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Company death list of 2009
- Thread starter Guy Fawkes
- Start date
ben andrews' girlfriend
Nurse Laura
Wallis
TK Maxx
Game
Foot Locker
Dorothy Perkins
TK Maxx
Game
Foot Locker
Dorothy Perkins
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,401
BHS
Sussex Stationers
The Brewery Tap
Comet
Every shop selling 'funny' clothes for dogs
Sussex Stationers
The Brewery Tap
Comet
Every shop selling 'funny' clothes for dogs
Cian
Well-known member
Was the busiest of the shops in the retail park down the road from work when I dropped in for some stuff on the way home...
Cian
Well-known member
BHS
Sussex Stationers
The Brewery Tap
Comet
Every shop selling 'funny' clothes for dogs
Not a hope - parent firm has enough cash to keep it running even as a loss making division until an upturn.
The Merry Prankster
Pactum serva
Debenhams
Soton Seagull
Well-known member
Superdrug
Taybha
Whalewhine
Funny clothes for dogs? does that include lingerie
Seasider78
Well-known member
- Nov 14, 2004
- 6,011
PC World
Borders
Jessops
Sussex Stationers
Threshers
Borders
Jessops
Sussex Stationers
Threshers
Braders
Abi Fletchers Gimpboy
Forfars
DFS
DFS
Ford Motor Company
Would have seemed unthinkable even 12 months ago, but I have it on good authority that part of their restructuring plan is to shutter all European operations and focus their dwindling resources in the US in an attempt to revive their north American business. (Unless of course they file for bankruptcy first). Europe will be the preserve of the French, German and Italian auto makers, whilst the Americans will retreat back across the Atlantic. The UK car market has ground to a halt; car dealers will drop like flies in the next few months and without a large dealer network they have no way of shifting the volume of cars they need to sustain anything like a viable manufacturing plan.
Don't buy a Ford if you plan on them being here to honour any 3 year warranties...
Would have seemed unthinkable even 12 months ago, but I have it on good authority that part of their restructuring plan is to shutter all European operations and focus their dwindling resources in the US in an attempt to revive their north American business. (Unless of course they file for bankruptcy first). Europe will be the preserve of the French, German and Italian auto makers, whilst the Americans will retreat back across the Atlantic. The UK car market has ground to a halt; car dealers will drop like flies in the next few months and without a large dealer network they have no way of shifting the volume of cars they need to sustain anything like a viable manufacturing plan.
Don't buy a Ford if you plan on them being here to honour any 3 year warranties...
bhaexpress
New member
Find that hard to believe, bearing in mind that the Focus, Fiesta and Mondeo sweep all others away.
Trouble is, they lose money on virtually all these models. The only way companies like Ford make cash is by selling big, big volumes. But the retail and corporate markets have simply evaporated in the last 6 months irrespective of how good the cars are, and consequently the loses are mounting, with no end in sight. The Japanese manufacturers manage to produce cars far more cost effectively, and if Toyota, Honda and Nissan are making loses you can imagine how bad things are for the others.
Bluejuice
Lazy as a rug on Valium
I'd be very surprised if Game struggled to get through the recession. They're in an incredibly lucrative market with barely any high street competition.
Definitely be surprised if W H Smith were still around this time next year.
And at least one of the mobile phone shops will probably disappear, although I doubt it will be Carphone Warehouse
Cian
Well-known member
Indeed, massive increase in profits in the last financial year. Can't see them going anywhere.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,645
As far as I know, one William Ernest Archer no longer has an interest in Focus/Wickes/any other crappy DIY chains, but if he does, I'm sure I won't be along in crossing my fingers for a sharper than average downturn in whatever industry pie he currently has his fingers in.
Forgive and forget: MY ARSE
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,645
Currys/PC World/Dixons
