the company's general director assures that Renault “did everything to disgust the potential buyer”

Fonderie de Bretagne is a former subsidiary of the Renault group which has remained its main customer.

“Since the end of July, Renault has done everything to disgust the potential buyer”denounces Thursday January 2 on France Culture Jérôme Dupont, general director of the Fonderie de Bretagne, threatened with closure. Several unions (CFE-CGC, CGT, Medef) but also around twenty Breton elected officials co-signed an open letter addressed Thursday to Emmanuel Macron so that he intervenes with Renault so that the manufacturer commits to maintaining orders until 2028 for the Fonderie de Bretagne.

Fonderie de Bretagne is a former subsidiary of the Renault group which has remained its main customer. The site is threatened with closure after the failure of discussions between Renault and a potential buyer. For its part, Renault defends itself and shifts responsibility for the failure of discussions on the German group Private Assets.

Jérôme Dupont assures that Renault has stopped negotiating “in August”then saying that“they were on vacation”. “After, continues the director, They found all the subterfuges to try to explain that the project did not hold water.” Still according to Jérôme Dupont, “the buyer still stuck to his project and Renault waited until the very last moment, the day before the Christmas holidays, December 20 at 11 a.m. while the employees left on vacation at noon” to announce that the discussions had failed.

The general manager explains having brought together all the employees “to announce to them that Renault, definitely, did not wish to provide visibility on volumes and that therefore this would put an end to the takeover project”.

“I found it terribly violent that we were waiting four days before Christmas to announce something that Renault had known for a very long time.”

Jérôme Dupont, general director of the Fonderie de Bretagne

on France Culture

Jérôme Dupont then sent Christmas wishes to the president of Renault on behalf of the employees of the Fonderie de Bretagne saying: “Mr. President, the employees join me in wishing you, a few days in advance, a Merry Christmas. They will try to keep smiling in front of the crèche when they open the magnificent gift that you gave them. Even during the Great War, the combatants knew how to observe the Christmas truce.