DVD distie goes titsup

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I'm alright, Jack. #

Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 13:03 GMT

A 0.7% loss (as a % of turnover) put them into administration and 121 people lost their jobs!!!

What's the betting that the sum of the salaries of the remaining 21 staff is, for example, easily double the stated £300k loss? Not to mention the cost of the management vultures that'll be called in to pick over the debris.

Just saying...

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Alistair James

I used to do IT maintenence for them #

Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 14:31 GMT

They were a good bunch there, I used to work for a company that did their IT maint, mind you they were using old ICL kit, maybe they still are.

Garth

Redundant seems the wrong word... #

Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 16:37 GMT

...when axing 86% of one's staff. There are so many more accurate euphemisms one could use.

teresa marshall

Job losses at s golds and sons #

Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 20:36 GMT

It is really sad when any company falls on hard times, S golds were one of our suppliers and I wonder how much of their losses are attributable to dvd piracy as just about anyone you meet can tell you that they have watched a film in advance of it's release date.

heystoopid

@teresa #

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 09:17 GMT

@teresa suggest you read this link for the word "piracy" is so totally over hyped as it has now become one of the most abused words in the Anglo dictionary !

link= http://www.allbusiness.com/business-planning-structures/business-plans/1440-1.html

or even this link too=http://forum.belmont.edu/cornwall/archives/003452.html

The polite comment is the intertubes search engine is your friend , for the tubes contain several billion answers merely seeking out the right question like a certain socialite well knows the real problem lies with the top two pointers failing to use their single functional brain cell properly .

tony trolle