By SudOuest.fr with AFP
The Alsatian company, star of supermarkets, was placed on January 3 in cessation of payments, after the difficulties accumulated since the start of the health crisis
The Alsatian company Caddie, in receivership, will receive an exceptional public loan “of several hundred thousand euros” in order in particular to “cover the salaries” of the 140 employees during the observation period, we learned. Tuesday with Bercy and union source.
During a situation update with the trade unions and the Grand Est Region, “we announced exceptional support from the State” of “several hundred thousand euros” in the form of a loan paid “ in the very next few days, ”we said to the Ministry of the Economy, without specifying the amount of the loan.
According to the CFTC secretary of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE) of Caddy, Luc Strohmenger, it is a loan of “400,000 euros” granted “half” by the State and by the Region. “It’s a big relief, it makes it possible to pay January wages and continue production,” he said. According to him, the Caddy unions were received by an adviser from the Élysée during Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Strasbourg last Wednesday.
“The idea is that the company can pay the minimum expenses”: salaries, electricity bills, gas …, we said to the ministry, welcoming the “spirit of responsibility” of the employees in a “very tense situation”.
Who will take over Caddy?
Based in Dettwiller (Bas-Rhin), Caddy, whose name has become the symbol of supermarket trolleys, was placed on January 5 in receivership by the commercial chamber of the Saverne court, which left until February 22 to the company to find a buyer.
“There are great difficulties today in paying the bills, given the conditions of the bankruptcy filing, the cash flow was extremely low”, we added to Bercy, who works “in conjunction with the agency regional development” to find a buyer.
According to Strohmenger, no firm offer has yet been filed but the site is the subject of many visits. “There is strong support from the state in this file”, we insisted with Bercy, recalling that Caddy had benefited in March 2021 from a “subsidized loan from the State […] of 4 million euros”.