French home-textiles and décor retailer with 68 stores and made-in-France production
TDU Group operates a vertically integrated home-textiles business across 68 French retail locations, an in-house sewing workshop, and e-commerce, built on a legacy stack (IBM i, DB2, WinDev, PHP/Symfony) that shows signs of strain. Active hiring is heavily sales-focused (36 of 49 open roles), yet the company is simultaneously grappling with ERP modernization and inter-system integration — a pattern typical of retailers scaling out of monolithic infrastructure. Pain points cluster around inventory management and legacy-system brittleness, not demand generation.
TDU Group is a privately held French retailer specializing in home textiles, interior décor, and custom sewing services. The company operates 68 physical stores nationwide, a made-in-France sewing workshop employing approximately 50 seamstresses in Loire, and a direct-to-consumer e-commerce channel. Founded in 1986, it serves consumers seeking customized home furnishings, curtains, linens, and decorative accessories. The business combines retail point-of-sale with made-to-order manufacturing and cross-channel fulfillment, anchored by a legacy enterprise system.
Primarily IBM i, DB2, and WinDev on the backend; PHP/Symfony for web applications; Windows Server and Active Directory for infrastructure; Veeam for backup. No evidence of modern cloud or data-analytics tooling.
St-Chamond, Rhone-Alpes, France. The company also operates a manufacturing facility (sewing workshop) in Loire and operates 68 retail stores across France.
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