• 08/08/2022
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Lisieux: When Bernard Tapie closed the Wonder factory, 10 months after bought it<

By Julien Lagarde published Le Pays d'Auge see my news

With a double cancer of the esophagus and stomach, Bernard Tapie died Sunday October 3, 2021.Man with multiple lives, he will not have left good memories as an industry boss.This is particularly the case in Lisieux (Calvados).

In November 1984, Bernard Tapie arrived in the capital of the Pays d'Auge with his Savior costume.At the time, the businessman made a specialty to take over companies in difficulty, often for a symbolic franc, to better resell them.

He puts everyone in his pocket

Fireman of the impossible, the one we call Zorro in economic circles came to reassure employees of the Wonder factory.The battery manufacturer has been beating for two years and the risk of seeing the Lisieux site closed more or less short was real.Big communicator, Bernard Tapie puts everyone in his pocket, elected officials included.

He promised "a bright future" in the Lexovian unit

If he confirms the layoffs of 125 people, the new boss maintains 250 jobs and promises "a bright future" to the Lexovian unit.

"Common sense would have liked, in a context of healthy economy, that we close Lisieux to concentrate activities on Louviers," he said after a works council.This card is not playable when we know the unemployment problems of Lisieux.I consider that the Lexovian unity has not been given the means to lead industrial combat ".

"Next year we will do money"

Bernard Tapie wants to change the image of the company so that "people are proud to be part of it".He announces that he wanted to make Lisieux a modern production place which, two years later, would be able to produce the alkaline battery ++, the ultimate in the market.

The company will not.Bernard Tapie, on the other hand, if.

A capital gain of 72 million euros

Ten months later, in August 1985, the closed factory.244 people find themselves on the tile.Employees multiply the events but the mass is said.Meanwhile, the Wonder action jumped ... 560 %!

In business since 1978, Bernard Tapie has made one of the biggest strokes of his career.In 1989, he pocketed a value of 480 million francs (72 million euros) by reselling Wonder to an American group.

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During his visit to Lisieux, he had nevertheless promised, his hand on his heart, which he would quickly stop "this job" of buyer-reveler."At the end of the year, I stop," he said.On a human level, it is no longer bearable.It's horrible to arrive in a business to play the role of Father Fouettard ".

The "Wonder site" will remain in the fallow state for 36 years, only part of this large brick building located near the station will be occupied by the Tanit Theater troupe.

Since October 5, 2020, he houses the Lisieux judicial court.Ironically, this judicial city brings together three jurisdictions that Bernard Tapie has often frequented during his life: the tribunal de grande instance, the industrial tribunal and the commercial court.

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