French company: the trial of the Cecchini company

 

Florent Cecchini's mouthful

It is tomorrow that the trial of the company Cecchini will open, based in Floirac, in Gironde.

This company of 42 employees, whose boss alerted the media since 7 October 2013 via Itin & rsquo; Errances, will go before the Commercial Court of Bordeaux, tomorrow, Wednesday 30 October at 4 p.m.. Place where decisions will be made as to the continuation of his entrepreneurial activity, as for the employees he hired, as for the future of an exemplary French company, but in crisis, like so many others.

Minister for Productive Recovery, what is today Arnaud Montebourg, can pride itself on doing what it can, we really do not see where its action is located for French SMEs and SMIs.

Tired of being constantly cornered by the same organizations

After trying, for two years, to get out of the economic crisis that was pursuing his society, Florent Cecchini, 62 years, manager of this building insulation company (created in 1973) took the bull by the horns: “I wholeheartedly wished I could do my best to save the jobs I created, allow my company to continue its activity. She made me live, she supported more than 40 families for dozens of years. I have had enough of hearing the same refrains concerning French companies, that this is the crisis, that more work is needed, that the government help and encourage SMEs, that financial organizations are present…”

Banks also and above all have their share of responsibility in this economic slump, at the national level: they, who were advancing money when all was well, who lent easily when corporate accounts were on the rise suddenly became more than chilly, while it is now that SMEs and SMIs need their help and support. Why be surprised that French companies are going wrong, that they fall one after the other on the forehead? It is not, for the majority, mismanagement…

This is simply a abandonment on the part of administrations, banks, of State… who take as a pretext a difficult economic context (is it very real elsewhere?). So, they remove all their marbles, rush to dying societies to ask them for even more guarantees and defenses, just when, they have more or less! Like scavengers somehow…

These banks are so friendly when you have ideas and money. These banks that follow the movement of ambient gloom. However, they are the ones who should take risks (measures) when we need to be supported… Of course, non! They did not play this role, they never played it, both for individuals and in the business world. They are only in solidarity with the wealthy, jackpot promises.

Call for goodwill, to investors and supporters

This decided man, dynamic, yet of retirement age, will go tomorrow to defend the cause of his business: since June 2008, the company is in receivership and the compulsory liquidation of the company Cecchini, (S.E Entreprise D & rsquo; Isolation Cecchini, 21 avenue des Mondaults – 33270 Floirac) is imminent, unless… (see SO from 25/10/13)

The company expects the worst (total liquidation, and no possibility of continuing the work for two months), like at the best (an authorization for a buyer to take over and take over), and his boss, seething in front of so many injustices, still hope: “I have hope, he tells us, that someone shows up for a takeover of the company, to buy back the assets, which would mean rescuing some of the personnel. We have a full order book, we have good workers and competent staff, our work is of excellent quality, Therefore, the business can still run, even without me.”

The thing is to fall on a judge who would give a chance to a buyer. Florent Cecchini and his lawyer will try to make their voices heard, tomorrow, 16 hours.

Voices from elsewhere: the Chamber of Commerce and Industry is waking up

The Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and Industry, by the voice of Héléne Baloup, business advisor to the management of the SME-SMI Support Cluster (innovation department industry services) has also written to Florent Cecchini, for a proposal for a possible takeover…

Ain't it a little late? Wouldn't it have been wiser to look into this case (and many others probably) anticipating the trial?

Sur TV7 (Bordeaux television from the South West group), Jean Nazaire Talla, deputy director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry – business support-, seems to say that Cecchini establishments did not react early enough and did not alert them, neither informed of his difficulties. “What makes recovery complicated…”

Florent Cecchini, asked about this remark, didn't even know that this service existed! Furthermore, we are entitled to wonder why the people of this CCI service did not come together, why didn't they communicate sooner and faster with each other… Their role would have been to avoid this rise in power of the economic drama, might even have avoided the lawsuit and the trouble in which the Cecchini company has plunged for two years!

In what world do we live if the economic partners of our companies do not do their job properly?

Valérie Doulevant