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Caddie: the famous trolley company liquidated
Caddie: the famous trolley company liquidated
(franceinfo)
The brand had long since entered common parlance, Caddie is preparing to be liquidated. The announcement was made on Tuesday, July 16, after several years of financial difficulties.
After having rolled for more than 60 years in thousands of supermarkets, the famous Caddies are definitively at a standstill. On Tuesday, July 16, at the exit of the Saverne court (Bas-Rhin), the very moved lawyer announced to the employees the liquidation of their company. “The court said stop, there are too many debts”, he summarized. A shock wave for the employees, dismayed by this decision. Among the 108 employees still active, many hoped that one of the two takeover offers submitted would be accepted. “It’s hard to take”confides Aici Hakin, a Caddie employee for 35 years.
Over the past twelve years, the Alsatian manufacturer has undergone four receiverships. A slow decline for this industrial flagship created in the 1930s. In 1957, the boss invented the first French trolley equipped with a swing door. It was an immediate success and, thanks to the rise of supermarkets, the company became the world number one. But Asian competition and poor management weighed down the company’s accounts. In 2023, the company announced the end of its production of plastic trolleys for environmental reasons.
