More than 40 unemployed – Farewell to Rinascente, the Genoa store closes its doors after 60 years | Liguria | Genoa

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Genoa – In the end, after many words, negotiations, illusions and even a short extension, the Rinascente of the Ligurian capital has really closed its doors after 60 years of presence in the commercial center of the city.

The department store should have closed at the end of October, but sales have risen sharply in recent weeks, due to discount having reached 80%, still gives a few days of life to the historic department store which, in the Ligurian capital, occupied 55 people and which closed permanently, leaving 41 people at home and transferring 14 others to different kite and Cagliari.

What Rinascente had to close in Genoa was a thing known: a little less than a year ago, December 15, 2017The general director of the company, Pierluigi Cocchini, had personally visited the Ligurian capital to confirm the information. A decision taken by the management of Thai Crc, which bought the group in 2011: "This is a store that has lost too much money for too long – said the CEO to the institutions and unions, who were trying to negotiate – and we can not afford to keep it open. "

From this day forward, a race against the clock began to look for a solution to avoid the loss of jobs and the disappearance of a major commercial garrison: "It was a difficult and painful journey – a he explained. Silvia Avanzino, secretary of the Fisascat Cisl union – and we would have gladly spared the false illusions of "plans B" and competitors to replace. "In fact, a few weeks ago again, rumors followed one another and proved unfounded: the possibility of buying by foreign investors to a solution already proposed in one of the many "tables" open to institutions to avoid the crisis, until the interest on the part of the group that runs the Harrod & # 39; s stores in London and also the ghost "Rope" of Chinese entrepreneurs
it would take advantage of these 5,000 square meters strategically "spread" over 3 floors in the center to create a sports facility.

all hypothesis remained unconfirmed: the so-called investors would have encountered the high cost of the building. Tonight, former employees and unions, they did a last symbolic garrison
in front of the unlit windows of Rinascente.

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