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"No connection" to EPS

27th March 2003, Page 9
27th March 2003
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Keywords : Parkes, Surnames, Pallet

• by Dominic Perry The directors of new pallet network Pallet Track have moved to distance themselves from their former bosses at disgraced network Express Pallet Systems.

Two of Pallet Track's directors—Nigel Parkes and Carl Jones—and salesman Steve Dickinson were all employed by the West Midlands network (CM 25-31 July 2002). However, Parkes says that none of them were involved in the vetting of potential EPS member companies or the decisions that left creditors hundreds of thousands of pounds out of pocket.

Parkes adds: 'There is no involvement with any of the former directors of EPS, either in the management of Pallet Track or as depots within the system.

"I can categorically state there is no connection except for us being former employees."

Parkes claims that both he and Jones walked out of the company before it went bust. and were owed several thousand pounds in unpaid wages The new system will employ a strict vetting policy, says Parkes, already borne out by its rejection of Wellingborough based J Adams & Sons (Warehousing)—whose sister company went bust owing rive network UPN around £50,000 ( CM 6-12 Feb).

Pallet Track will be run along the lines of leading network Palletline, where each member buys a shareholding in the firm and appoints a director to the board. Parkes says this will prevent any director-level mismanagement. It is still trying to recruit members before going live in August, with its hub based somewhere in the West Midlands.


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