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- From: Martin Leslie Baker <mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 22:38:50 GMT
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- Mat Bettinson (mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- :
- : Some news; (We heard a couple of days ago but I've been extremely busy)
- :
- : Jonathan Anderson, joint MD of Amiga Technologies UK, and two other support
- : staff have been laid off from the small UK outfit.
- :
- : The reason given is "Very poor sales over Christmas."
- :
- : They are to go by the 28th of this month.
- :
- : The remaining staff are also moving from the old Commodore location,
- : Maidenhead, to the Escom offices in Stansted.
- :
- : John Smith, joint MD, will retain his post.
- ^^^^^
-
- Joint with who? Surely he is now MD?
-
- IIRC Jonathan Anderson has a longish history with C=, and before that
- Silica (one time big distributor of Amiga), what about J Smith?
-
- Perhaps Anderson can return to Silica and help them get straightened out.
-
-
- I don't think we can draw any accurate conclusions from this news. It
- doesn't make sense to have a seperate home for a handful of staff. I think
- one important thing to consider is that the office now closed was the
- former home of C= UK. C= UK was the only part of Commodore not to actually
- go under, in fact I seem to recall reading somewhere that they were in fact
- making a profit.
-
- What I would be interested in knowing is how much AT paid for C= UK, who of
- course weren't sold as part of the oh so infamous auction of C=. Also
- because C= UK held a lisence to sell C= Amiga in UK, were AT in a position
- of having to buyout C= UK before they could sell AT Amigas in UK?
-
- Anyone know?
-
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- | Martin | Amiga 1200 030 6MB 120MB HD CD-ROM | mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk |
- | Leslie | AT M1438S Supra V32bis | |
- | Baker | Motorola Motivated... Amiga CD32 | Scunthorpe |
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