"In light of the on-going improvements in our channel management strategy,

and based on the needs of our customers, we are continuing the rationalisation of our supply chain, in line with our business model of continued growth&quot;</p>

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To translate - shutting a British factory down and moving production to Thailand.</p>

Account duly closed. Rep not happy, but fck'em.
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but did you take into account the higher margings that you will get now production has gone aborad?

 

No change in price to UK customers. Anyway, point of principle innit.

 

Yes. What brand so i know what to boycott?

 

Hoya.

 

neve rheard of them. must be a top seller

 

Used to be top, but been passed by others. No big loss to be fair. On their way out imho.

 

THy will find that shipping from the far east is not as profitable as it sems given the poor dollar prices, the amount of breakages in a container and the time it taks to ship.

 

Hope so. 46 folk out of a job.

 

everyones going to be out of a job soon, job centre said wednesday they had 4000 applicants inside a week