A year after the thunderous announcement made by the leaders of the Galeries Lafayette, the time is now up to the balance sheet. What stores will really close in 2025? Here is the list of confirmed future missing … and those who remain threatened.
Store closings are linked and unleashes passions. Many French people are interested in these cessations and other liquidations as if they were soaps. Among them is now added a name that makes the reputation of French luxury in the world. The adventures began a year earlier: the potential closure of around twenty points then made the headlines.
That year, the brand celebrated its 130th anniversary … A poisoned gift for a thousand employees spread across France. In particular, it is the 26 regional stores franchise and operated by the Hermione Retail group that were threatened. Those managed by the parent company of the Galeries Lafayette – 19 in total – had to feel in danger until then. But on both sides, 2025 reserved surprises that they would have gone well. Three of them will definitely close their doors this year.
Here is the list of Lafayette galleries whose closure is certain:
– Westfield Rosny 2 (93)
– Stock Exchange Center, Marseille (13)
– Prado shopping, Marseille (13)
The first is one of the stores managed by Hermione Retail. He appears on the continuation plan presented by Michel Ohayon to avoid their disappearance. Validated by the Bordeaux court in March 2024, he provided for substantial investments in order to develop the attractiveness of these dormant points of sale.
Unfortunately, for the shop located in Rosny-sous-Bois in Île-de-France, it was hardly conclusive. We are therefore entitled to wonder if the same fate will be reserved for other points of sale threatened to close if the figures are not good:
– Agen (47)
– Amiens (80)
– Angoulême (16)
– Bayonne (64)
– Beauvais (60)
– Belfort (90)
– Besançon (25)
– Caen (14)
– Cannes (06)
-Chalon-sur-Saône (71)
– Chambéry (73)
– Channel Outlet, Coquelles (62)
– Dax (40)
-La Roche-sur-Yon (85)
– La Rochelle (17)
– Libourne (33)
– Lorient (56)
– Montauban (82)
– Niort (79)
– Rouen (76)
– Saintes (17)
– Tarbes (65)
– Toulon (83)
– Tours (37)
As for the Marseille stores managed in its own, which was thought spared, Nicolas Houzé, director general of the Galeries Lafayette, explains their closure by the fact that they “Record recurrent losses for several years”threatening “Unlock the performance of the rest of the French network” (Release).
However, in this story where everything seems written, we are not immune to positive surprises. In early 2025, the Pau store, initially on the list of 26, managed to save its skin. It should reinvest the city center at the end of 2027, in its historic building located at Place Clémenceau. The exception that confirms the rule? Or the first in a series of regional to know the same renewal?