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Man Utd's shirt sponser and the Curse of the shirt sponser

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
edited January 2009 in General Charlton
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7618852.stm

So what is the link between Charlton's commercial dept and Man Utd's? I wonder how he's doing? : - )

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  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,037
    Chambers?
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    I guess they overlooked the fact that Fads and Viglen also went up the swanny
  • stop_shouting
    stop_shouting Posts: 3,699
    & Redbus & Mesh weren't exactly Footsie 100 contenders either.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
    [cite]Posted By: TelinOz[/cite]I guess they overlooked the fact that Fads and Viglen also went up the swanny

    FADS was still trading long long after they stopped supporting us. Viglen is still trading as well as part of Amstrad
    [cite]Posted By: stop shouting[/cite]& Redbus & Mesh weren't exactly Footsie 100 contenders either.

    Both still going after they stopped sponsoring us. Both got bought up as successful businesses I think but may be wrong.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Id forgotten them myself...good call
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    I vaguely remember Fads pulled out because of the Hales/Flanagan confrontation as they didn't want to be associated with such unsavoury going-ons.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    and shortly after went bust
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
    edited January 2009
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]I vaguely remember Fads pulled out because of the Hales/Flanagan confrontation as they didn't want to be associated with such unsavoury going-ons.

    Well, the fight was in Jan 1979 and FADS didn't start sponsoring our shirts until 1980
    [cite]Posted By: TelinOz[/cite]and shortly after went bust

    Shortly? They were trading as recently as 2008 as Leveys (FADS)
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Fads were briefly owned by a company that I worked for in the 1980's....we asset stripped them, and sold on the carcass which traded for about 18 months before it was liquidated. Although Leveys have used the name, its not the same company as the one we are talking about from the 80's...albeit for all I know they may well have still been in the same DIY game.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    I stand corrected Henry.

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
    As do I about FADS.

    Terry the asset stripper hey! Not sure about him on the Fans Forum any more ; - )
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,488
    I was at the old RedBus building in Docklands doing a server migration last year. They're part of the 'Telecity' group now. The Soveriegn House and Meridian Gate datacentres are just as shit under Telecity as they used to be under Redbus.
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Ahh I said I worked for them...doesnt mean I liked what we did....I remember taking over a company called Brown Bear and having to strip out there office furniture...nobody had even told the staff that the company had been sold out beneath there feet...was a really awful situation.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
    [cite]Posted By: TelinOz[/cite]Ahh I said I worked for them...doesnt mean I liked what we did....I remember taking over a company called Brown Bear and having to strip out there office furniture...nobody had even told the staff that the company had been sold out beneath there feet...was a really awful situation.

    So you say but I'm warning Steve Waggott about you : - )
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    :-)
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Henry, have spoken to my people: seems it was the pitchside advertisements Fads withdrew for a few months after the fracas. I had an old-timers moment!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,444
    [cite]Posted By: March51[/cite]Henry, have spoken to my people: seems it was the pitchside advertisements Fads withdrew for a few months after the fracas. I had an old-timers moment!

    What would they do these days? ; - )

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