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Old 30-12-2014, 07:55   #67
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Re: City Link goes bust

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Originally Posted by Maggy J View Post
The end result is that we as taxpayers get to sort out the workers one way or another...and we didn't cause the problems in the first place..As for due diligence I thought it was a crime to misrepresent how well a company is doing to any company thinking of buying it..If it isn't it's well past time it was and well past time any regulators did something about it.
That isn't what I meant.

Facts and figures only tell part of the story. You only know if a company is merely a potentially great company that has been run badly or just a company doomed to fail once you take the reins. Balance sheets, financial figures and reports can not tell you the potential of the workforce, the goodwill of a company and just how lucky they have or have not been.

Nothing was mis-represented here. City Link was sold as a "Fixer-upper" and clearly it couldn't be fixed. No need for any new regulations, just a reminder that not all companies can be turned around.
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