Question 2834 — alcohol and alcoholic beverages

Summary

Mr. Frédéric Falcon alerts the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry to the need to review the terms of payment, financing and inventory management for cooperative cellars. Indeed, while hectoliters of wine are purchased, cooperative cellars too often find themselves with large immobilized stocks and millions of euros blocked due to the absence of immediate payment of the sale price, therefore seriously impacting their finances. This persistent gap between the purchase and payment for hectoliters of wine can be explained by the practices of certain distributors, wholesalers and large brands. Thus, unlike retail sales where payment is immediate, wholesale sales involve a carryover of cash, consequently tying up significant quantities of wine. Faced with the tensions of cash flow linked to the gap between outflows and inflows of money, cooperative cellars are often forced to resort to pre-financing solutions such as factoring or adapted bank loans, in order to pay the warehouse, insurance and inventory management costs which remain their responsibility. He asks him if the Government plans to review the terms of payment, financing and inventory management for cooperative cellars.

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