Textile Transformation

 

 

Used clothes trading

Amsterdam

Declared bankrupt May 2000 owing 500,000 guilders (about 1.4 million, 2,250,000), mostly to other Tvind companies

 

The story of Textile Transformation

This Tvind company registered in Holland in the 1990s was a subsidiary of the UK-based Tvind company, Customlong Agencies (later renamed Agence Notre Dame Ltd).      (A visit to Customlong's  address in the UK in 1996 revealed it to be a small seaside terraced house, most probably an accommodation address.)   The principal shareholder of Customlong for more than 18 months, Danish national Flemming Gustaffson, was also a director of Textile Transformation.

Flemming Gustaffson is known to be a long-term member of the Teachers Group and a director of other Tvind companies in Holland and, reportedly, Hong Kong.

The company traded widely with other Tvind companies, notably Humana in Europe and Planet Aid in the USA, in the 1990s (see below).

Textile Transformation EC Trading BV was declared bankrupt in Holland on May 23rd, 2000.    The company owed about 5 million guilders (about 1.4 million).   There were many unpaid creditors but four million guilders (about 1.1 million) was owed to just five companies, four in Jersey and one in Ireland.

The four Jersey offshore companies are all Tvind companies:  Holland Trading Ltd, Holland Enterprise Ltd, Holland House Ltd, and World Wide Suppliers.    The directors of these companies are or were Birgitte Larsen (a TG member for around 15-20 years), Karen Thorst (a TG member for at least 20 years) and Karin Palmelund (TG member for a similar time).

The fifth company, registered in Ireland, is Brichwood Trading Company, directors Bernadine Calerie Kennedy and  Darlene Aretha Penn both resident in the Turk and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean (another tax haven).   Brichwood is reported in Holland  to be in liquidation with a debt of 300,000 Dutch guilders (84,000) to Textile Transformation  -  Irish company records dispute this and say it is still trading.

All five companies are owned by a holding company, Coriander Holdings Ltd, Jersey.

 

Textile Transformation and export to eastern Europe

In 1998, Humana Holland asked the Dutch Ministry of the Environment for permission to export unsorted textiles,  through the company Textile Transformation EC Trading BV, but got no permission at that time.

 

Address

Oudezijds Voorburgwal 266, 1012 GL

            This is the same address as numerous other Tvind companies including:

                        Marco Polo Transport BV

                        Procurement White Hall Agency BV

                        

 

Who ran Textile Transformation EC Trading BV?

Poul Joergensen     (b. 1958 - not the same Poul Joergensen as accused of fraud in Denmark)

            Member of the Teachers Group

            Was also a director and sole shareholder of Marco Polo BV (Amsterdam), closed down in 2000

            

Flemming Gustaffson

            Director of numerous Tvind enterprises, including:

                            Customlong Agencies Ltd   (Sole shareholder)

                            

Kirsten Kristiansen

 

Sven Pedersen

 

 

What are they doing now?

Poul Joergensen is running  U'SAgain (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

Sven Pedersen is very involved with Kwa Zulu International College

 

Han Gommeren, Dutch journalist, writes:   

Textile Transformation was declared bankrupt on May 23 2000. If I look at the list of suppliers, it's loaded with Humana-members all over Europe.    According to the receiver Humana Holland 'lost' 500.000 Dutch guilders to EC Trading but anyway, one of the EC Trading-employees, Joop Trompert, now is working at Humana Holland in Bunnik.

The Dutch firm De Boer Groep, the biggest clothes sorting company in Holland, lost 1,5 million Dutch guilders on EC Trading, another firm (Wieland in Wormerveer) a little more than 60.000 guilders.

According to the receiver EC Trading was doing business with four firms in Jersey and one in Ireland. Two of four of these Jersey-firms are also bankrupt. Strange is that they all had the same director and the same shareholder who got millions in dividends in the years before these firms went bankrupt. The receiver writes that three of the debtors have the word 'Holland' in their name and were responsible for the biggest part of the turnover of the bankrupt firm in Amsterdam (EC Trading).

Here is a list of the suppliers of EC Trading:

Austria
Vienna
Humana, Perfekstastrasse 86-88, contact Mrs. Claudia Haslinger

Belgium
Brussels Humana
Gent Humana, N. Farmanstraat 2, Zeehaven-Zuid, mr. Jesper Wohlert

Denmark
UFF,
Copenhagen, Energivei 2 mr. Tom Miltenburg
Aarhus, Petersmindevei 5-7, Mr. Carsten Hansen

France
Paris Humana SNCF Gare de Fret mr. Eric Dorph-Jensen
Lyon Humana ZI Reventin-Vaugris miss Karina Bolin

Germany
Berlin Humana, Koepenickerstrasse 45, Mrs Monika Muesson
Cologne Humana, Herman Segerstrasse 33 mr. Moin Rizvi/mr. Neil

Spain
Barcelona Humana, Carreiera Nacional 152, mr Jesper Wohlert (again!)

Finland
Helsinki UFF, Jaervihaantie 12, mr Petri Vaeaenaeren
and two more towns which I can't recognize

Great-Britain
Londen, Traid Ltd, Unit 5 Landis & GVR Complex, Victoria Road-Gipsy Cnr 
Acton, mr Peter Stone, weigher Yeoman Aggregates Ltd
Londen, Planet Aid, 18 Goldsmith Avenue (no name)
Planet Aid, Stonepit Farm, Park Road Hartwell Mrs. Birgit Soe
Green World Recycling Ltd The Engine Workshops, Dock Road Sharpness,
Mr. Torben Soe (look at the names Soe!!)

Greece
Athens Humana People to People, Kalvou 77 Miss Karina Wallin
Athens Humana People to People, Gonari Dimitrio Street, Karina Wallin

Ireland
Dublin Humana Ireland 16 Palmers Court Palmers Town, Miss Pauline van der 
Stadt (Dutch)

Italy
PMI Humana Via Berlinguer 10-M mr Guido Bernardi
CRD Humana Via Bizarri 8-B mr Alberto Pedrelli
TGV Humana Via S. Maria Crosifissa di Rosa mr Flavio Pitozzi

Litva
Vilnius Humana People to People Baltic Senasis Traku Plentas 14 km
miss Ilona Daniuniene

Netherlands
Humana, Bunnik mr Rob Elsinga
Aratrans BV, Nijmegen W. de Jong
Dalwex BV, Nijmegen W. Willems

Norway
Oslo UFF, Tomte Gard mr Jesper Pedersen

Poland
Brn, Merkurv Ul. Swierkova 3 mr. Stanislaw Kulik

Portugal
PDA Humana Rua Bateira de Torneiro 1, mr. Per Albius

Sweden
Stockholm UFF mr. Steen Hili
Goteborg UFF miss Kristina Johansson
HBG UFF mr Bernt Hansen
LIN UFF mrs Birgit Soe (compare with Planet Aid Londen!)

USA
LAW Planeet Aid Clothes Collection 250 Canal Str. mr Freddy Olson mr. Per J. 
(Jensen? I suppose, former director of Humana Holland)
MILL The Gooidwill Commerce Center 2620 West North Avenue
mr Earl Schamick
STM Sea Traders Inc. 866 Forest Path mr. Ata E. Ukanna

 

After a search along several chambers of commerce, it appears that Humana is  doing business with Textile Transformation EC Trading Ltd in Amsterdam.   Activities:  im- and export and wholesale trade in clothing, Director and owner is Flemming Gustafsson , born in Denmark.    According to Brunklaus and Bent Johanessen of the Organisation Against Tvind in Copenhagen, Gustafsson is conected as a teacher to the Tvind-group.

[Rotterdam Dagblad, 1995]

 

I am very skeptical about the charity status of Planet Aid and their dealings with Garson and Shaw.  I also used to do business with a company called EC Trading.  They ended up stiffing me for four thousand dollars.  The contacts that I worked with were Sven Pedersen and Kirsten Kristiansen.  I was amused to see that this company was in the Tvind fold.  (US contact, 2001)