Le Parisien, AFP and the website of Le Figaro relay the same information concerning manufacturing HB-Henriot:
HB-Henriot looking for a buyer
The faience Quimper HB Henriot, whose ears bowl painted by hand is one of the leading products Heritage tableware Breton, was placed into receivership and is now seeking a buyer, officials said Tuesday from the company. "The bankruptcy will allow investors to come forward," he told AFP spokesman HB Henriot. He also said that there is no "threat to employment" and the company that honors its controls work "normally".
HB Henriot, which employs 50 employees and annual sales of 2 million, suffered the brunt of competition from Asia, primarily in the bowl invented Breton in 1936 by the SME. Bowls ears, with a name painted, had been a huge success with first holiday of the Popular Front. The potter is now more a leader on this market due to high production cost. "We are copied on this product," said the spokesman, who said that the entire production of HB Henriot is "100% French" and "entirely painted by hand."
"is a characteristic of the company," while the competition uses a method of "transfer" to print bowls, he also said. The municipality of Quimper, who wishes to preserve the know-how of the potter installed in the city Finisterian since the seventeenth century, acquired the premises of the company for 2.4 million euros, according to its mayor Bernard PS Poignant, contacted by AFP.
"Me, I would hate it (the company HB Henriot) disappears. I really hope that there will be a buyer," said Poignant, stating that several candidates were in the ranks, whose company Quimper garment Armor Lux.
But its CEO Jean-Guy Le Floc'h, who will not give a response until a fortnight believes that it is "too early" to decide. "We have not had time to study the issue," said the hosier Quimper.
The Source Figaro.fr
The Telegram February 9 returned briefly to this information:
Recovery of HB-Henriot: Armor Lux does not deny nor confirm
Armor Lux candidate rerpise HB-Henriot? The question on everyone's lips in Quimper since the announcement of the bankruptcy reorganization of the famous pottery Quimper Friday.
"We have studied the record, a year ago," confirmed yesterday that Jean-Guy Le Floc'h, the CEO of hosiery Quimper. Without giving effect however. Placement into receivership of pottery exchange he gives? "It is too early to tell," he says, neither confirming, nor denies review the case. The Commercial Court has appointed Mr. Walter, court administrator.
Source The Telegram
The Telegram February 9 returned briefly to this information:
Recovery of HB-Henriot: Armor Lux does not deny nor confirm
Armor Lux candidate rerpise HB-Henriot? The question on everyone's lips in Quimper since the announcement of the bankruptcy reorganization of the famous pottery Quimper Friday.
"We have studied the record, a year ago," confirmed yesterday that Jean-Guy Le Floc'h, the CEO of hosiery Quimper. Without giving effect however. Placement into receivership of pottery exchange he gives? "It is too early to tell," he says, neither confirming, nor denies review the case. The Commercial Court has appointed Mr. Walter, court administrator.
Source The Telegram
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