Who gets the buck as V & D falls over? – Yahoo! News

Tomorrow Roland Kahn should know whether he has enough binnengehengeld leases for a successful restart with V & D. If he does not at least 35 houses can hire, is the troubled department store Wednesday closed and 8,000 employees are on the streets. Who can the buck than end up

The trustees
Since the bankruptcy of V &? D work on New Year’s Eve curators Kees van de Meent and Hanneke de Coninck on a restart, taking full employment is spared. The group of interested shrank in January from 70 to 2.

After dropping out of the UK retail investor Opcapita negotiated the trustees excluding recent weeks with Kahn, owner of CoolCat, MS Mode and America Today. If the plan fails, the question arises whether it is not better or Opcapita could have gone another interested in the sea.

Roland Kahn
Last week, Kahn was heavily criticized to endure. His outright denial that he was in the race for V & D, after RTL Z had been reported, though it was not a good start. He would also no clear plan with V & D and have experience lack of department stores. Finally, he is described as a difficult personality, which his interlocutors sometimes instrijkt against the grain. Some of that criticism, moreover, came from the camp of his main opponent, Hudson’s Bay Company

Whether Kahn is financially strong enough to V &. To save D is unclear. At the Chamber of Commerce has a number of companies registered recent annual reports. But there is no public report that gives an overview of the whole.

Hudson’s Bay Company
The Canadians have put everything to the bailout of Kahn and the curators to torpedo. Through lawyer Stibbe they tried to move landlords with great promises for the future not to go with Kahn in the sea.

On Thursday there was a media offensive in which was fenced with 60 stores and 9,000 jobs. The Hudson’s Bay in 2013 still made a loss of 165 million euros, remained underexposed

The bank Kahn
Kahn wants to start with V &. D has previously the approval and funding of its bank ING needed. Thursday, the trader argued that the funding was almost round, but ING would not confirm.

If the deal is stranded because the bank closed keeps the flow of money, ING blamed the blame for the failure of the restart get

rental
62 properties of V &. D in the hands of dozens of property owners of all kinds. The big boys, like insurance companies, pension funds and real estate funds, have a large number of properties in prime locations. But there are also ones with a single store in a provincial town.

Property owners who are not put under the plan of Kahn and the curators their signature, the risk that they are soon to book as the guilty to loss of thousands of jobs.