BDC in administration

[Caravan Kate]

I've heard that Connect may be somewhere in the mix on this one-Anyone else know who would want to take this on?

What about the Commercial Division?-they are all still there.

 

[exbdc]

Who's Connect & why would anyone want to buy them? The name's not worth a light & there's nothing left other than stock & a few sites. Don't know about Comm. Supp. but there won't be the stock to fulfil their contracts.

 

[Caravan Kate]

Connect are the large distributors who own repaircare-what with the servicing connection etc etc it could be a goer as they are very Midlands based.

Ernst and Young are very coy and nothing appears in the press.

 

[Caravan Kate]

Wheres "The Watcher" gone?

 

[Apache]

Wheres "The Watcher" gone?

Nowhere - he's just watching

 

[exbdc]

Might see a fit with Connect as they own Welco prepack brand & might also want Comm. Supp. as an entry in LA's, NHS Trust, Yorks. Purch. etc. However their main business is spares & repairs.

Quite ironic as one of the family tried to sell the company over a year ago but everyone, including Rexel Senate, Stearn etc., walked away when Micromark was not part of the deal. Evidently he had to reverse Micromark into Bridisco as a condition of a

 

[Caravan Kate]

All Comm Supplies Staff gone today so that theory may not work now.

 

[exbdc]

Looks like it's closing down. Wonder how much effort they put into trying to sell it? To paraphrase Shakespeare "the first thing to do is kill all the liquidators."

 

[extension15]

I'm somewhat staggered at the interest in this thread....

A wholesaler, closing down...

:^O

 

[exbdc]

Not a wholesaler, a super distributor & manufacturer who most people in the trade have used at sometime. When 600 jobs go at a

 

[batty]

Its a shame if they go but they have had no stock for a couple of years. I have tried to order a couple of hundred pounds worth of stuff at a time but they end not even having enough stock to make up the minimum amount for an order.

Batty

 

[Apache]

Not a wholesaler, a super distributor & manufacturer who most people in the trade have used at sometime. When 600 jobs go at a

 

[exbdc]

I never said they were good. I left, like a lot of people, because of the crap service & conflicts of interest. I was only making the point that nobody, regardless of size, is immune in the current climate.

 

[extension15]

Not a wholesaler, a super distributor & manufacturer who most people in the trade have used at sometime. When 600 jobs go at a

 

[extension15]

Still, businesses alike are dropping like flies..

; \

 

[Caravan Kate]

I think a lot of you guys out there should say "there but for the grace of God go I" actually.Theres a lot of crap companies going down but quite a lot of crap electricians so we should all look at ourselves a bit.

 

[exbdc]

Tyneside, Manchester, Sheffield & Birmingham have now gone. The sites still open, that I know of, are Northampton, Harringey (Green Lanes) & Park Royal. Anybody knows different, then post a reply.

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

Still, businesses alike are dropping like flies.. ; \

As long as you are not Dropping your flies!... like businesses! :^O

 

[Caravan Kate]

Norwich and Nottingham still open

 

[Joey S]

I am sure the Senior management did everything in their ability to save the company.