1855 claim return to profit in 2011

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1855 affiche un retour aux bénéfices pour 2011 : 

'(AOF) - 1855, le distributeur de vins sur Internet ne connaît pas la crise. En effet, le négociant en vin a fait état d'une hausse de son chiffre d'affaires de 32,9% sur l'exercice 2011 soit 16,481 millions d'euros. Le résultat opérationnel du groupe est passé de 180 000 euros en 2010 à 1,462 millions d'euros pour 2011 soit respectivement 1,5% du chiffre d'affaires à 8,9% en 2011. Le résultat net est prometteur également : 1855 qui avait annoncé une perte de 209 000 euros en 2010 a affiché un retour aux bénéfices audacieux pour 2011 de 1,110 million d'euros.'

Shares in 1855 are now trading between 0.06€ and 0.07€ a share.

Question for Fabien Hyon, Emeric Sauty de Chalon and Les Répressions des Fraudes: 

If 1855 made a true profit of 1.11 million for 2011, how come so many of the company's customers have yet to receive their Bordeaux en primeurs dating back even to 2002 and why is it facing several hundred court cases brought by their furious customers? 


Interesting and revealing postscript:
1855 failing to pay their suppliers:
Comment here by Champagne producer Cyril Janisson of Champagne Janisson Baradon http://www.champagne-janisson.com/ on 1855 retard des primeurs on La Passion du Vin forum. Janisson says they are blocking six orders from 1855 as they are still awaiting payment of wine bills from November 2011 and January 2012.

'De notre côté, en tant que producteur, nous bloquons 6 commandes depuis Février... j'attend mes règlements de Novembre 2011 et Janvier 2012... aucune réponse à mes appels et mails de relances, et je viens de recevoir aujourd'hui les résultats audités :'

Let's make it easy for Fabien Hyon and Emeric Sauty de Chalon:
This ought to be their response:
"C'est vraiment facile !: we have discovered the perfect solution to profitability – we don't pay our suppliers nor do we supply our customers..."

When the fraud squad raided Verget: compare and contrast with 1855

Maine et Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen

The film of the persecution of Jean-Marie Guffens by the French Douane and the Répression des Fraudes (1855 exclus) now has English sub-titles. Click here See earlier report on Jim's Loire about this extraordinary affair here.

Affair Jean-Marie-Guffens: falsely accused by La Répression des Fraudes

Jean-Marie Guffens (photo from his website)

My Les 5 du Vin comrades, Jacques Berthomeau (here) and Hervé Lalau (here), have both posted on Jean-Marie Guffens, a négociant (Verget SA) and grower in the Mâconnais, falsely accused by the fraud squad whose agents have been found to have fabricated documents to prove their case.

A film about this case has been published on the La Revue du Vin de France (here) with a brief explanation on the Verget SA site.

Although I'm aware this is a different department of the Répression des Fraudes that is involved in this case, it remains unbelievable that the Répression des Fraudes allows 1855 (1855.com) to continue to defraud its en primeur customers with apparent impunity. If the Répression des Fraudes did take on 1855, there would be no need to fabricate documents and evidence.