he means the pacmate from freedom scientific.
orhan.
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60HumanWarestaff lose their jobs.
Which machine do you mean?
Have a great day,
Alex
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From: john Harden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: william lomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Noel Brailet"
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Date sent: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:02:36 -0500
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Fast fall 'from hero to zero': nearly
60HumanWare staff lose their jobs.
I sure wouldn't suggest changing to that piece of crap that the
crooks in Florida are putting out.
At 08:50 PM 1/25/2008, william lomas wrote:
hi all
god is it really worth sticking with humanware? we may as well
all
shift to another product instead of braillenote as looks like no
development gonna happen anymore
On 26 Jan 2008, at 00:40, Noel Brailet wrote:
Oh my god! what's happening?
From: http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4373770a24035.html
Fast fall 'from hero to zero'
By TINA LAW - The Press | Saturday, 26 January 2008
Christchurch has lost another manufacturer as nearly 60 HumanWare
staff lose their jobs.
Staff were told the news yesterday via a video link with chief
executive Giles Pepin, who was in Canada.
HumanWare, created by Christchurch innovator Dr Russell Smith,
makes
hi-tech aids for the blind.
An employee said yesterday the company would have nothing more
than a
branch office in Christchurch.
He said about six staff would remain, including two sales staff
and
four employees involved in research and development.
It was understood all the manufacturing was being outsourced and
the
research and development was shifting to Canada.
"I think some people were angry," the employee said.
"Others were resigned," she added.
"We've been through two weeks of consultation but we knew from
the
beginning the decision had been made."
Management would not talk to The Press yesterday and instead
passed on
the Canadian contact details of Ivan Lagace, the marketing
vice-president.
Lagace did not return calls.
At least two of HumanWare's vice-presidents were thought to be on
site.
Pepin told The Press last week that the two, Richard Nadeau,
operations vice-president, and Pierre Hamel, research and
development
vice-president, were staying until the end of the month to
reorganise
projects.
The redundancies added to announcements in the past year by a
handful
of local firms, including GPC Electronics, Click-Clack and
Skellerup,
of the axing of more than 500 jobs over the next year.
Smith built PulseData, which later became HumanWare, into a
high-profile multimillion-dollar company with 230 staff and sales
worldwide.
In August 2005 Smith, 60, died in a light-plane crash off the
North
Canterbury coast with his wife, Marian D'Eve, 57. Since then,
the
company has been through almost constant change, with new
overseas
owners and managers.
When Jolimont Capital, an Australian private-equity fund, bought
70
per cent of HumanWare last May it said no changes would be made.
Just four months later, eight staff were laid off, and in
November, it
was announced the company was shifting its headquarters to North
America.
"It's amazing how fast the turnaround was," the employee said.
"One minute we received a pat on the back from (Prime Minister)
Helen
Clark, and the next minute we're given slips of paper telling us
when
we finish. In the space of 18 months we've gone from hero to
zero.
Very quickly."
He said staff were told HumanWare would be out of its existing
building in Hillsborough within six months.
About 20 people were paid out yesterday and would not be
returning to
work on Monday. Others in manufacturing had been given departure
dates.
It was thought the company was attempting to find a local
manufacturer
which could take on its manufacturing for a short period.
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