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Increase in receiverships, decrease in liquidations, increase in collective proceedings: overview of business failures in Aveyron

Benoît Bougerol a succédé à Laurent Cantos à la présidence du tribunal de commerce. Centre Presse Aveyron – Philippe Henry

With an increase in redress in 2024 across the whole of France, the Aveyron Commercial Court is not escaping the national trend. It can still be pleased with a smaller increase.

2024 will not have been a good year for businesses, both locally and nationally. According to the research firm Altarès, 66,000 business failures* were recorded in France throughout 2024. That is 28% more than in 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic and the succession of economic crises. The research firm indicated in its report that this rate had reached a level “close to the highest in ten years.”

In the Occitanie region, between the 3rd quarter of 2023 and that of 2024, the increase is approximately 20%. An increase similar to that observed in France. It must be said that the end of the massive emergency aid put in place by the State has not helped businesses, especially the smallest ones, which are more affected by the phenomenon. 86% of failing businesses have fewer than five employees, according to the research firm.

The same observation in Aveyron according to the new president of the commercial court, Benoît Bougerol. “Most companies and entrepreneurs in difficulty are small businesses,without employees or with one or two”, he presents. As for small and medium-sized businesses with more than 50 employees, the opening of procedures has jumped by 47%, thus threatening nearly 52,000 employees in France. “But less here, assures the president. Aveyron is therefore spared for the moment by the acceleration of this phenomenon.”

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Restructurings on the rise and liquidations on the decline

The construction sector in danger ?

Among the sectors most affected in France, construction. With the rise in the cost of materials, the health crisis and the unstable international context, the sector has suffered. And the budgetary uncertainties hanging over local authorities are slowing down decision-making regarding public orders. “In the department, we are still protected from the difficulties that can be felt at the national level, affirms Jean-Baptiste Arcuri, the president of the Aveyron Construction Federation. But companies are still building on the achievements of the previous two years, which were rather good. We have visibility at least until the summer of 2025, or even a little later. But the aftermath worries us." A sector in danger therefore, both in France and in Aveyron, which is just waiting to plan ahead.

Some sectors of activity have been more affected than others. In 2024, the Aveyron CCI business difficulties prevention unit supported 34 companies, “mainly in the trade sector”, specifies the public institution.

Benoît Bougerol details. In 2024, clothing stores were the most affected – due to the national clothing crisis – small restaurants, and artisans who have often set up recently. But for him, “it is impossible to draw conclusions from just a few dozen cases”.

Let us nevertheless recall one of the most important cases in the south of the department, that of the Saint-Affrique slaughterhouses. Closed for the first time in April 2023 after a judicial recovery, the company definitively closed its doors in June 2024 when the Rodez commercial court acted on the liquidation.

*A business failure corresponds, according to the definition in force, to the opening of a safeguard procedure, judicial recovery or direct judicial liquidation with a commercial or judicial court. I subscribe to read the rest

Teilor Stone

By Teilor Stone

Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116