(FILES) This photograph shows a fake man with a sad face wearing a Christmas hat at the Brandt factory in Vendome, central France on December 15, 2025. Less than a year after Brandt went out of business, nearly one in two former employees of the French major-appliance group's factories had found new jobs, according to official figures released to AFP on September 30, 2026. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP via Getty Images)