Unipart in administration
Unipart in administration
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HaloGen8

Original Poster:

1,413 posts

158 months

C. Grimsley

1,381 posts

224 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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I heard this was going to happen last week, upsetting news.


Carl

Stelvio1

1,153 posts

256 months

Thursday 24th July 2014
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Its not Unipart it's Unipart Automotive that is in administration - used to be Partco...

jamiebae

6,245 posts

240 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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Very sad news for everyone who worked there.

To clear up the understandable confusion around the Unipart name this is all the car parts bits of the company, and the national network of motor factors. So your local Unipart or Partco branch is probably no more, and you won't be able to get Unipart batteries, oil, filters, brakes etc.

It doesn't include the logistics and distribution bits for other companies (Jaguar, ASOS, McLaren, Vodafone, Sky etc), or the retail car-care stuff you buy at petrol station forecourts. The communications team at Unipart Group seem to have done an average-to-poor job of getting this message across and have resorted to shouting on Twitter at people who just call it 'Unipart'.

Sensibleboy

1,168 posts

154 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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That's a shame. They were always great to use and significantly cheaper than Halfords and the likes.