Euro Car Parts closes LSUK

lets hope the new owners take adose of common sense and D O N T emply any ex management team or branch managers a bigger set of muffs woul be hard to find

. . As the main supplier to the AA . things are looking a little shaky !!

Have dealt with lsuk and lucas over the years and always found them very professional in solving problems not the cheapest but the best one asks the question how was the takeover sanctioned if the finance was not in place to sustain the buissness this apears to be a substantial loss to the UK aftermarket support network the new owners ECP would be foolish to assume the trade will return to them as suppliers

Very sorry for all the staff, but lsuk is best left dead. it has never been a well run company.

this is serious, and regardless who is to blame a serious investigation needs to be launched. looking at everyone involved, inc ECP and find out how this has happened. it seems LSUK have been well and truly shafted... and thats not fair!!!

although lsuk a competitor haved used them and always helpful and friendly. hope all your customers do not shaft you as well and think twice before they use ecp. hope you all get jobs soon.

lsuk have been a basket case for years ,any supplier new the risk they where taking ,thats business its no good moaning now ,bet if they where still trading everybody would be saying its only a matter of time but still sending goods out to them,they got what they deserved

would aa buy lsuk?

Firstly I am sorry to hear about all these Job Losses.

But ECP have previously purchased failed companies and turned them around.

Ecp purchased A.R.E when i worked for them. It went into administration and ECP paid all the staff there wages that were due from the old owners,they did not have to but they did out of courtesy .There is more to this story then we are being told and they would not have purposly tarnished there name unless there were some seroius underlying problems.

You would hardly send out loads press releases and website statements if you intended to 5 days later sink the company,, you would do it on the Q.T!

Oh Willie you are a sad bitter man. Are you still trying to save the world. It was because of people like you with your militant attitude that we did not progress.

I worked for lsuk between 2000 and 2004 and was shocked to hear the closure on the news. Sad to hear the loss of jobs i have many good friends from lsuk.

I can see ECP buying lucrative sites from the administators cheap then profiting from selling the others. This way ECP have expanded BIG time getting exactly the sites the couldnt get.

Mr Singh paid our wages for LAST MONTH, LSUK Management got us in to administration, all the directors and senior managers milked the company, they sold us down the river, but they will sleep happily with wages the company could not afford.

people are trying to buy up parts of this company but are not meeting with much help from administrators as they go onto a helpline number and previously did not get return calls from afore mentioned people want to help ex staff but how long will they wait

Why did LSUK senior management leave it so laye to find a buyer?
Why did ECP promise the earth and then ask for keys the following day?
Why did ECP change all the locks at their expense if the business was either in or going into admin on Sunday a.m?
Is it because he´s transferred ownership of a load of the assets to his company and wants to protect them?
Answers please from both parties, no more bull...just the truth, there were some bloody good people in the company who deserved a lot better. Oh, and to the dissenters like Willie who like to generalise all humanity based on a single personal experience, BUTT OUT !!!!

just to wish all X Lsuk staff all the best for the future and hope we all find better jobs very quickly.

It´s sad the way things have turned out. I´ve never used LSUK for parts, only ECP. But, I feel ECP could have handled things differently. I really feel for all the folk who lost their jobs as a result.

Cars to the left vans to the right into the valley of jobless walked the 600.
Forward the Lucas Brigade, these workers are dismayed. Not so that we would know. Someone at the top had blundered.
No one there to make reply.Theirs not no reason why. Just 53 branches raided and plundered. Batteries gone to the right of them. Bulbs gone to the left of them. Boldly we walked to get our things. Into the warehouse of no return walked the 600.
We had all worked so hard and long. Sold down the river for a song... Into the dole queue walked the 600.

Compared with most LSUK employees I only worked with the company a short while. I worked with a fine bunch of people and indeed a fine business, I enjoyed every minute of it and very proud, afterall it was part of Lucas! I can´t help to notice that most people are slating ECP for what they did to us, yes it was appaling but in my opinion are management was that great either. If they managed us in such away we could have evolved into a national leader, a winner. It was clear from a branch perspective what needed to be done! but hey although I feel very sad to have been made redundant it´s happened now. I hope everybody can get new jobs but as alot of you will agree it´s quite hard with all this doom and gloom around us!

I agree.
Let’s just move on.
I bet if someone looked into any of our lives they would find stories to write about.
Which one of us is truly righteous, 'Jesus', and look what we did to him
“Crucify him!”

i have today received a letter from Grant Thornton saying I now have to claim for westfield eventhough it was deducted from my wages is wasnt paid to Westfield.....