Austrian firm Management Trust Holding (MTH) has acquired a portfolio of 184 discount stores in eastern Germany from the insolvent Mac Geiz household retail chain. The announcement of the sale of the operating and property businesses which employ a total staff of 1,300 was made on Friday by administrator Rainer Eckert. The financial details were not disclosed.
Austrian firm Management Trust Holding (MTH) has acquired a portfolio of 184 discount stores in eastern Germany from the insolvent Mac Geiz household retail chain. The announcement of the sale of the operating and property businesses which employ a total staff of 1,300 was made on Friday by administrator Rainer Eckert. The financial details were not disclosed.
The approval of the antitrust authority is considered secure, with completion of the transaction expected for mid-September 2010. Mac Geiz, which went into administration in May this year, said that it expects to be able to reimburse the creditors as a result of the transaction. The company has a total of 256 stores across the country.
CommerzBank's M&A department advised Mac Geiz on the sale process. Lampe Corporate Finance, a subsidiary of Lampe bank, acted for MTH.
Earlier this month discount retailer NKD announced plans to take over the business of 88 Mac Geiz stores in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.