Harry Crank Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 As the two-year old, twelve-page long "Jessops Strugling" thread is getting a bit too clumsy to navigate now, why don't we start a new one, a kind of "Son of Jessops Struggling", and call it "Jessops STILL struggling!" This will be the place to post all our Ooohs! and Aaaahs! when - yet again, for yet another year - the miraculous hullk is still alive after Christmas! -Harry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcus Posted November 18, 2009 Report Share Posted November 18, 2009 Hi Harry - love the photo.... i feel the same about Jessops as i do (now) about Woollies: there are many good stores that went to the wall whilst competing with the lunatic business plan that Woolworths had. our high streets lost individual and irreplacable shops. jessops are no better. so with apologies to their staff who are also victimns in this - bring it on before they create more damage to our town centres than they have already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilT Posted December 24, 2009 Report Share Posted December 24, 2009 Is this now the final ->> http://www.jessops.com/corporate/doc/Jessops_EGM_Circular_Dec_2009.pdf http://www.jessops.com/corporate/doc/Notice_EGM_Dec_2009.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coloursphotographic Posted December 25, 2009 Report Share Posted December 25, 2009 yeh it looks like jessops will be no more from the 20th jan 2010.... but i beleive there is already a new company ready to rise up and keep so many of the stores and dump the rest. anyone else shed any more light.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilT Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Mnnn ->> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7819452.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Deverill Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Looks pretty certain as they have appointed liquidators! I to would have to agree that they have driven many stores from the high street, by a ridiculous pricing structure that has meant that the value of what we do has been eroded away and will never return. They have priced purely with Market share in mind and never profit. Question. If they removed the baseline price on a 6x4 print from 5p to 10p would it probably save the business? I think it would go along way towards, and with a simple basis of selling nothing at a loss they could survive. It would seem to me that most of the people on this forum could resolve most of the issues the company has by using knowledge of the industry and business basics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilT Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 The think in my last post was it seems out dated :-/ my error in not checking.. For the general public this is not a good news story.. I would say that the whole way that the shares and info has been dealt with, and the info proved all has been rather "iffy" to say but the least.. Now lets see which Phoenix rises from the ashes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Crank Posted January 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 This "voluntary liquidation" is nothing to do with the Jessops stores on the high street. It's just a formality related to delisting the old "Jesssops PLC" entity from the London Stock Exchange. This entity is already just an empty shell that owns nothing. (Although, as Neil says, there are questions to be asked about how worthless shares in it have continued to be traded, and how aware shareholders and buyers have really been of its status.) The stores went their own way months ago. (I think we're all a bit like distant relatives gathered round the sick-bed of an estranged rich cousin, whom we never quite approved of, waiting for them to die!) Happy New Year! -Harry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QUICKPICS112 Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 A friend of mine went to jessops to buy a new cannon digital SLR and was told no stock available for the model he wanted for 6 weeks, so he tried a local independant and was told a simular story, went to currys and bought one off the shelf!!!! When I visited our local jessops they had no cameras in the window at all, only cardboard cutouts!! So they still seam to be struggling, but am missing gossip, dose anyone have any or know a site to read. Missing the share gossip!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noritsuvet Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Visit YouTube, type in Jessops and see all the videos their staff have uploaded. Obviously plenty of time to muck around judging by how many there are there. Cardboard cutouts is a new one - maybe the staff will be next, the door will be locked and website pasted across the front door? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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