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“It’s the end of the story”: Puigmal, the highest ski resort in the Pyrénées-Orientales, placed in compulsory liquidation

The company Puigmal 2900, which manages the highest ski resort in the Pyrénées-Orientales, was placed in liquidation on Wednesday by the Perpignan commercial court, we learned on Thursday from the company and the mayor of the town.

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“It’s the end of the story”: Puigmal, the highest ski resort in the Pyrénées-Orientales, placed in compulsory liquidation

The company Puigmal 2900, which manages the highest ski resort in the Pyrénées-Orientales, was placed in liquidation on Wednesday by the Perpignan commercial court, we learned on Thursday from the company and the mayor of the town. .

“This is the end of the story, we have no idea what will happen next,” Eric Matzner-Lober, one of the buyers of the station, told AFP. Puigmal since 2021, confirming initial information from online media Actu Perpignan. Previously managed by surrounding municipalities, the resort which peaks at 2,700 meters closed in 2013 due to a debt of 9.2 million euros, due in particular to a lack of snow over several seasons. The six investors in Puigmal 2900 took over the station in 2021, in the form of a public service delegation, with a project to diversify activities to depend less on the climate.

But they in turn suffered significant hazards, with a broken chairlift in 2021 and insufficient snow in 2022. “It’s heartbreaking, it’s a site which represents a certain economic activity for the municipality” with four full-time employees and around thirty seasonal workers each winter, underlined Isidore Payrato, mayor of the commune of Err, to which the station belongs. The municipality must now decide on the future of the station, whether or not to relaunch a new public service delegation. In the meantime, it should remain closed at least this winter.

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