Getir in France, it’s over. In receivership since Tuesday May 2, the Turkish fast delivery company announced on Wednesday June 21 to staff representatives that it was going to leave France definitively on July 31, according to our information. It is the Getir group – which owns the Getir, Gorillas and Frichti brands – which is withdrawing from France. The entire French structure of the three brands will therefore be transferred, knowing that only Frichti owns its brand, the names Gorillas and Getir cannot be bought back.
” A bolt from the blue “, according to Johann Tchissambou, secretary of the social and economic committee of the group. ” Everyone is knocked out. ” There is something. The day before, Tuesday, June 20, the elected CFDT (majority union of Getir) had agreed to the terms of the job protection plan. ” It’s a hard blow, an earthquake, when we wanted to sign an agreement to help the company and the employees to give themselves the best chance of securing a future “, laments the trade unionist.
Change of direction
A few days earlier, the Getir group had hinted that it was going to reinvest 160 million euros in its French activities to ensure its continuation over a year. During the weekend, the company had even increased the budget that would be allocated to the social plan from 1.6 million euros to nearly 4 million. This change of direction therefore makes the 1,824 employees of Getir, Frichti and Gorillas, two competitors acquired by the Turkish group in December 2022, fear the worst.
According to certain sources, several companies have already expressed an interest to the agents in taking over the French structure of the group. The company assured that the wages would be paid until mid-September, so that the said legal representatives have time to find a possible buyer.
The growth in the company’s turnover, founded in 2015 and arriving on the French market in 2021, has not been enough in recent years to offset the colossal debt, which amounted to 200 million euros at the end of March 2023. Its main competitor, the German Flink, had also announced that it would leave the French market on Tuesday June 6.