(26 Jan 2026, 10:34 pm)Storx wrote Truthfully it's hard to answer as it all depends on what his goals were. If it was to have good customer satisfaction then yeah he failed without doubt.

However if his goal was a major restructuring with the aim to keep the wage bill as low as possible, closure at Bensham and return the area to a profit then you can argue he was successful.

I do believe there's got to be an element of the second part in there somewhere. Unless you're a complete psychopath, there's absolutely no rational reason why you wouldn't want to keep staff on and pay them more if you had the budget to do so. 

I kinda do believe Martijn was under similar pressure truthfully hence the CLS closure, as again, why would you do it unless someone is telling you to do so? It just doesn't make sense from a local perspective. 

Both these having absolutely disasterous results aswell and is pretty much the cause for every issue.

The closure of Bensham while done when Nigel was here, but discussions about closing it go way back to Kevin's day and was kicked off under Martijn along with the then FD Erik.