Some companies are changing the products they produce to help the effort, others are being dicks! There will definitely be companies I won’t use again and some that I will now use.
im going to try and use small local businesses rather than national and internal companies.
Companies I will be using
brew dog - now making hand sanitizer
m&n - making scrubs
boycott
wetherspoons - refusal to pay staff
sports direct - claiming to be offering a key service
Burger King - using the virus as an excuse to withhold money from suppliers
any more for either list?
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Airbus
Dyson
Ford
Rolls-Royce
All pitching in with expertise and resources.
HSBC - Helping ventilator manufacturers by offering fast-track loan applications, cheaper interest rates and extended repayment terms. *Edit – Still making profit from it. Right or Wrong???
Ineos - The chemicals firm, owned by Britain’s third richest man, Sir James Ratcliffe, is racing to build two hand sanitiser factories in the space of 10 days. 1m bottles per month and supply the NHS for free.
BrewDog
British Honey Company
Psychopomp
58 Gin
Verdant Spirits
All distilleries with much smaller capacity are drawing on expertise in making the alcohol required for effective sanitiser.
The Royal Mint - Making medical visors for the NHS after developing a successful prototype to help protect frontline care workers.
Carousel Lights - Making “protective sneeze screens” that would be sold at cost price to GP surgeries, pharmacies, care homes, shops and anyone else who needs to interact safely with the public.
Saga - Reportedly offered two dormant cruise ships as floating hospitals
Brompton Bicycles - Donating 200 of its foldable bikes to NHS workers trying to avoid the risk of infection on public transport.
Europcar – Renting motors to key workers for £5 a day under a special deal.
Leon - Coordinating the delivery of free daily hot meals to NHS critical care staff. Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory and Matt Lucas helping there
Carlsberg - Donated £11m to scientific research on Covid-19 (If only Carlsberg did breweries Oh!)
Diageo -Giving £1m to funds that support hospitality workers.
B&M - Donating up to £1m to food banks.
A combined fleet of nearly 24,000 vehicles from more than 700 logistics depots has been offered to the government free of charge to help distribute critical medical and food supplies, according to the Association of Pallet Networks.
So that puts Charlton firmly on the list then. Along with thousands of other businesses. Good luck with that.
Richard Branson a wolf in Sheep's clothing.
Apologizes to Wolves.
This has to be viewed on a case by case basis, in Philip Green's case he has based himself in Monaco where he pays zero tax and holds the record for the biggest ever annual dividend - something like £1.2bn (the payment was covered by the Arcadia Group who took out loans/went heavily into debt to cover it). When he sold BHS he left the group with significant pension liabilities, again after he had taken out very generous dividends (£586m - again tax free) - the pension liabilities were effectively left to us the UK taxpayer to make up. So he's a socialist when it comes to receiving government money and a capitalist when it comes to paying tax. Apart from all that there is nothing wrong with putting staff on furlough.
The whole concept is admirable but not workable. Look at the boycott numbers for Charlton and it’s obvious what will happen.
(I'll get me coat)