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Target Express Ireland have ceased trading

  • 27-08-2012 5:38pm
    #1
    frank gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭


    Might open op some opportunities for some smaller couriers


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  • #2
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    400 jobs to go at Target Express freight company

    Almost 400 people are to lose their jobs at Ireland's largest privately owned transport company College Freight after the company announced it had decided to cease trading. It's understood the company owed the Revenue Commissioners a sum in the region of €1m It's understood the company owed the Revenue Commissioners a sum in the region of €1m

    The company which operates as Target Express employed 390 staff in the Republic and the UK. It's understood that the Revenue Commissioners placed attachments on the company's bank accounts last Friday, and that despite ongoing negotiations, the issues could not be resolved.


  • #3
    frank gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭frank gallagher


    anyone know where the ex employees stand, (as i am one of them)

    know its early but we've been told next to nothing


  • #4
    theblueirish
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    I have just been talking to one of the drivers and he just got a phone call not to come to work tomorrow.


  • #5
    DPD Wicklow
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    My sympathy to all the lads who lost their jobs. I subbied to Target many moons ago, and always found Seamus McBrien to be fair to all his staff and suppliers. I can only assume something went seriously wrong.

    I dont know if any of the drivers were Owner Drivers, or if any of the laid off drivers are in a position to start up as an Owner Driver, but I have at least one opening for an experienced Owner Driver with his own van (obviously).Contact DPD Depot 19 Wicklow on 0404 65006 or email us, or PM me via this site.


  • #6
    frank gallagher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭frank gallagher


    DPD Wicklow wrote: »
    My sympathy to all the lads who lost their jobs. I subbied to Target many moons ago, and always found Seamus McBrien to be fair to all his staff and suppliers. I can only assume something went seriously wrong.

    I dont know if any of the drivers were Owner Drivers, or if any of the laid off drivers are in a position to start up as an Owner Driver, but I have at least one opening for an experienced Owner Driver with his own van (obviously).Contact DPD Depot 19 Wicklow on 0404 65006 or email us, or PM me via this site.

    Cheers mate, ive passed on the info.

    Also Liquidators appointed to Target, doesnt look like we'll be getting anytime soon.


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  • #7
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    The Cork Workers have a blog

    http://targetexpresscorkworkers.blogspot.ie/
    We know that the company has been in some financial difficulty in the past year. In recent months there were delays for the workers in getting paid wages. We know of at least one situation where a cheque to a worker’s father (having completed work for the company) in the Cork plant bounced in the past 6 months. We also know that at around the same time, a redundancy cheque to a manager in another depot also bounced. We are aware of large unpaid bills for diesel also in Cork.
    The message that we are making is clear: Target Express was not closed down in our view simply by the Revenue Commissioners. In fact, the precarious financial situation of the company is evidenced by the fact that a large proportion of the tax and PRSI that workers have paid in the last two years has not been paid over to the Revenue Commissioners. We believe that the management have been mis-representing the situation in this regard in the media. We do not believe that the Revenue Commissioners would have taken such action for amounts of money less than a million euro, where there were 390 jobs at stake.


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