Angers Technicolor, close to the deadline in a increasing unemployment background

The long and anxiety-producing period which leads to a decision regarding the future of the Angers factory of Technicolor is ending. The Nanterre bankcruptcy court will decide on October 11th if the factory will continue to run or must close definitely. If possible buyers have till next Monday to submit their offer, on the previous Friday, none was received... And 350 persons could loose their job...

Only two candidates have declared themselves, among them an Angers company, Eolane, but these need that Technicolor gives a additional workload to make a transition possible. And the Technicolor group said it was not able to fulfill that condition. If that dark scenario becomes true, a industrial symbol of Angers will disappear. 

That would be,alas, in the line of the trend of unemployment in Maine et Loire since the last 18 months. According to a survey of the Comité d'expansion économique of Maine-et-Loire, the number of job-seekers has increased by more than 13% while, in the Pays de la Loire région, it grew "only" by 11,5%. Since the beginning of 2012, the number of persons who registered themselves at Pôle Emploi was twice important (8%) than the number of persons dropped out of the authority. These are not good news for Angers.