Translated by
Nicola Mira
Revealed
March 12, 2025
Clergerie
The judicial liquidation process permits Clergerie to proceed buying and selling till April 25, and pertains to SSB, Clergerie’s manufacturing firm working the model’s manufacturing facility in Romans. The manufacturing facility nonetheless employs 31 staff, of whom 29 have been put in short-term unemployment, wrote Le Dauphiné Libéré. Clergerie operates a second firm, JHJ, which takes care of the merchandise’ commercialisation through the retail and wholesale channels, and on-line. JHJ’s 15 workers are in the meanwhile persevering with their exercise.
Potential Clergerie consumers have till March 18 to submit their bid, with the subsequent listening to scheduled for April 2. In keeping with the native press, a dozen expressions of pursuits have been registered.
Le Dauphiné Libéré wrote that Clergerie’s third firm, which owns the trademark, has not but been put into liquidation.
Two years in the past, Clergerie was purchased by US group Titan Footwear following business court docket proceedings in Paris, having filed for receivership in March 2023. Nonetheless, Joe Ouaknine, businessman and proprietor of Titan Footwear, hasn’t been in a position to revive Clergerie.
The model was based in 1981 by Robert Clergerie, and is without doubt one of the final bastions of French footwear manufacturing. It advantages from a long-standing industrial heritage, since Romans-sur-Isère has been a shoe manufacturing hub for the reason that finish of the nineteenth century. Just a few different iconic footwear manufacturers hail from the identical space, like Stéphane Kélian – owned by the Royer group and about to be relaunched – and Charles Jourdan, additionally owned by Royer however at the moment dormant.
