French supermarket Leclerc is to appeal against a court decision ordering its purchasing arm, Galec, to re-imburse “discounts” totalling €23.3m (US$27.5M) made by a group of some 28 suppliers.
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The court found that Galec had breached French commercial law in receiving the discounts, paid retroactively, for commercial services which it had not provided.
Leclerc’s president, Michel-Edouard Leclerc described the court’s decision as “surreal” and claimed none of the suppliers in question were looking to be reimbursed or considered their interests to have been compromised.
