David Beckham has reportedly bailed
out his wife Victoria's fashion empire with £5.2million after her designer
brand lost £3.8m in a year.
It comes after Victoria, 41, who
made a turnover of £34m in 2014, set up her own store in Mayfair, London two
years ago.
The shop cost her nearly £3m and
items included Damian Hurst artwork on sale for £600,000.
The Director's Report said: 'The
contracts held by the company relating to the David Beckham brand were
transferred during the year to DB Ventures Ltd, a sister company of David
Beckham Brand Holdings Ltd which is focused on exploiting the David Beckham
brand.'
Chartered accountant and tax
lecturer Robert Leach said ‘The accounts suggest it is a transfer of operations
between companies owned by Victoria and David. In effect the couples are simply
moving the profits between themselves.'
At the end of last year, figures
revealed that David and Victoria Beckham’s earnings were said so high that
their second careers are even more lucrative than their first.
The couples are still very much
reliant on David for their personal income. However, as Victoria’s company made
a net loss while David’s companies, which have few overheads as they mainly
deal with selling his image rights, made £12.7million profit.
In 2011, in a far cry to her days in
the Spice Girls, Victoria was named designer brand of the year of the British
Fashion Awards.
Two years ago she was named
Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 by Management Today magazine for creating ‘a
company that is both real and wildly successful’.
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