WR call in administrators

[r.bartlett]

http://cooling-post.blogspot.co.uk/2...ntracts.html#!

A number of WR Refrigeration’s major contracts have been bought by Integral, preserving 255 jobs. The exact terms of the deal have not been revealed.

I guess you haven't read the whole thread as this was posted days ago :-)

[przemo2]

multiskilled-order some parts and leave ....

[jonjon]

And how exactly will engineers be doing handy man jobs when integral don't have the contract for anything but fridge work, especially the ones on the Tesco contract?

They will have them go on other contracts so they hit slas

[yorkshire]

They will have them go on other contracts so they hit slas

So you are slagging a company off for utilising its workforce (if this even happens) sounds like you are one of the fools that think you are too good to do anything other than fix a fridge. Did you use to be a miner or steel worker? So long as they guys get paid what does it matter what they have to do? At the end of it they still have a job, that is all that counts.

[bill1983]

I would imagine that there are many engineers out there who have been through what the WR guys are going through at the moment. There are probably a lot that can point the finger of blame at the exact reason the company has failed. That is never helpful, even though it creates great gossip and rumour. What the WR guys need is the reassurance that there is a job that will get them through the next few months. I am sure that with tupe rules this will happen. I hope that the companies that are involved take the time to understand what these guys have gone through, get to know them and appreciate what they can offer. Some of the teams may get broken up initially and that's never easy, but you learn to work within new teams quite quickly. Your new companies will be different, sure, but not necessarily in a bad way. Give them time and work with them. The first couple of months may be frustrating because they won't operate in the same way as you are used to. This may be your opportunity!
Good luck to all of you

[install monkey]

best way you can ensure u get paid- is get a solicitor to contact all employees to then they can apply for a winding up order- the higher the value of the debt the higher up the picking list- thats what ive had to do-

[RONB]

All of us left on the WR business (not Integral)have been told to go to local office and drop off all company gear tomorrow. This looks like good bye time for a once great old company. I hope that as many of us can get sorted with a job very soon. Adios Amigos
Ron

[install monkey]

throw a sickie- and keep ur van, unplug the tracker and tell em they can have it when u get paid

All of us left on the WR business (not Integral)have been told to go to local office and drop off all company gear tomorrow. This looks like good bye time for a once great old company. I hope that as many of us can get sorted with a job very soon. Adios Amigos
Ron

[jonjon]

So you are slagging a company off for utilising its workforce (if this even happens) sounds like you are one of the fools that think you are too good to do anything other than fix a fridge. Did you use to be a miner or steel worker? So long as they guys get paid what does it matter what they have to do? At the end of it they still have a job, that is all that counts.

If it was utilising your workforce you wouldn't send a fridgie to unblock a drain. It grates on clients as they want first fix instead of wips. You wouldn't call a electrician to come and repair a boiler at your house! And yes I do handy man jobs so you can get off your high horse

[RONB]

Might just do that. I've had no payslip today!!!!

[Copperteck]

Ron I've had no payslip today either and I've been tuped. I'd want full pay before the van went back. At least keep enough stuff to pay your wage until you get it. Trust no one!

[jonjon]

Ron I've had no payslip today either and I've been tuped. I'd want full pay before the van went back. At least keep enough stuff to pay your wage until you get it. Trust no one!

If you haven't signed for it take it for compensation

[coolarse]

Tomorrow will be a black day for the industry, they will not be the last, 100+ years in business gone just like that, sad times, good luck to all the lads hope each and every one of you gets sorted. All the best...

[chillerman2006]

hmmm

http://www.refrigeration-engineer.co...light=Integral

[top engineer]

Just heard all the boys at wr products in swansea layed off .

[racmag]

New press release from PWC due out in next few hours, they are handling WR administration. Will post on RAC magazine website when out. Anyone else heard of any rumours on the situation, or just have comments to add as I will be putting an article together on this

Julian Milnes

[careerman]

A division of WR saved and sold to Integral, case division Lokold South along with head office Lokold central, staff now back in employment. I think they installed refrigeration cases for Morrison and the Co-op?

[neil]

http://www.coolingpost.com/uk-news/p...wr-job-losses/

[Newy]

Does anyone know who has picked up the contracts that WR used to cover? Aside from the ones sold to Integral

[Tayters]

Space have bagged some of the Tesco ones up North.

Edit: Perhaps not then...

[scotty w]

Has anyone that was not hand picked (face fitted) had there last week work been payed yet ???

[yorkshire]

Space have bagged some of the Tesco ones up North.

i heard the Tesco side was not been touched, but that space and carters were taking over the sainsbury contract

[RONB]

Has anyone that was not hand picked (face fitted) had there last week work been payed yet ???

Hello m8
Got payslip today. Haven't checked bank yet!!!!!! How u getting on with the new job
Ron

[spacemanmark]

Space have bagged some of the Tesco ones up North.

This is news to me!

Kind regards Mark

[Tayters]

This is news to me!

Kind regards Mark

Ha, in which case I've been told porkie pies from a Space tech that he was bagging the overtime whilst they covered calls for the new stores they had from WR.
This was the same guy who was telling me about the 10" pianist mind...

[r.bartlett]

Ha, in which case I've been told porkie pies from a Space tech that he was bagging the overtime whilst they covered calls for the new stores they had from WR.
This was the same guy who was telling me about the 10" pianist mind...

How does a Space guy in Southampton bag overtime in ex WR stores up north?

[Tayters]

How does a Space guy in Southampton bag overtime in ex WR stores up north?

Chinese whispers!
Something like covering calls for other regions whilst they mopped up the WR ones around Leicester I think. Perhaps Leicester is not everyones definition of North. ;-)

[NB12]

Debts of £60m? That's outrageous.
https://twitter.com/thefridgehub/sta...19798448844800

[r.bartlett]

Chinese whispers!
Something like covering calls for other regions whilst they mopped up the WR ones around Leicester I think. Perhaps Leicester is not everyones definition of North. ;-)

well to be fair there is no south in your world!

[hookster]

Debts of £60m? That's outrageous.
https://twitter.com/thefridgehub/sta...19798448844800

News is a certain wholesaler will have to swallow £2.5m of bad WR debt.

[install monkey]

that certain wholesaler has chased my old gaff over 1.4mill so no doubt they will be chasing WR

News is a certain wholesaler will have to swallow £2.5m of bad WR debt.

[hookster]

that certain wholesaler has chased my old gaff over 1.4mill so no doubt they will be chasing WR

LOL they will all be chasing 10p / £ and HMRC take the biggest share of the winding up value!

[careerman]

HMRC take the biggest share of the winding up value!

HMRC are classed as a non secured creditor so may not receive a penny just like the rest.

PWC will get most of the money, sorry will get all the money.

In my opinion the ex directors should be investigated by the DTI and disqualified from trading in the same capacity with another company. £ 60 million equates to £100 K for each employee at WR in loss woowwwww

[MikeHolm]

what is "tuped"? never heard of this term.

[install monkey]

get took on by the new company, on same terms of your last employment-usually its employees who worked mainly on a dedicated contract- different t shirt but the can still get rid of you after a year and you dont get your redundancy

[r.bartlett]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfe...gulations_2006

[neil]

Integral have spoken for the first time since the WR acquisition. Seems they acquired the Birmingham training centre as well: www.coolingpost.com

[r.bartlett]

Good bit of business, this will enable them to give a specialist service to the supermarkets plus all those fridges currently working on toilets and lamps can step up to the plate

[RONB]

Good bit of business, this will enable them to give a specialist service to the supermarkets plus all those fridges currently working on toilets and lamps can step up to the plate

You never know they might be working on Transcritical Bogs!!!!