“A huge thank you to our customers”: the Decitre bookstore in Annecy closed permanently on October 31

The twelve employees of the Decitre bookstore in downtown Annecy, in Haute-Savoie, no longer have a job. The Nosoli group, which owns the Decitre bookstores, mainly present in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, has announced the definitive closure of the Annecy store. Since this Saturday, October 31, the store doors have been closed.

The bookstore, located rue Sommeiller in the city center, was opened in 1992. The Annecy store confirmed its closure, in a Facebook publication, with "deep sadness". “Above all, we would like to salute the commitment and professionalism of our teams, who brought these bookstores to life on a daily basis and shared their passion for books,” underlined the establishment.

A call for tenders without response Four other Decitre bookstores closed this Saturday, in Chambéry (Savoie), Lyon, Écully (Rhône), and Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine). This closure comes almost a month after the call for tenders launched by the Nosoli group. On October 5, it launched a call for tenders procedure to sell the remaining bookstore network.

But “no takeover offer has been submitted,” informs the team at the Decitre store in Annecy. The Nosoli group was placed in receivership last June. At the end of June, four Decitre bookstores had already been closed: those in Lyon-Bellecour, Lyon-Confluence (Rhône), Grenoble (Isère) and Saint-Étienne (Loire).

This group was born in 2022, three years after the acquisition of Decitre by Furet du Nord. The two entities then merged under the name Nosoli.

Machine-translated from French