Thursday, February 9, 2012

Schlecker founder retires in summer

Anton SchleckerFounder Anton SCHLECKER wants to leave from the leadership of his bankrupt drugstore chain already in half a year. If all positive GES will his father completely leaving in August or September the company, said his son Lars SCHLECKER in Vienna. There will be a change in the structure of the company.At the same time, the company is intensively looking for finanzkräftiger support. An investor is likely and necessary, he continued. On the level of a possible participation and the number of negotiating parties he wanted to not comment. The provisional liquidator Arndt Geiwitz similar suggestions made last week which currently takes the relevant decisions.End of March, the SCHLECKER employees in Germany get paid yet their salaries as insolvency money from the employment agency. The heir of the company hope to come to get the family group from Ehingen near Ulm with a corporate restructuring from the insolvency. Important part is the ongoing closure of unprofitable and generous new stores opening. Lars SCHLECKER announced: Even the management remains.No money could plug but more in the insolvent parent company branches in Austria not betroffenDie family. If a significant fortune since we were sitting not here, said Lars SCHLECKER. Almost verbatim his sister Meike had manifested on 30 January in Ehingen. His father Anton SCHLECKER have three-digit millions invested in the drugstore chain to absorb the losses. My sister and I have put a large part of our assets into the company. We are not whining and we come their way. The foreign subsidiaries were not insolvent and should also be sent in the insolvency. Abroad, would be the largest growth opportunities for the company, said SCHLECKER and added: Austria is and remains on its own. SCHLECKER Manager Thorsten Rusch stressed that the Austria daughter is definitely not the German insolvency proceedings affected by. Schlecker Austria very good progress, 2011 a siebenstelliges clearly positive operating result had been reached. Also the countries that hang on Austria - had Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland and Italy - generated positive contributions, so Rusch.In Austria as first foreign market SCHLECKER opened from 1987 to stores. Today, there are approximately 970 branches and 3,000 employees. On 23 January the company in Germany had registered their inability to pay. Germany-wide approximately 32,000 employees in more than 6,000 stores are affected. This includes also the also insolvent subsidiary IhrPlatz.