After San Marina and Kaporal, another French ready-to-wear brand is in turmoil. The Marseille commercial court on Thursday placed Minelli in receivership in order to “prepare the transfer (of the shoemaker) to a new shareholder to guarantee the most efficient continuation of activity”, management announced to AFP on Thursday.
The brand specializing in shoes, which was taken over at the beginning of 2022 by the managers of the Marseille brand San Marinanow liquidated, employs 500 people and has 120 stores and corners.
Management hopes for “a breath of financial oxygen”
The receivership “will allow the company to benefit from a breath of financial fresh air”, management hopes. The brand of shoes, intended mainly for women, and leather goods, was created in 1973, and at the start of 2022 still had 700 employees in 14 countries.
It had been sold by the former French textile flagship Vivarte (formerly the André group) to Stéphane Collaert, who with Laurent Portella had already bought the San Marina brand from the former French flagship two years earlier.