The takeover process for the bankrupt MBT by one of its Asian distributors, Andy Chaw, has been stopped. The Swiss court in Winterthur, which is handling the case, has reportedly accepted a request by Karl Müller, founder of the company, to review his objections to the sale of the brand rights and of some of its subsidiaries. According to a report in the Tagblatt of St. Gallen, Müller has developed a new shoe model that he would like to produce in Switzerland under the MBT brand name. He could not be reached for comment by the time that we were going to press. Meanwhile, the fact that deal has not yet been finanalized has caused big problems for some European distributors because they cannot get delivery of the merchandise, parked in a warehouse in Luxembourg.

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