The fall of RBC Sud, southern model of excessive -end furnishings, sufferer of the decline in its market | EUROtoday

Montpellier, Nîmes, Avignon, Lyon, Lyon-sur-la-Sorgue (Vaucluse) … In lower than two years, 5 RBC Sud shops, specialist in design furnishings, based tent-eight years in the past in Nîmes by Franck Argentin, situated within the south of France, closed. Placed in receivership within the spring, RBC Sud was liquidated on July 21 by the Nîmes Commercial Court, and 55 staff had been dismissed.

The model retains an entity within the capital (by a separate firm, RBC Paris), situated within the fifteenth^e Arrondissement, with 22 staff, and 4 staff in its Nîmes places of work. One of the Lyon shops was taken over by the Silvera model. An illustration of a few of the illnesses of the French economic system: progress with out vigor, consumption on the finish and sluggish loss of life of town facilities.

The fall is vertiginous for this southern establishment of excessive -end furnishings, which, in 2023, achieved a turnover of 42 million euros. For years, she has developed diversified idea shops, with showrooms imagined every time by completely different designers and designers. His first house, open in Nîmes, brings the signature of Philippe Starck. “My idea was to enhance the unique piece and contemporary design in the provinces, to create singular spaces”explains the entrepreneur Franck Argentin, 61, joined by telephone, who doesn’t cover his emotion. “What we reside is horrible, I’m dissatisfied, it’s a actual heartbreaker. I’m unable to set foot in Montpellier with out crying. »»

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