Thijs de Beer Scoops Up Swinkels

Veldhoven, The Netherlands - In mid-April, the Dutch finishing company H.J. Thijs de Beer took over Swinkels Interior Textiles. When Swinkels'' former mother company, Koninklijke Textielgroep Twente N.V., filed bankruptcy in March, Swinkels, itself a profitable organization within the group, according to its management, went up for sale. Swinkels sales manager Coen Tolboom said H.J. Thijs de Beer outbid 10...