alinéa brand (2,000 employees), based in Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône) has been in receivership since May 13.

- Media -

- The parent company of BFMTV and RMC, NextRadioTV (1,600 employees), wants to eliminate 330 to 380 permanent employees and up to 200 freelance and intermittent workers. The subsidiary of the Altice group announced in mid-May a "post-Covid transformation and reconquest plan" which plans to reduce the airfoil in sport and entertainment.

- Penalized by the cessation of major sports competitions, the sports news channel RMC Sport News (Altice group) stopped on June 2.

- Reworld Media, owner of Grazia since 2019, wants to cut 31 positions and stop the weekly publication of the magazine.

- Shoes and clothing -

- The ready-to-wear brand Celio - 4,000 employees worldwide - asked on June 22 to be placed under the safeguard procedure for lack of agreement with its banks. The closure of its 1,585 stores worldwide resulted in a loss of turnover of almost 100 million euros between March and May.

- The shoe and clothing brand La Halle (Vivarte, 5,391 employees in France) has been in receivership since June 2. The Vivarte group received 25 partial takeover offers which would theoretically save up to 607 out of 830 stores.

- The shoe brand of the Spartoo André group (600 employees) went into receivership in early April after having to close its stores and lost nearly 4 million euros in the last two weeks of March.

- Naf Naf (1,170 employees), placed in receivership on May 15, will be bought by the industrial group SY which is committed to retaining 75% of jobs in France.

- Camaïeu: the ready-to-wear company (3,900 employees, 634 stores) went into receivership on May 26 with an observation period of six months. The government says it is looking for a buyer.

- The Jura manufacturer of glasses L'Amy (120 employees) was placed on June 2 in receivership.

- Hobbies -

- The management of TUI France, the country's leading tourist operator, announced on June 17 that it would cut up to 583 positions, or two-thirds of its workforce.

- The digital media group Webedia, a subsidiary of the Fimalac group led by Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, which has around fifty sites and applications dedicated to entertainment and leisure, has prepared a voluntary departure plan for 80 to 90 people.

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