Once placed in receivership, the company will indeed leave France, which its managers consider administratively “too restrictive”. Express delivery platform Getir for home shopping announced on Wednesday that it would be leaving the French market and looking for a buyer for “all or part of the group in France,” in a press release sent to AFP.
“The difficult legal environment and the rules set by local administrations made it very difficult for the company to succeed,” the French subsidiary of the Turkish giant, which settled in the country in 2021, justified. The same argument was made at the beginning of June by its competitor Flink, who announced that they were throwing in the towel in France for the same reasons.
“Fast Trade”, which involves the delivery of everyday groceries in a few minutes by a courier on a bicycle or electric scooter, has been the catalyst for strong criticism from local residents and elected officials who have condemned the disorder, the arrival of “warehouse cities” or even the development of a “lazy economy”.
In March, the government dealt them the final blow by ruling that “dark shops” — downtown areas where groceries are stored for delivery — are warehouses, not businesses, paving the way for mayoralties to regulate the activity. . These premises may be forced to close if the local urban development plan (PIU) prohibits this type of activity at their address.
1800 employees in limbo
After Gethir was named receiver in late March, along with his other two companies (Gorillas and Frichti), Gethir announced in May that he was considering eliminating 900 jobs across the country in three regions. On Wednesday, the group said it “would not fund a plan to continue its operations in France,” leaving about 1,800 permanent and fixed-term employees in limbo (according to the CFDT, the Getir group refuses to release figures).
“The court administrators responsible for the liquidation of the Group will enable third party buyers to propose plans to sell all or part of the Group in France,” he said.
Despite a combined turnover of around 120 million euros for the three brands (Getir, Gorillas and Frichti) in 2022 and a notable increase in recent years, at the end of March the group’s debt for the three companies amounted to 200 million euros. 2023, according to an internal company memo advised by AFP.
The announcement of the departure from France is “cruel and disrespectful to these employees who had such hope for the future of the company,” CFDT union spokesman Johan Chisambu lamented in a press release addressed to AFP. The trade unionist demanded that wages be guaranteed until September.
Source: Le Parisien
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