Bordeaux businessman Michel Ohayon will place the 26 Galeries Lafayette stores he controls in France in receivership “to protect them from any attack”, he announced in an interview with the Sud Ouest newspaper published on Friday evening. . “Their situation is healthy”, assured the entrepreneur whose business empire is in turmoil, with the liquidation of the Camaieu brand in September and the placement in receivership of the Go Sport group in January.
Coming out of silence for the first time since the start of the crisis, which earned him numerous criticisms, Michel Ohayon took up his own defense in the columns of the newspaper. “Since the failure (of his recovery of Camaieu in 2018), I have heard everything about me but no, I am not a jackal of the commercial courts! “, declares the businessman, claiming to have injected “2.5 times more” money into the company than promised, and “tried everything to save jobs”, more than 2,000 employees remained on the floor finally.
