2024-06-26 19:29:29
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Up to date 24. 6. 2024 12:42
Dagmar Havlová bought a majority stake in Prague’s Palac Lucerna for nearly a billion crowns to the BTL group. President Václav Havel’s brother-in-law retained a 25 p.c share. This was reported by the Forbes server based mostly on the statements of Havelová and BTL technical director Tomáš Drbal. In response to Havelová, the cash from the sale will probably be used for the reconstruction of the constructing, which has been a nationwide cultural monument since 2017.
In response to Forbes, the present sole proprietor of Lucerna invested Lucerna within the newly fashioned firm Palác PL. The corporate BTL Healthcare Applied sciences now owns 75 p.c of it, whose proprietor, based on the Register of Actual House owners, is Jan Vild, and the remaining quarter belongs to Dagmar Havlov, the widow of Ivan Havel. “Honza Vild and I’ve identified one another because the revolution,” Havlová informed Forbes. “There are a number of billionaires who would swallow Lucerne. It was essential for me to attach with somebody who will protect the custom, values and social function of the entire place,” she added.
Havlová determined to promote her share in Lucerne because of the excessive prices of palace repairs. “Every part will go in direction of intensive renovations and associated repairs, I am not taking any cash from the shop,” she stated of the sale. In response to Forbes, the proceeds from the sale will assist cowl loans for the sooner renovation of air-con or the set up of an elevator for the disabled. Sooner or later, the plan is to revive the historic railings on the roof terraces, the a part of the palace in direction of Štěpánská road, passages or portals.
“We had been based within the Czech Republic on a inexperienced area, we grew up with the Czech folks and we expect that we now have one thing to offer again to the nation. It’s exactly the those that Lucerna ought to serve,” stated Drbal from the BTL group to Forbes. In response to him, Havelová will proceed to steer Lucerna.
The lantern between Vodičková and Štěpánská streets was constructed by Vácslav Havel, the grandfather of the later president Václav Havel and his brother Ivan. Quickly after its institution, it grew to become the middle of cultural and social life in Prague. After 1948 it was nationalized, in 1992 the palace was returned to Václav and Ivan Havel in restitution. Disputes and issues adopted, after which the courts determined that the complete constructing belonged to Ivan Havel’s spouse, Dagmar Havel
In response to the data on its web site, BTL was based in 1993 and manufactures medical gear primarily for physiotherapy, cardiology and aesthetic medication. It has branches in additional than 70 nations and employs over 2,800 folks. In final yr’s rating of probably the most priceless Czech corporations, compiled by the Seznam Zprávy server in cooperation with the consulting firm Deloitte, the group was ranked twenty fourth with an estimated worth of 18 billion crowns. The proprietor of the group, Jan Vild, was a member of the Home of Nations of the Federal Meeting for the Civic Discussion board, later the Civic Motion, after the Velvet Revolution.