Shoe manufacturer Arche is once again looking ahead. In early 2024, the French company applied for court-supervised receivership, after difficulties that had been mounting since 2018. Faced with the need to keep pace with a changing market, the directors of the family business chose this collective procedure. They have emphasised that the receivership was merely a phase, which has now been put behind the business. It served to facilitate Arche’s repositioning and to prepare funding for communications around its new identity: premium and contemporary.

Framed this way to employees as well as to partners and distributors, the receivership has given way to a ten-year continuation plan launched last August. ‘This turning point is paying off,’ says Frédéric Jacob, the group’s managing directo

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