Illustration of the Phildar factory in Roubaix, in 1973. -

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  • The Lille Métropole commercial court must examine the four proposals for a global takeover of Phildar, a historic company in Neuville-en-Ferrain, in the North.

  • The sign had been placed in receivership.

A hard time.

The Lille Métropole commercial court must examine, on Tuesday, the various proposals for the takeover of Phildar, a historic company in Neuville-en-Ferrain, in the North.

She had been placed in safeguard procedure on July 1, then in receivership.

Four global offers were submitted by Mondial Tissus (a French company specializing in the marketing of fabrics and haberdashery), Kindy (a sock production company based in the Oise since 1863), a subsidiary of Krief Consulting (a group Business Development Consulting) and the current Managing Director of Phildar, Eric Vandendriessche.

"An offer independent of the AFM"

The latter was appointed in December by the Mulliez Family Association (AFM), owner of Phildar, to prepare a recovery plan.

"This plan was to be presented in March, but the Covid epidemic has accelerated things", we admit at Phildar.

According to a spokesperson for the struggling sign, “Eric Vandendriessche's offer is based on a fund of 12 million independent of the AFM.

»She relies on abandoning ready-to-wear in favor of knitting yarn.

“The idea is to relocate all of the manufacturing to the North of France around an organic knitting yarn project”, he explains.

"The most favorable on the social level"

For its part, the Kindy Project company, which manufactures and sells socks and underwear, proposes to take over “the full operation of Phildar, with in particular the takeover of at least 139 employees out of the 208 currently present in the company. “, She underlines, in a press release.

The offer - presented by Kindy as "the most favorable on the social level" - also plans to keep the affiliated stores, "which represents 50 additional jobs, and the maintenance of all the distribution channels".

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