Season rating: owner Scapino again in the red – Wolters performs well – nrc.nl

A clothing store Scapino in Rijswijk. Photos ANP / Lex van Lieshout

Economy

The company behind clothing such as Scapino, Dolcis and Manfield in the first six months of this year again loss. However, the results of retailer Macintosh slightly better than the same period last year. Net suffered the group last six months 4.4 million loss

A year ago, Macintosh -. Also owns furniture store Quantum – still 31.2 million deficit. The loss this year is much smaller than in 2014, however is partly due to the sale of the sports brand Nea International, in May this year. Macintosh earned thereby once 16 million.

In the underlying results, which incidental windfalls and setbacks are not included, however, is little different from last year. For paying tax loss was 13.1 million, only 400,000 euros less than last year. Sales of Macintosh decreased by 2.6 percent to 203.7 million euros.

According to CEO Kurt Staelens to explain the lower sales and gross profit in part by the bad winter season. Therefore Macintosh had in the spring do the stocks at a discount of hand. Whether that is different in

the second half of this year, Staelens dare not predict.

Macintosh, in his own words in a transition year. The retailer anywhere hopes to sell this year, Quantum and about talking to a few interested people. Also, keep the chains Macintosh will moreover cut: in the clothing and shoe shops last year was nearly 10 percent of the sites closed

Wolters Kluwer benefits from exchange
addition to Macintosh and KPN. Wolters Kluwer also made today its results. The listed issuer continued between January and June just over two billion euros, an increase of 17 percent compared to last year. The profit rose by nearly a quarter to 235 million euros.

The higher turnover of Wolters Kluwer is largely due to the exchange rate of the euro, which is significantly in value in one year decreased. Therefore Wolters kept more euros over after swapping foreign sales, for example dollars and pounds. Without these beneficial effects, sales increased only 3 percent

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