Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Halfords will restart in reduced form – NU.nl

Halfords will restart in reduced form – NU.nl

So let know the company Tuesday.

The trustees have an agreement with the franchisees on a restart.

The franchisees have jointly all 28 branches and buy 17 stores there. In addition, they take nine other branches on stocks.

In addition, the franchisees have bought parts from headquarters. Expected that the new organization will be approximately 75 to 100 former employees Halfords again offer a job.



Calls

Both parties are still discussing the sale of fourteen subsidiaries. Then the new company would consist of almost sixty stores.

is about mid-January 2015 more clarity.



Halfords

Retailer Halfords was declared bankrupt in early October. Beginning December the trustees announced that the original plan was to make a new start were off the table.

Due to the closure of the stores lost about

450 employees their jobs. The frachisezaken fell out of bankruptcy and continued in recent months open.

Retail Experts Paul Moers and Frank Quix rightly called the bankruptcy of Halfords. “Halfords is insufficient gone with market developments and has never clearly distinguished,” says Moers opposite NU.nl.



Two years

Since 1973, Halfords was active in the Dutch market. The company had a total of one hundred thirty stores, including franchise stores.

Halfords seceded in 2013 from the listed Macintosh Retail Group through a management buyout. The chain was then two years in the window, but the sale took longer than expected

Chain stores that recently went bankrupt

By:. NOW. en / ANP

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