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February 25, 2013

OpCapita MUST be Investigated for the Running of Comet Ltd

OpCapita MUST be Investigated for the Running of Comet Ltd

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 8 months ago
This petition is to request that Parliament investigate OpCapita LLP for the way of it's handling of Comet Ltd since it's purchase in February 2012 from Kesa Electricals Plc (now known as Darty Plc) We would also like you to force clarification from Henry Jackson, Managing Partner and CEO of OpCapita in the way that Comet Ltd has been operated since it's purchase in February. OpCapita claim that it invested £35 million of its own money into the company but was also given £50 million from Kesa when the purchase was completed. Did any of that money get invested? Where did the money from the sales of stock go? As it obviously wasn't on stock replenishment? Why were we all kept in the dark about where the company was heading? Why did we, as staff, have to find out about going into administration from the media and not directly from OpCapita? If Comet Ltd was in such a sorry state of affairs, why was Chris Pavlosky, a former Dixons Stores Group Operations Manager (main competition) hired as an interim services director for the sum of approx £1000 a day? It's also worth mentioning that John Clare who was also appointed by OpCapita as Chairman, was also a former Dixons Stores Group Employee as Group Chief Executive. The promise was made that OpCapita would turn our fortunes around. Yet all that's happened is that we've been stripped down piece by piece until the company wasn't self sustainable any more. The staff of Comet deserve to know everything regarding it's downfall as we are currently working under the shadow of redundancy on a day to day basis with no communication from OpCapita whatsoever. The staff at Comet are expected to carry on doing our jobs, making money for the administrators to give to the creditors of which OpCapita will be one to make the most gain. We should not lose our jobs due to an obvious short term investment. Why should this company be allowed to profit from 6600+ members of staff losing their jobs?

Updates

November 30, 2012

We are approaching 2,500 signatures. Keep pushing so we can demand the investigation Comet staff deserve.

November 15, 2012

One thousand signatures on the board. The truth about what happened to us is finally getting the attention it deserves.

Reached 1,000 supporters

November 14, 2012

Reached 100 supporters

November 12, 2012

7 Comments

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Paul Beck
13 years ago Featured

Seems like they gutted it for parts just to line their own pockets. Disgusting behavior from these suits.

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Sarah Bennett
13 years ago Featured

I worked at the store for 5 years and we saw the writing on the wall months ago. They never cared about us.

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Mark Lee
13 years ago Featured

WHERE DID THE MONEY GO???

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Jo Rahman
13 years ago Featured

Just want the truth to come out eventually. Too many dodgy things going on behind closed doors at head office.

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Gemma Doyle
13 years ago Featured

Finding out from the news was the worst part. Total lack of respect for the people who actually kept the place running.

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Dave Herrera
13 years ago Featured

Absolute joke how they just walked away with the cash while everyone lost their jobs. Needs an inquiry ASAP.

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Ruben Nortey
10 years ago

Its criminal the way COMET was handled and the way staff have been treated.

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