Capital injection by V&D, banks to tighten
Edwin van der Schoot
AMSTERDAM -
Shareholder Sun Capital goes through the knees and pay $40 million to the treasury of V&D. That was saturday afternoon. Conversations with banks on the continuation of appropriations are, however, still not finished.
Sun Capital, on Tuesday evening to $20 million to collapse.The private investment company stated the position that everyone must sacrifice, to save the iconic department store.
As a loonoffer of 5.8% of the 10,000 employees $10 million. Further substantial reductions of its huurbazen V&D requires.
The banks Rabobank, ABN Amro, ING, of whom the last negotiations with Sun Capital, did not agree.They demanded Sun $40 million bijstorten would, as it is clear from correspondence of the last few days between the parties, which is recognized by The Telegraph.
that Sun has now done so.
Banks
Thus, the question is raised, or the banks also take a step, to come to a compromise. Since december 12, the trio the credit line of V&D limited of $42.5 million, to $22.5 million,Friday of last week and even to $9 million.
Further refused yesterday to the banks to provide bank guarantees, which V&D from 1 February - sunday so - in a difficult position in relation to its suppliers.
Response
This morning V&D itself responded with a statement in which it stated that the story based on the correspondence between banks and V&D-seeing Don Roach in the zaterdageditie of The Telegraph is contained inaccuracies. So says V&D also after 31 january still on a credit line to the banks. That is true, and nowhere in our story is also that this is not the case.
As said,The banks currently provide a credit line of $9 million, for the continuation of negotiations is currently hard. Also here is an end date, which is not only known, not even in this newspaper.
V&D also proposes that all workers, including the atypical work of La Place, their remuneration for january have received. In an email from last wednesday evening,Roach rubs the banks, however, that he was not able to pay these people, because of the lack of cooperation of the banks.
11 further, detailed questions based on the correspondence between Sun Capital, Don Roach and the banks would not V&D comment, as last friday also.
Exposure
Also none of the three members of the bankentrio wants it.It is clear that the exposure of the banks in addition to the credit facility of $9 million, purely still consists of a series of loans that come out over $8 million.
because the bank after the Tax Administration if one of the first creditors to in the event of the bankruptcy,Proposed auditor Deloitte earlier this month in a confidential report that the banks are not risks more walk.
The pr-firm hired by Sun Capital has now informed that Sun does not comment on what it wants to deliver.
Tax Administration
V&D-seeing Don Roach, also cfo of Sun Capital, mention in his conversations with bankers also has a deal with the Tax Administration.This is likely to be provided for, that there is an agreement to the vat contribution on the fourth quarter to meet later. It would be different in this weekend.
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