Posts by Sean 6 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Aug 2007
England - Burnley - same place that Time (UK) is based.
The Evesham Tech reffered to here, is the one that went bust.
A Company called Geemore Tech Ltd purchased the name and rights. This is hte company that has the current web site.
Geemore had Richard Austin , and the Time (UK) people are directors. Richard Austin has moved on ... so basically www.evesham.com is Time (uk)'s ghost ship.
The same name used by Evesham for their range of LCD TV's. Could this be a CLUE to Mr Austins intenstions.
Flogging, LCDs etc. Sounds like it to me.
So the little fat Hobbit ( Austin ) will be out Car Booting them to the population of Evesham and Worcester.,
He used to have an interest in a TV/Satalite company in the late 80's.
Sorry. I am not the biggest fan of Eveshams Management and for sure, I dont like the way they treated their staff ... but to say they were spammers and good riddance ... is tosh!
I wasnt working there at the time of the SPAM Wall, however from my understanding, I believe it was a case of a mistaken approach. Something they were cained for .. and something they did not repeat. I very much doubt that any of the high and mighty here have not had any mistakes in their lives ??? He who is without sin.
The company lost its footing, for many reasons, from poor management, to the HCI being withdrawn at little or no nottce .. to the margins on PC's drying up. However they never ran short of clients. I am sure ex staff will back that up. People still lined up to buy product, it was just a case that the profit was not their.
The same things has happend to other uk buiders, who did not send out SPAM.
Evesham Facts.
1) They employed some of the best in the industry.
2) They produced some knock out products
3) They had a brand and reputation secound to non (distoryed August 07)
4) The had a poor management structure and never made the true leep from small/middle sized business into the larger corprate world. Everyone seems to agree the top managers messed up and stopped listening to those lower down.
It doesnt matter what Richard Austin and his mates do now ... the Evesham Days are gone. The brand and reputation is gone - I dont think the events of last August could have been handled any worse, if someone had set up to do so.
My advice to Austin ... go off into the sun with your money. As for the staff that are left .... I am sorry but the real Evesham died last August, let go and swim to shore. I like so many others left Evesham a long time ago .. and found bigger better brighter future elsewhere. Good luck
I have to echo Mike's words. I too Worked for Evesham (Micros). It was something / somewhere special. It is with great sadness that we mark its passing. Howevever I am afriad those days have gone ... the market has forever changed. We have massive internationals churning out PC's on wafer think margins. There is no real money in making or selling PC's.
When I worked in Evesham, we could get £3000 for an Amstrad PC2386, and that had a respectable margin of profit. Now we see systems fetching £200-300 plus vat.
Cheap PCs . . Great, however the world is a little less richer, without the Eveshams, or the other British Builders.
I suppose its like many other industries that have been and gone.
Sean
To be honest, I dont think they will want the domain, as they are not going to trade under Geemore. They will be changing the name of this company back to some form of Evesham Technology in the near future.
Just like Evesham Micros started like as a t/a for Walltone Ltd. Then in 1988 it became Evesham Micros Ltd and finally in 2002 it became Evesham Technology Ltd.
However I think it was a nice touch getting this domain.
Just a lite heated Notes.
In the early days of Evesham Micros, Richard Austin alwas used to wear Sandles and Green Socks. We used to reffer to him as Sandles. He looked a right Doyle.
His fellow Co-founder and Director Bob Hitchcock ( a real nasty peace of work, who used to love comming in twice a year and either try sacking staff for nothing or reducing them to tears. Sounds like he would have loved Friday) we used to call Mr Cheese ( Because he left a nasty taste in the mouth).
It was a company run by Sandles and Cheese.
I could tell you some stories .... Like a certain MD jumping up and down on a Star LC10 printer , that the user wanted to return , when no fault could be found on it.
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