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Previously on "SEGA bye bye UK, Hello Bulgaria."

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  • AtW
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    So that’s under a fiver per year...

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    252 people to leave or lose their job
    Brexit will create 252,000 jobs paying over £1m pa. I know this deep down to be true.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    Bulgaria is one of the poorest countries in the world, never mind Europe. No doubt Sega will be being offered large incentives to invest in the country.

    The sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow, are the remoaners going to blame brexit for that too?
    Erm, very low costs ARE the incentive, the only extra thing needed in these countries is political guarantee corrupt officials won’t raid the company (usually that is easy since in the poorest countries bribes are not very high either)

    The fact that Bulgaria is pretty poor guarantees they won’t do Brexit anytime soon

    Execs can live in France/Italy and commute

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    Bulgaria is one of the poorest countries in the world, never mind Europe. No doubt Sega will be being offered large incentives to invest in the country.

    The sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow, are the remoaners going to blame brexit for that too?
    The same reasons why Nissan went to Sunderland

    Sent from my CLT-L29 using Tapatalk

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  • BlasterBates
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    In summary, half hanging out the EU has damaged the UK's manufacturing industry, resulting in the EU being blamed for the malaise, Brexit is simply the death knell.

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  • BlasterBates
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    Friday, 8 February, 2002, 08:42 GMT

    About 3.8 million people were in manufacturing jobs in the UK last November.
    Manufacturing statistics

    UK manufacturing currently employs 2.6 million people
    600,000 jobs lost in manufacturing in the last decade

    A million jobs have disappeared since 2002

    ...ah but this is nothing to do with the Euro, everyone else is losing jobs:

    oh, hang on

    Employment in German manufacturing sector hit record high in 2014 | Reuters

    The number of people employed in Germany’s manufacturing sector rose to a record high of 5.3 million at the end of last year, data from the Statistics Office showed on Tuesday, underscoring the strength of the mighty sector of Europe’s largest economy.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    The reason for leaving is Brexit.

    You are acting like an ostrich and burying your head in the sand. Japan wants their European Headquarters to be in an EU country.

    BG has a reputation for having well educated staff. BG has a long history in IT development going back to communist times due to the emphasis on teaching maths and science.

    DHL for instance moved to Prague 15+ years ago, many others did as well, some of my ex employers built a huge service centre there 10 years ago and one in India & Mexico. why because they were cheap.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Perhaps it had something to do with you, vetran?


    hey if you think I convinced the CEO of multi billion dollar companies to offshore factories throughout the MEDCs then you are sadly mistaken. They just realised LEDC staff are cheaper and have fewer rights.

    I can see why you believe all the Bremoaner bollux.

    was this caused by Brexit then?

    BBC News | BUSINESS | UK manufacturers lured overseas

    Friday, 8 February, 2002, 08:42 GMT

    Things have got even worse in recent years, due to the strength of the British pound which is undermining competitiveness even further.And companies such as Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever and car makers Nissan and Honda have already warned that they may be forced to go elsewhere unless the UK embraces the euro.
    About 3.8 million people were in manufacturing jobs in the UK last November, 150,000 fewer than in the previous year. This year, the most pessimistic forecasters expect another 180,000 jobs to go.

    do any of those names look familiar?
    Last edited by vetran; 14 October 2018, 10:50.

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  • BlasterBates
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    Bulgaria is one of the poorest countries in the world, never mind Europe. No doubt Sega will be being offered large incentives to invest in the country.

    The sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow, are the remoaners going to blame brexit for that too?
    Indeed why would you leave this:



    to go here:



    and live in a hovel

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by BlasterBates View Post
    You can buy a villa in Bulgaria for 80 grand, you pay much less tax and commensurate with the cost of living salaries are pretty good.

    They won't have any problem recruiting.
    Bulgaria is one of the poorest countries in the world, never mind Europe. No doubt Sega will be being offered large incentives to invest in the country.

    The sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow, are the remoaners going to blame brexit for that too?

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  • BlasterBates
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    You can buy a villa in Bulgaria for 80 grand, you pay much less tax and commensurate with the cost of living salaries are pretty good.

    They won't have any problem recruiting.

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    oh ffs its globalisation innit

    Been happening for years before Brexit.

    Most production lines that were in UK in the last 4 of 6 employers that I worked at were moved out of the UK the other 2 were either too small or did it in the 90s.

    Your desperate attempt to blame brexit is just sad.
    The reason for leaving is Brexit.

    You are acting like an ostrich and burying your head in the sand. Japan wants their European Headquarters to be in an EU country.

    BG has a reputation for having well educated staff. BG has a long history in IT development going back to communist times due to the emphasis on teaching maths and science.

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  • AtW
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    Perhaps it had something to do with you, vetran?

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  • vetran
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    oh ffs its globalisation innit

    Been happening for years before Brexit.

    Most production lines that were in UK in the last 4 of 6 employers that I worked at were moved out of the UK the other 2 were either too small or did it in the 90s.

    Your desperate attempt to blame brexit is just sad.

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  • Whorty
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    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
    Anything to do with the fact that they have relatively cheap labour? (I don't mean you of course, I'm sure you are worth your daily rate and expenses).
    There has to be an end to EU expansion into cheap labour markets, because they are running out of cheap labour markets. What's their Plan B?
    As I say, Bulgarians have great IT skills, are very well educated and have perfect English. I PM'd a datawarehouse and global BI solution; I had 2 developers in the UK, the rest were in Bulgaria and Iceland. They delivered everything to quality and time. Have worked on similar projects since and I can't say the UK based techies were as good. Saying that though, the Brits are better than the Aussies !

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