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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 06:14:14 GMT
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- Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
-
- : 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.
-
- Actually, Pleasance and Proudfoot threw in the UK towel. How could they
- possibly have made a profit without new machines?
-
- The only reason C= UK didn't disappear after C= Int'l did was because
- they were owned by C= BV, a Netherlands Commodore holding company
- partially independent of C= Int'l. Their number was just a matter of time.
-
- No matter how this news gets sliced, it's bad news when you lay off what
- is substantially your entire regional sales staff because they failed to
- sell "enough" machines on a near-zero ad budget.
-
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