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New job cuts in the textile industry of the conglomerate Mulliez, also owner of Auchan, Decathlon or Leroy-Merlin.

After Pimkie, at the beginning of the year, it is the turn of the loan group Happychic (Jules, Brice, Bizzbee) to announce the removal of 466 posts and the closure of some 90 stores by 2020-2021. The group's management detailed this restructuring plan yesterday in the extraordinary works council at the company's head office in Roubaix (North).

The Brice warehouse in Le Mans (Sarthe) should close by April 2019 The first starts could take place in January or February 2019. In detail, there would be ten Bizzbee stores and 78 Jules and Brice stores throughout France, or about 330 employees. The other jobs eliminated would be in the logistics and at the headquarters.

According to a statement of the management, it is about "first lines of reflection concerning its project of transformation to return to the competitiveness.

"I am shocked to see so many cuts," said Nadia Ferrante, FO delegate, denouncing the "wrong strategic choices" of the management for several years that led to this situation, she said. "They failed to move the box properly. The company has been struggling since 2011. It's always the little ones who suffer the consequences of these mistakes, "she said.

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