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Hauts-de-France; Nord-Pas de Calais; Pas-de-Calais
Location of affected unit(s)
Courcelles-les-Lens
Sector
Transportation / Storage 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49.4 - Freight transport by road and removal services 49.4 - Freight transport by road and removal services
114 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 February 2011
Employment effect (start)
11 February 2011
Foreseen end date
30 April 2011
Description
STVE, a transport company, has been placed into compulsory liquidation on 11 February 2011 by the Commercial court of Arras, leaving 114 employees jobless. Following the take over of transport company La Flèche du Nord in January 2010, the company had to face severe losses and did not receive public subsidies (300,000 euro) it was promised by local authorities and the bank Crédit Agricole.
Eurofound (2011), Société des Transports Guy Van Elslande, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 71875, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/71875.