Bakker Flower And Seed Merchants

[bigbas]

I have a query with Bakker When emailing them I get no reply when phoning them I get sorry unable to help due to circumstances beyond our control Can any one help?

[wolf63]

It looks as if they have had financial problems. Scroll down and you will find an explanation. https://www.hortweek.com/future-online-gardening-sales-bakkers-troubles/retail/article/1455834

[bigbas]

I wonder how you start legal procedings

[Mamyalynne]

You may have to find the Bankruptcy Trustee and submit your fully documented claim as will all other customers.

That's based on what little I've read about this Company.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.hortweek.com/bakker-bankruptcy-leads-bbc-investigation/ornamentals/article/1457197

[Buenchico]

More here:
http://londonbulletin.co.uk/paneuropean-flower-and-plant-giant-bakkercom-has-gone-bankrupt-p6864-245.htm

[bigbas]

Thank you all for your help
I have found this
If you have participated in one or more promotional (win) campaigns before 30 January 2018, any prizes will no longer be available for (out) payment. In that case, you may also have a claim against Bakker.com BV You can also submit this claim to the bankruptcy trustee. When submitting a claim, you must enclose copies of all relevant supporting documents.
HOW DO I PHYSICALLY MAKE THIS CLAIM

[Buenchico]

The bankruptcy is being handled by this guy:
https://www.cees.nl/nl/ons-team/mr-emile-ten-berge

In the first instance, email him to seek information about making a claim. However when companies go bankrupt there's often very little money left to be shared among creditors. You're often lucky to get just a tiny percentage of what's owed to you.

[bigbas]

Thank you
I need more help please
The Dutch firms reply is

Please contact the trustee of Bakker.com in the local branch. Every country has its own trustee.

Any idea how all emails/phones to that firm never get anywhered

[Buenchico]

That reply simply doesn't make sense.

Bakker was registered in the Netherlands. They were never registered at Companies House in the UK. (It's not like the Toys R Us liquidation, where the US and UK companies were separate entities; Bakker was just a single company). Any claims against Bakker should therefore be handled by the liquidator appointed by the Dutch courts. (i.e. Emile ten Berge). It shouldn't matter which countries those claimants are in.

I still suspect that you're wasting your time anyway. When a company goes bust the first people to get any money that's left over are the secured creditors. (e.g. banks who'd loaned the company money against mortgages on their properties). Next in the queue for payments are the preferential creditors, such as employees who have yet to receive their wages or holiday payments. Only then do unsecured creditors, such as you, come into the reckoning (ahead of shareholders). There's often nothing left to pay anything at all to unsecured creditors or they might get back something like two or three pounds for every one hundred pounds that they were owed.