It's a real institution that's disappearing. The Hélio printing works at Corbeil-Essonnes in the Paris region (91) closed its doors for good after 190 years of activity. But according to AFP, Scop's management is working on a project to revive it.
It was one of the oldest printing works in France in operation. Founded in 1829 and specializing in rotogravure printing, the company was for a long time a subsidiary of the Hachette group, before being sold to Quebecor World France, which became Circle Printers France. In 2012, it was taken over in scop by 80 employee-shareholders.
But in 2018, the printing industry suffers a hard blow. The Figaro Group withdraws the printing of TV Magazine from the company and entrusts it to another printer. The weekly TV Magazine accounted for 80% of Hélio Corbeil's business, with 5 million copies printed each week.
The scop directed by Bruno Arasa then denounced in a press release the "? constant pressure on prices exerted by the principals, whether they be supermarket products or the press magazine?. Le Figaro asked the printing house to lower the rate by 20%, according to the director of the scop for whom this was "?économiquement impossible?".
According to AFP, the company should put its four hectares of land up for sale in order to obtain funds for a new activity. According to CGT delegate Gérald Glancer, quoted by AFP, this would be a "?projet with three business areas, still in printing, but with very small circulation magazines, niches?". This project would make it possible to maintain the employment of approximately half of Hélio Corbeil's 90 employees.
