‘A shell-shocked, ‘totally paralysed’ and ‘relentless avalanche’.
The well-known entrepreneur Martin Thorborg comes with extremely harsh words about coronakrisens consequences for the smaller Danish companies.
“It is a gigantic disaster, we stand in front of,” says Martin Thorborg to B. T.
He has this announcement about the hit by corona virus:
“The few people who are going to die of coronavirus, and those I have really hurt, that is one thing. But it is water compared to all the people affected by it here,” says Martin Thorborg.
He is known as the co-founder of the company Leadership in 1995 and has been involved in a series of programmes on the tv as both judge and expert.
today, he is executive director in the Dinero, which stands for regnskabsprogrammer to entrepreneurs and small businesses.
And his company are now able to provide, how hard the Danish companies, specifically, is affected.
“The avalanche, the last weeks have rolled over Denmark, have been merciless to the country’s smallest and most economically vulnerable companies,” says Martin Thorbog.
It was the 11. in march, prime minister Mette Frederiksen (S) among other things, sent students, students and government employees home.
Denmark went on almost to a halt, as did the turnover of the country’s small businesses.
“Many self-employed are totally paralysed. They got a good start to the month, but all of a sudden there are no customers in the store, the orders in the order book is cancelled, and the agreements reached in the calendar is deleted,” says Martin Thorborg, and adds:
“Many are hit by an shell-shocked.”
on Monday night, it was from Mette Frederiksen announced that Denmark slowly begins to open up again after easter.
Specifically, this means that the children can once again begin to come into the nursery, and the smallest pupils in up to 5. class can start in the school.
Martin Thorborg, the prime minister volunteered yesterday out, that Denmark is slowly beginning to open. Why is there still talk about a disaster for the country?
“the Disaster is that we have small to 200,000 small self-employed sole traders in Denmark. And they are going to go bankrupt in droves,” he says.
Former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is his column in today’s B. T. quite nervous about whether the prime minister has chosen the right strategy.
Martin Thorborg fully share the concern.
“Do we, as now planned, will thousands of companies disappear and a large part of the basis for our welfare society will be away for many, many years,” he says.
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