Go Sport: Brand owner ‘regretfully’ abandons sequel plan

The Ohayon group continues its difficult period. The owner of HPB, a company in the Ohayon galaxy, announced that it had withdrawn from presenting a plan to continue Go Sports on Monday, ahead of a new hearing in the Grenoble commercial court.

“We regret to inform the Commercial Court that we are withdrawing from our draft plan for a sequel,” Director of Communications Frank Hertzhuber said in a statement. The commercial court of Grenoble still has to consider on Tuesday the future of Go Sport, which has been in receivership since January. About twenty buyers applied to acquire the sporting goods distributor at the height of the riots.

H.P.B. already unsuccessfully tried to cancel the decision of the arbitration court on bankruptcy proceedings, issued on 19 January. His appeal was rejected on Thursday by Grenoble’s Court of Appeal, according to a court source.

open investigation

More bad news for the Ohayon group. Following the liquidation of the Camaïeu brand (2,600 employees) in September last year, the Group’s holding company Financière immobilière bordelaise (FIB) declared itself insolvent, the Gap brand (350 employees) was taken over, and 25 Galeries Lafayette stores were placed under guardianship. production.

The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation into “organized crime fraud, conventional money laundering, bankruptcy and misuse of public property” following an investigation launched in Grenoble following “several criminal disclosures” reported by Go auditors. Sport.