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Centre — Val de Loire; Centre — Val de Loire; Loir-et-Cher
Location of affected unit(s)
Saint-Jean-de-La-Ruelle, Vendôme
Sector
Manufacturing (26 - 27) Manufacture of electrical, electronic and optical products 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
700 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 December 2025
Employment effect (start)
11 December 2025
Foreseen end date
1 January 2026
Description
The French household appliances manufacturer Brandt is cutting 700 jobs. The group was placed under court-order restructuring last October, before the Nanterre Commercial Court ordered its judicial liquidation.
Hit hard by the difficult conditions affecting the major household appliances sector and by the real estate crisis, which has led to a 3.9% decline in sales, the company is eliminating 700 positions, 350 of them at the Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle site and 93 at Vendôme.
Employees have around twenty days to decide whether or not to enroll in a professional job security scheme (CSP). Those who do not choose this option will have to register with France Travail. From January onwards, job-dating events will be organized.
Eurofound (2025), Brandt, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 203850, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203850.
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