Lsame edition repeated in all stores Hyperxele. Cold rooms and empty refrigerators The critical situation of the Galician company was condemned by its employees. They have some vegetables, some seafood and a few breaded fried foods in them, but the star products are missing. Fish are hard to find at the facilities of the Vinova Group for one year. organizations that are first cuts light, according to different employees and that they have not received trucks with new products for more than 20 days. Template used by the company still august payroll, doing its best, after months after seeing how the customer was dissatisfied, stopped buying frozen products due to increased damage. Fearing a possible general shutdown, the business council of Xeldist (the headquarters of a brand marking its before and after in Galicia) continues to demand transparency from the management of the holding holding, citing its CEO Juan José Villamizar as the main responsible person. for the fiasco: “Okay employees who cannot pay hire It is very powerful that people who are helped by friends or friends can bring a plate of food to their children. All this is ignored. They are not valued.”
No stores are closed at this time, but when they close “all will be closed”. The impression that Faro de Vigo has consulted with multiple sources is that the company on the verge of collapse: Feared bankruptcy that will affect 10 stores in Vigo, 16 stores in the metropolitan area (including two in Mos and those in Nigrán, O Porriño, Baiona and Salceda de Caselas), 38 in Pontevedra and 102 across Galicia (with 34 stores) . from A Coruña, 30 from Ourense and 18 from Lugo). More than 300 jobs are at risk, about half of them in our province and about 70 in the city, all of them in suspense and those the company has paid late payments to in recent months.
Problems, as they showed, would arise when Hiperxel changed hands and Iberconsa sold its stake in the company to Vinova. This happened at the end of July of last 2021 and The first effects were seen in April. nine months from the current 2022 and just at the time when Hiperxel subscribed to a capital increase of 4.8 million euros until the total amounted to just over 7 million.
Then they commented on the streets of Barcelona, Salamanca or Conde de Torrecedeira, they started to feel like it. organizations received lesser amounts of certain productsdisappearing over time from incoming shipments and therefore from their catalogs.
The shops were emptying this last half year, until we reach the current state. Not only are the cold rooms located in the back rooms of these businesses to store materials abandoned, but also some of the refrigerators open to the public: about a third and all of them are turned off to save electricity. The rest remain stocked with repeat items, particularly frozen vegetables, shellfish scraps, and battered ready-to-fry items. lack of fish “star product”indicate that workers are now in danger of extinction.
“The situation is very bad and full of uncertainties. You come to work reluctantly, people come in, ask you about the products, and leave without buying anything,” says an employee at Hiperxel for over twenty years. “They’ve been telling us they’ve been trying to find a solution for months, but no solution has come,” another clerk says. A colleague of both of us said, “The goods we consumed went well until they ran out,” and reminded that they started coming later. fewer products and most “worse quality”. All continue the same version, backed by works council resources, pointing to Vinova’s current CEO, Juan José Villamizar, as the main person responsible for this crisis.
Sources close to the case point out that in this sense, the Vinova Group will not only stop paying employees’ payroll, but also stay up to date with social security contributions and food suppliers. all of its stores will stop purchasing), energy (certain buildings have already had power outages), and utilities (with landlords going to the stores to claim the rent amount).
“To deal with the customer in order not to lose him or to prevent the name of Hiperxel, which we lived and grew up with, from being tarnished in this incident… The store employee did all this. This was not done by the administration, ”says their share of the works council. “You won’t regret it, it gives youThey make the non-normal cry,” they add, noting that they asked the management of the business conglomerate “an explanation of what had happened from the first moment” and only received “kidnappings”. In this context, they emphasize that they are still waiting to receive the documents they have requested from the company. He wanted to analyze paper management.
In this case, a show is already being considered Next week will coincide with the strike, where workers are called for next Tuesday and Wednesday, 20 and 21 September.
This will be a first, although they do not exclude others, the sources mentioned show that it is possible to develop in Frigalsa. “They don’t produce anything because the stores are empty,” they stress, as the company still says to them “waiting for a way of financing”.
HE “vitality planHis statements to Faro de Vigo were confirmed by Vinova sources, who admitted they had treasury problems. keep all positions “Under no circumstances is it in mind to close any store.”