Auchan Retail had already announced the elimination of 1,475 positions in France at the end of 2020.
It's a “large-scale social project” which is about to be presented on Tuesday to employee representatives of the distributor Auchan brand in the Mulliez galaxy. The latter plans to eliminate around 2,300 jobs in France, AFP learned this Monday, November 4, from a source close to the matter.
Already 1,475 positions eliminated
Staff representatives from several entities of the group were summoned on Tuesday at 9 a.m. for a “update on the company's situation and its projects”. In the sights of the mass distribution brand: the elimination of around 2,300 jobs at different levels of the company which employs 54,000 people in France.
In detail, part of the positions concerned would be located at the level of support functions within different headquarters, the other part at the store level. The unions indicated a few days ago “that no official information has filtered out. But we all know the state in which the company finds itself…”
As a reminderAuchan Retail had already announced the elimination of 1,475 positions in France in September 2020 after a voluntary departure plan for more than 500 positions in January of the same year.
A net loss of 379 billion euros
Its holding company Elo announced last July a net loss of nearly a billion euros over the first six months of 2024. The previous year, the company recorded a net loss of 379 billion euros with a decline in sales of 1.7% (32.9 billion euros) while inflation benefited competing brands.
In France, Auchan is the fifth distributor, holding a little more than 9% of the marketfar from E.Leclerc (24.1%), Carrefour (21.4%) and the Mousquetaires/Intermarché group (17.4%). It is located behind the Cooperative U (12.2%), according to the Kantar institute.
A 25% drop in sales areas
Auchan recently joined forces with its competitors Intermarché and Casino to pool purchases of foodstuffs then sold on the shelves of their stores, for an unusual period of ten years. This pooling has aroused concern among trade union organizations, as has the announced objective of “reduce the commercial surface area of around a third of Auchan hypermarkets in all its European countries”or ultimately a “average reduction of 25% in sales areas”.
Asked by AFP, the group's management did not wish to comment.
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