By “congratulating”, in a statement released on the evening of Tuesday, December 11, “the firm offer and final” Punch for the takeover of the Ford site of Blanquefort (Gironde), Bruno Le Maire did not reveal anything new . For weeks, the Minister of the Economy keeps repeating that he prefers this transmission to the closure of a plant that employs 870 people.
But he has, very clearly, chosen to put pressure on the American group, which was said in recent hours rather inclined to close the site. Ford does not actually relive the scenario that, in 2011, had seen him being forced to take over Blanquefort, sold two years earlier to the German HZ Holding.
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