All very well.......but what do they actually make? I've not seen a Viglen product for years (at least...not knowingly so).
Life after Lord Shugs looks good, as Viglen directors' packages swell
Being a director at Viglen has become considerably more lucrative since Lord Shugs offloaded the tech supplier to Westcoast Holdings. The last standalone financials from both Viglen and sister firm XMA (the pair have been integrated) were filed at Companies House and make for remarkably boring reading, but in a good way. The …
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Tuesday 31st March 2015 11:00 GMT Sir Barry
I just popped onto their website, primary business is public sector, health and education.
Manufactures desktops, laptops servers etc
Lifted this:
A major solution supplier to the corporate, education and public sectors, Viglen supplies information technology hardware, software and technical support to two thirds of Britain’s universities, culminating in Viglen becoming the principal supplier in over half of these, including Oxford and Cambridge. Viglen is also the fastest growing ICT solutions provider to schools in the UK.
Specialising in the design and implementation of quality, bespoke IT solutions, Viglen offers a complete range of products and services, from the sale of a single PC to the configuration and fulfilment of a complete Local or Wide Area Network.
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Tuesday 31st March 2015 10:56 GMT Stuart 22
Sugar Barrel
Do you know - I don't care a tinker's arse about how much Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, James Dyson or even Alan Sugar pocketed. They changed the world. Alan Sugar probably did more for the modern English novelist with his Amstrad Wordprocessor than anybody else.
They probably cost us less than two useless aircraft carriers.
They did what they did for more than money. But this lot? What is there contribution to society? What have they changed? How many people's lives have they enriched? More to the point how much have they enriched their employees they needed to deliver the goods?
Equality is a dream, but this level of inequality is a nightmare. Nobody is offering a practical plan to reverse. Even discussion about it gets kicked off the agenda. By highly paid media men no less ...
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Tuesday 31st March 2015 20:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Sugar Barrel
"More to the point how much have they enriched their employees they needed to deliver the goods?"
Not much.
"Bordn Tkachuk, was handed £657k, up from £245k."
Fuck me! (And I feel like I have been!)
The rest of us at the "sharp" end would have killed for that sort of percentage pay rise instead of the 1-2% we actually got.
AC, just in case :-)
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
