«They are ready. The official announcement is about to go out». In the halls of the Dynastar warehouse in Sallanches, they know that the arrival of spring does not necessary bring «sunny» days. After two month of paid unemployment for 187 employees, the rumor is, the imminent reduction of manpower to a third or up to 400 people out of 1.400 employees of the group Rossignol is coming, equally integrating Look and manufacturing plant of Artez in Spain. For now, nothing is certain, nor confirmed, but all the eyes are directed towards the date of 24th of March and towards the next meeting of the group's committee, followed after with the meeting of the central Rossignol enterprises in Moirans and in Isere. And there, the announcement will fall. The fusion between Rossignol and Dynastar is one of the possiblities. The research and development services of the company would be concentraited in Sallanches, where the actual production would aim the high end market and it is the services connected to the production that would go through the most changes. In the same time, marketing and commercial services would be operated from the Isere side. The speculations that might be confirmed next week. Last November, consortium Chartreuse and Mont-Blanc, controlled by australian enterprise Macquarie, purchased the group for 40m€ from the american Quiksilver.
