Owner, Blocker, still interested in the acquisition of HEMA

the Mirage's Retail Group, the parent company of the Blokker Big Bazar, is still interested in a takeover of the STORE. That, says managing director Michael Witteveen on Tuesday in a meeting with NU.nl.

as before, the management of the STORE agreed with a group of creditors about a takeover along with restructuring, was the parent company of the Blocker to know of interest to them.

"We are still interested and are still working on it and will have sufficient funds to do this," says Witteveen positive. "There is a particular course of action, and we abide by the rules of it."

The online sales are less and less important
to The Block, and Big Bazaar stores, the first few months of the coronacrisis well-received, without any recourse to the aid of the government. Also, vendors and suppliers are paid, then let the Mirage's Retail Group will know about it.

"in Spite of the fact that the number of visitors is still 20 per cent less," says the chief executive of Witteveen, the holding company, which also Miniso and speelgoedwinkelketen Intertoys to include in the explanatory notes, the publication of the annual report on 2019.

in The online sales of the Block making only 10 per cent of the revenue, and the company is just fine. "We have been a retailer," says Witteveen. However, it is the hope that, in the long term, customers in-house to order, and then you are in the store. "It has got to be in the future."

According to the chief executive officer of mgm Mirage were the targets for 2019 is achieved, and it is in some ways a better job than I expected. "Our shareholders' equity by eur 64 million positive, and it looks a lot healthier than last year."

In the last year, with the loss of 200 million euros, reduced to € 144 million, revenues decreased by 817 million euros to 544 million euros. The latter is the result of the sale of the chains, such as the Shop and the closure of loss-making stores.

In the second half of this year, the toy store chain Intertoys is fully integrated into the group. That's about 130 stores, eighty-franchisefilialen, and eleven hundred employees. The chain was made in september of last year and bought it.