Redundancies
Hepher told us that the UK office had lost three quarters of its workforce in the last 18 months and the most recent redundancies were still being processed. It looks like there are now around 20 people in the UK office, including a distribution manager who deals primarily with Northamber, Ingram Micro and Bell Micro on the monitor side of things.
And it looks like the UK is pretty well catered for compared to the rest of Europe, where Viewsonic generally just has a country manager with a mobile phone as its local representation.
Of course the display industry has been struggling for a while, as evidenced by Pioneer's announcement yesterday, but it was still remarkable to find so little representation for a company that is still apparently trading in Europe.
Well that could be about to change. Hepher told us that EMEA and APAC MD Alan Chang will be visiting the UK next week to cast an eye over what's left of Viewsonic's UK operations. We hope to be able to speak to him while he's here and find out what the future holds for Viewsonic in Europe.
We would like to hear from any readers that have either bought a Viewsonic product or who sell them. Have you been affected by these changes? What sort of customer support are you getting? Let us know in the HEXUS.community.
