The court decided "on an eight-day dismissal, until next Tuesday", indicated the judicial administrator Me Claude-Maxime Weil, after a hearing at the commercial chamber of the Saverne court.
"Everyone agrees to try to find a solution, but we need to have concrete funding marks in eight days," he explained.
At the end of the initial deadline set in January at the time of the placement in receivership of the Alsatian company, two letters of intent and an "offer with suspensive conditions", emanating from the current boss Stéphane Dedieu, had been formulated.
The two letters of intent are no longer relevant, a project for a cooperative and participatory society (Scop) not having received sufficient support from the 139 employees.
Only remains the offer of Stéphane Dedieu, joint with the current Italian distributor of Caddy and a German investor, who plans to keep 111 jobs.
“I have not yet completed the financing round,” Mr. Dedieu explained to AFP before the hearing, indicating that he was “in discussions with other Alsatian investors”.
"We will strive to be serious about all the court's requests (for a final and financed offer, editor's note) in order to be able to respond positively, I hope, next week", he added after the hearing. , believing that an opposite outcome "would be tragic for everyone".
During a consultation of employees organized by the CSE, a large majority voted in favor of the current boss's offer project, while 23 votes were in favor of a judicial liquidation.
For Thierry Carl, CFTC deputy secretary of the CSE and employee representative in the context of the receivership procedure, Stéphane Dedieu's offer would be "a blessing in disguise".
"There are still 28 (employees) who will leave, once again, there will be breakage", regretted the one who has worked at Caddy for 24 years and has therefore already experienced the two previous legal adjustments of the 'business.
To continue to operate the company's only factory, in Dettwiller in the Bas-Rhin, and to pay salaries, Caddy benefited from an exceptional public loan of 400,000 euros, half financed by the State and half by the Grand Est region.
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