Dutch lingerie queen Marlies Dekkers in financial trouble

Lingerie queen Marlies Dekkers is in financial difficulty and her company is in talks with its bank on a new round of funding, according to business magazine Quote.

Quote says Dekkers’ underwear empire booked a loss of €2.9m in 2012 and the company needs to raise extra cash because the profit booked over 2010 and 2011 (€1.33m and €400,000) is not enough to offset last and previous years’ losses.

A spokesman for the company told Quote the retail group is not on the verge of bankruptcy and talks are underway with Rabobank to find a solution and a possible investor has been found.

In 2011, Dekkers won a copyright case against budget competitor Sapph for design theft when a Utrecht court decided Sapph bras with a band across the top of the cup looked too much like Dekkers’ own design.

ingerie queen Marlies Dekkers won her case against budget competitor Sapph for design theft when a Utrecht court decided Sapph bras with a band across the top of the cup looked too much like Dekkers’ own design. The court compared ten bras and three pairs of pants from Sapph with those of Dekkers and judged that four bras and one pair of knickers were in breach of copyright. The court ordered Sapph to stop making these models immediately and to pay damages. How high the damages will be is not yet known. – See more at: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2011/05/marlies_dekkers_wins_bra_wars.php#sthash.LzWfYNNM.dpuf
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