In receivership, the office partition company needs 10 million euros to revive.
Devastated by a cyberattack, Clestra, the Alsatian king of office partitions, is on the verge of bankruptcy. The Strasbourg court on Thursday placed this company with a turnover of 145 million euros and employing 700 employees in receivership with continuation of activity and six-month observation period.
The year had however started well for Clestra, which had recovered well from a previous bankruptcy filing, followed by a change of shareholder, at the end of 2012. Despite the health crisis, which has brought telework up to date and led to a desertion of open spaces, the activity of professional partitions is indeed in good shape. According to a Steelcase survey, nearly one in five French people want to return to business quickly; in the case of an arrangement of the workspace, this figure rises to three out of five.
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