Two things strike me - how a company can get away with getting employees to work half a month and then tell them they wont be getting paid at the end of it, despite knowing how dodgy things were and secondly, what the impact will be for marine industry in general if one of the largest distributors in the UK can go tits up...
When you fall out with your major suppliers at the rate which Peters have done, theres only ever one result. Once Peters and Sealine parted company the clock was ticking.
I was down at Sparkes today and there were a lot of sad faces amongst the independant tradesmen, since Opal were possibly their biggest customer by a factor of several.
Apparantly it was Peters who ended the Sealine relationship (allegedly) due to the huge number of dodgy boats and customer complaints/refunds/warranty work they had to deal with...think your right though, when they lost/ended the Fairline relationship, things seemed to go pearshaped.
I always associated Peters decline when they lost Fairline, they'd never admit that of course. Sorry to hear this though. It's a sad day for the industry when the biggest go down...
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