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Nearly a year after the bankruptcy of Smooth1, the former giant poultry is at a turning point in its history. He presents this Tuesday afternoon a first draft of its continuation plan before the Commercial Court of Quimper. A hearing at which court administrators should request an extension of six months of the observation period and, especially, to announce the arrival of a new strong man in the capital, alongside the Sweet family.

According to several sources, this financial-like white knight could be Didier Calmels, specialist business turnaround, through his personal holding Development & Partnership. The businessman, who was at the origin of the brand's recovery Tanner and rebirth in Alpine Renault competition redeem for tens of millions of euros of debt Barclays2 bank first Sweet creditor who ultimately chose to leave the group volailler. He would take two thirds of the capital, the Sweet family and BNP Paribas retaining a third party. The entrance to the capital of Saudi al-Munajem, historical customer Soft, is still part of the assumptions paydayloan. The group's debt would be reduced to € 340 million (a year ago) to 120 million.

With this new round, the group, which is planning an exit from bankruptcy in the fall, now sees the future with serenity found. Refocused on exports and developed pole (Arch Hotel) Soft – again profitable – should make 560 million euros in sales in 2013. It has a stable cash around fifteen million. At the head of 2,200 people, the Group relies on a new team, a symbol of generational change. Exit the founder, Charles. The group is now led by his son Jean-Charles Doux3, president, and Arnaud Marion, CEO, the man in the shadows. It was he who was the architect of recovery alongside administrators and the new social dialogue. The task was daunting. In assessing the cost center, the band broke up a thousand people. Sweet, who will present by the summer a plan to ten years, now hopes its former grandeur.

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The patriarch of one of the most important families of Italian fashion, Ottavio Missoni, died today at his home in Sumirago in the Lombardy countryside. Born February 7, 1921 in Yugoslavia, this former Olympic athlete – he attended the London Games of 1948 – had co-founded the Missoni home with his wife Rosita, heir to a family of textile industrialists. In the 1950s, the couple away the use of machines to make shawls and created a line of knitwear motley, the famous multicolored zigzags, winning the favor of the press. They set up their factory Sumirago in the late 1960s and soon the small artisan label knits international fame. Missoni is a classic ready-to-wear Italian, develops accessories, fragrances, beachwear, sign line design decorates hotels and multiplies co-brandings (Converse, the American brand Target brand Bugaboo). Their daughter Angela is currently artistic director of fashion. In January, the family had been under the spotlight when the plane carrying the eldest son of Ottavio, Vittorio (General Manager marketing of the house) and his wife had gone off Venezuela1. Ottavio Missoni was 92 years old, he published his memoirs in 2011 in Italian, Paolo Scandaletti under the title A Life on the yarn (Ed. Rizzoli).

 

For several months, the job market also tends frame. The whole of 2013, the services of the Apec predict a market decline of about 5%, with a range of recruitment between 162,000 and 178,000 people. However, the unemployment rate for white collar should remain below 5%.

Behind these figures altogether favorable, there are winners and losers, and markets at different speeds. "Today, all employers dream of having them around frames with three to ten years of experience in the trade," said Fabien Stut flatly, deputy general manager of recruitment firm Hays. For other populations frameworks, however, the situation is much darker. "The most affected will certainly graduates this year, but people still wanted engineers, and still older, but this is not a novelty," says Frédéric Benay, Senior Executive Director at Michael Page. A situation related to driving "short-termist" employers whose business visibility is almost zero now and who do not take risks.

Experts in high demand profiles

Another observation: as the market is primarily supported by the replacement (turnover, retirement …) and not by the creation of jobs, recruitment are almost exclusively on expert profiles, regardless of trades and industries. Result, candidates are missing and it is difficult to convince them to leave their current position.

"The paradox is that in a range of sectors and occupations, employers can not find anyone," says Fabien Stut. Examples in auditing and accounting, the unemployment rate is 2%. In finance, there is a shortage of candidates on the functions of consolidation. Even in construction, on some very specific lines of business, recruitment for engineers are hard work, economists or engineers building structures.

As for the "engines" of executive recruitment, such as computer, the boot does not fall, even if the trend is a little less dynamic. "Everything comes to outsourcing of functions has the wind in its sails," said Frédéric Benay at Michael Page. As proof, Sopra, specializing in technology consulting, announced this year more than 2012 recruitments: 2,500 in total, including 1,600 in France. "Sopra Group recruits both graduates bac + 5 and more experienced profiles without stands a level of experience rather than another," says one.

Director of Human Resources at MAAF Assurances, Véronique Jolly does not fits in this scheme – beginners, advanced, seniors. "We have a recruitment plan that allows us to talk to all areas of the company and all the employee profiles. So we appeal to both young graduates, experienced managers, but also for seniors, because we are part of the technical issues, "she says. The mutual group, which has 7,300 employees in 2013 shows a recruitment plan external CDI 300 people, with hundreds of new posts, plus a level of internal mobility of 700 employees. The insurance specialist deploys a parallel plan hires 350 CSD and sixty contracts.

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Biologists are angry. "On Monday, we take the afternoon strikes throughout, added to the gel transmissions leaf disease Banks to primary health insurance," says François Blanchecotte, President of the Union of Biologists (SDB). In Marseille, Patrick Lepreux, Bioprat union, began a hunger strike in protest against the reform. Biologists believe that the government, calling for a new lower rates of 80 million euros in 2013 goes too far. In 2012 already, the turnover of the industry fell 1.5% to $ 3.5 billion while the economy grew by 2.8% in volume.

New regulatory requirements

"For six years, the profession has dropped 700 million," says François Blanchecotte, exasperated that the government does not regain the agreement seemed to be reached with health insurance and provided a rate increase at least equal to the inflation from 2013 to 2015. "The adjustment variable, it is the employees," he warned, referring 8,000 jobs at risk over nearly 45,000 in the sector.

In addition there are new regulatory requirements. Biologists are concerned about the most demanding quality standards imposed on their tests (blood tests, urine …), from 2016, in the form of accreditation. "Reform creates factories analyzes," decried by some biologists. In any case it involves heavy investment and accelerates the concentration of laboratories.

Certification, which will improve the performance of laboratory tests, "will induce a surcharge of 3% of sales in the beginning, then 1.5% thereafter," said Philippe Charrier, Group Managing Director of Biology Labco. It will force small laboratories that perform are less than 100 patients per day and recorded a turnover of less than one million euros per year to regroup or sell.

Costs and higher unit cost in France

Accreditation and price reductions imposed on the analyzes involved measures implemented by successive governments to reduce healthcare costs. In the field of medical biology, flexibility is not negligible, if one compares the costs of the Hexagon in neighboring countries. According to a study released Tuesday Eurostaf will be at the conference of the magazine "Info Biologist" expenditures per capita medical tests in France are twice as high in Spain and 35% higher than in Germany.

The unit cost of actions is also higher in France, one of the few Western countries where laboratory tests are done in the city rather than in hospital. Examinations will cost 2-10 times more expensive than in Germany or Belgium. "The trouble is that in Germany, the results are issued after a very long time, often four days," puts an industry expert.

Reform legislation of medical biology is under consideration in the Senate. Unions fear it Stavros Dimas future conditions for the exercise of the profession. Yet this law favors laboratories pushing the deadline for accreditation 2020. And, at the request of biologists, it slows the takeover of financial investors now required for a laboratory to be majority owned by a biologist.

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Angela Merkel does not lace with Cyprus, which has been negotiating since June financial rescue. Chancellor was visiting the island Friday, not as head of government but as a member of the European People's Party (EPP) came to support openly, with twenty leaders of the Old Continent, the right candidate Nicos Anastasiades, given favorite in the presidential election of 17 February.

"Cyprus should go ahead with its obligations and economic reforms," ​​said the German chancellor. Merkel added that using an expected time for the Eurogroup on 21 January, will "not be decided immediately." To bail out its banks very exposed to the Greek crisis, and help refinance its debt, aid is estimated at 17 billion euros over four years, more than the annual GDP of a small island in the euro area No teletrack payday loans.  

The outgoing president, Demetris Christofias the communist who does not represent, launched reforms to reduce public spending. But it is hostile to privatization, desired by the troika (EU, European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund). EPP leaders gathered Friday in Limassol expect more of his successor.

Angela Merkel has also stirred the carrot promising to Cyprus' solidarity of other European countries. " Time is running out for Nicosia barely pay its employees. Wednesday evening, the rating agency Moody's lowered the rating by three notches Cyprus to Caa3, pushing further the island in the speculative category. The risk of default increases, Moody's warned.

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Considered the possibility Friday is now confirmed. The direction of Virgin Megastore said Tuesday morning that it will file the results tomorrow before the Commercial Court of Paris. The announcement was made before several elected council, met for the second time to examine "the draft declaration of insolvency" of the company in financial difficulty.

Union representatives said they refused to give an opinion, but said that management believes they had a negative opinion, which enables it to override. "The Chair (Virgin, Christine Mondollot) will go to court business," said Jean-Luc know Breyne elected CGT EC AFP. An administrator will then be appointed, which will focus on the fate of some 1,000 employees of the brand, which has 26 stores.  

Trade unions believe that Virgin has not the means to finance a social plan and call for its majority shareholder (74%), the investment fund Butler Capital Partners. Laurent Paqueret, a representative of the fund, was present at EC Tuesday morning to answer employees' questions. But, according to Guy Olharan (CGT), they "encountered an end of inadmissibility" on his part. "Butler refuses to take responsibility for financing the social aspect of everything that will unfortunately follow," he lamented on behalf of the elected EC.

"All possibilities discussed"

In the entourage of funds, it is argued that "Virgin of cash and assets, it may assign to finance socially." The brand has already recovered 20 million since 2008 by selling leases several stores, including those at Bordeaux Merignac and the Louvre. As it is expected to get its flagship store on the Champs-Élysées.

"The shareholders have invested $ 15 million in four years," said Butler also close, pointing out that such shareholder has reorganized the logistics and also opened stores (Saint Lazare in Paris, Rouen, Toulouse, for example).

The fund, which has successfully recovered Groupe Flo and France Mushrooms, defends himself by arguing that the distributor of cultural products was already in trouble in 2008, when he put his hand on it. He hoped to make a professional electronic games market has since returned, suffering from competition from the Internet. Revenue has not declined steadily from 371 million euros in 2008 to 313 million in 2011. Similarly, operating income remained negative since 2006.  

With the beginning of the process of filing for bankruptcy, the company will have a breath of fresh air because its debts are frozen. "All options will be considered," a close advance of funds. The most likely scenario, however, seems outright end of the sign, with a further assignment of leases of stores.

According to our information, patterns of partial recovery by competitors or partnerships with other distributors or brands have indeed been studied without success. The arrival of Virgin stores in Système U has been considered, but the project was not successful. Virgin was able, however, to implement a few corners in shops on BP motorway service areas last summer, but it was not enough to get the boat afloat.  

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Pierre Moscovici he prepares the ground already new listings difficult in the French car? The Minister of Economy and Finance has estimated Sunday evening, PSA Peugeot Citroën will "probably go further" measures taken in recent months to ensure its survival. Unspecified. Guest on the show "All political" France Inter-World-AFP, Pierre Moscovici simply stated that it was the leaders of the automotive group "to clarify the situation." And remember that PSA is a private company. But the statements of the Minister, elected Montbéliard in the Doubs, where PSA has its largest plant in France are not neutral.  

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Faced with the slowdown of its natural market – Europe – where new car sales fell by 9% in 2012, PSA has already taken several steps to recover: closure of its Aulnay site and removing 8,000 jobs cash advance loan. Meanwhile, he began a rapprochement with the U.S. General Motors, stabilized its financial subsidiary and changed its governance. This year, PSA must be addressed to improve the competitiveness of its French factories like Renault, hoping to quickly sign an agreement for this purpose with its unions.

2013 will be very difficult for both companies while the French market could again decline (-5%) this year.

 

The killing of Newtown has plunged America into mourning. And aroused the anxiety of American parents, already traumatized by several tragedies in schools. Perhaps more quickly than elsewhere in the United States, any event, as tragic as it is a bearer of good business: from the terrible shooting, sales of backpacks bulletproof are booming.

Tact with incomplete, a dozen companies unsheathe anxyogènes slogans, which usually operate in the United States: "The question is: your life or that of your child worth it $ 229?" Says the head of company Black Dragon Tactical, which sells anti-armor killing to integrate into the bags. It's just "a security in case your child is in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says. Same tactic for Amendment II, a company that sells turnkey backpacks bulletproof to "protect defenseless children of a crazed gunman."

Disney Princesses and Avengers

Those of this company based in Salt Lake City are well suited to appeal to youth: Disney princesses for girls, superheroes The Avengers for boys and a model SwissGear to preserve the style of adolescents easy payday loans. As for the bullet-proof plate in carbon nanotubes, it is inserted discreetly, and weighs just 500 grams. However, it is capable, in its basic version, stop 45 caliber and 9 mm. For .44 Magnum, it will opt for an overlay, charged about $ 100 plus $ 300 (average) to pay for the bag. Plus delivery.

Amendment II ensures that from Newtown, its sales are three times higher. Remains to be seen whether Americans freshly shocked by the killing, will consider it necessary to protect their children in the long term. If Barack Obama said his administration would submit "in the coming weeks" in Congress reform proposals on the wearing of arms, Americans still fear. And rob stores of weapons, including semi-automatic weapons of war, as they are not yet prohibited. The powerful gun lobby in the United States rubs hands.

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Going through a difficult release. This will force him to continue his transfer to forced march. According to our information, the newspaper directed by Nicolas Demorand should finish the year slightly in the red, despite a positive operating income of one million euros against 2.5 million in 2010 and 2011.

One of its major shareholders, Bruno Ledoux, also owns the building that houses the newspaper near the Place de la Republique in Paris, will pay € 1.5 million well before December 31, which will allow as to continue deleveraging.

In January, capital structure Liberation will evolve. The main shareholder should hold Édouard de Rothschild equally with Bruno Ledoux 52% of the holding company Refoundation, alongside the heirs of the Italian Carlo Caracciolo.

Decline in paid circulation

Since last summer, Liberation suffers from a drop of 20% of its newsstand sales, which account for 30-40% of its paid circulation after the heyday of the presidential campaign – in May, the title peaked 65,000 of newsstand sales. In October, they dropped to 41,500 for a paid circulation in France of 115,200 copies, according to OJD. But accumulated since January, sales are expected to complete the balance. The erosion of the diffusion requires us to find new sources of revenue. Thursday, Nicolas and Philippe Nicolas Demorand, Co-Chairs of the Board, explained their strategy to 230 employees worried us fast cash.

The cap is placed on the organization of events and conferences. The newspaper, which generates 60 million turnover in 23 program in 2013, against four in 2011 and six in 2012. "Our goal is to triple our turnover in this business," says Philippe Nicolas.

Accelerate the migration to digital

The goal is to accelerate the migration of readers to digital. The website, which totaled 3.1 million unique visitors in October, according Médiamétrie, will open in June a new formula that will begin the transition from "freemium" (free and paid content which coexist) the "paywall" (subscription becomes required from a certain amount of items consulted free access). At the same time, release to launch an electronic edition that will include enhanced ten more pages compared to the paper version.

Developing subscriptions, Nicolas hope Demorand install a more stable business model. Objective: To reach at least 46,000 subscribers in 2013, against 40,000 (including 11,000 digital) today.

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Employees are willing to make concessions to avoid a social plan in their business? To this question the fifth Observatory social enterprise set up by Ipsos for Cesi, in partnership with Le Figaro and BFM Business, employees say yes to a large majority. They are ready to mobilize and be willing to say "concessions strong": 64% agree to waive such 35 hours, 59% gel salary and 54% are open to periods of partial unemployment. However, they are less willing to fall – even slightly – their salary, with only 32% positive reviews.

This mobilization of employees is due to the amplification effect of the crisis on employment. For them, this rhyme in their daily lives with the non-replacement of departures (44%), stopping CSD or temporary assignments (43%) and, of course, the hiring freeze (43%). "Nearly one in five shows have seen an increase in its business redundancies individual or social plans," said Stephen Mercier, Deputy Director of Public Affairs Ipsos opinion.

This mobilization of personnel is indicative of a strong rise in the fear of unemployment among the working population. In this regard, the Social Observatory of the company is clear: 61% of employees surveyed believe they are likely to experience a period of unemployment during their career (quarter say it will happen "definitely"). "More than one in five employees even consider that there is a significant probability that experiencing a period of unemployment in the next two years," says Stephen Mercier. Women (29%), seniors (30%) and those working in small structures (34%) are the most worried.

In this context very dark, the Social Observatory of the company has sought to determine whether employees are working more and more their "employability", to be able to bounce back in times of crisis and loss of their jobs absolutely free credit score. In the eyes of employees, "have the capacity and skills to change jobs or business" is the number one criterion for finding a job (70%), followed by relations or the network (53%). "The training does not seem to be enough today to find or find a job, especially when the age of the employees advance: if 30% of those under age 40 believe that having qualifications is an important asset in finding a job Only 23% of 40 and over feel the same, "says the head of Ipsos.

Ability to bounce forming

However, employees do not act enough to "grow" these skills and so famous that "employability" essential to rebound. According to the Observatory, "only a minority of them regularly consults vacancies that may affect them (22%) and treats his relationships within the company (26% do so regularly) or outside the company (only 17%), including through professional social networks (only 7% do so regularly). "

The reason may be sought in a "self-assessment" quite high employability, which does not always correspond to reality: 78% believe they have such professional qualifications and experience in their desired field activity, 51% believe further that the professional training they have benefited enable them to stay abreast of developments in their field. They show, however, more conservative (and realistic?) On their ability to leave their current field of activity, since only 40% believe that, if they wished, they would be easy to find a job in a company operating in an area different from their own.

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