NEWS: Harsco Is Dead, Long Live SGB ?

phil181 said:
Considering that even the best scaffolding contractors find it hard to find competent staff, how exactly do SGB expect to recruit top-quality staff when the people who are doing the recruiting have little knowledge and no background history of the industry?

Most major scaffolding contracts are won on the basis of relationships with the client, competitive pricing and QA, not how much kit you have or what the name of your company is.

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Gibbs, that's how. He is the "G" in sgb. After his cruel snubbing on the forum he has risen like the Count of Monte Cristo. After 13 months of solar jobs in the Essex area with his old ford cargo "Lucky" he has at last got £1,800 together to make a hostile buy out. Him and Ragscaff (Stuart) the "s" in sgb have doubled up and are planning to take the country by storm. They are now looking for somebody with a surname or nick name beginning with the letter "B" to complete their take over ( and save on expensive sign board costs) Its so obvious , cant believe you couldn't see it coming. There even talk of them starting a rival to the NASC, cant see that catching on though.

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Havespannerwilltravel said:
In a 2013 report 49% of those asked said that bribery and corruption was alive and kicking in the UK construction industry. 35% said they had been offered incentives or bribes with a further 4% declining to comment.
Of course it occurs in other countries but we should be man enough to admit it happens at home too!
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I could give you the correct figures, but its gonna cost you HSWT.
 
“SGB, the originators of tubular scaffolding”
I would like to see the return of the competent SGB run by the likes of David Flood (the Major) and Brian McCann.
Peter Maggs was a great success for SGB running a very lucrative offshore division for many years.
SGB in their day was not just another scaffold company, they were the company that the rest aspired to be.
The wheels came off when they decided to look at scaffolding purely from an accounting stance they took to graduates as managers and introduced time and motion studies into a business that they neither knew nor understood anything about.
I, as do many others, recall the many attempts to rebrand and reshape SGB and somewhere along the line they forgot they were Scaffolders.
SGB; in my youth, were the trainers of the largest part of the industry and they were the innovators of the industry also, with fabrication shops and testing facilities in the Willow Lane Yard.
Whilst most of the industry choose to berate what was a very successful business a very large percentage of the industry emanates from SGB. SGB invested heavily in training people (myself included) whom the competition did not train but the competitors benefited from that training.

With regards their future, I wish them well but as stated in previous posts not sure where the correct level of management will be found. There are a few old school guys still out there but will they be tempted into a return??

Regards “facilitating” contracts within our industry in the UK, can’t say how long that has been the case as I have only been in it since 1974 and it has always been there in my time. I am however given to understand that the Yanks did their best to stop it at any level in the HARSCO SGB even down to having a bit of breakfast with a client.
 
Al, thanks for your kind mention of Peter Maggs who worked long and hard every day for SGB as did many others. Not many people are aware of his struggle with the Harsco board in trying to maintain the SGB Brand, which, in the long run cost him his health and proved fruitless.
 
The wheels came off when they decided to look at scaffolding purely from an accounting stance they took to graduates as managers and introduced time and motion studies into a business that they neither knew nor understood anything about.

This is happening again, however not GB this time.
 
The wheels came flying off when they went down the cuplok route. Young lads bashing and slashing. I have seen some of their "work" and it is fooking eye watering bad. They get the sh*t jobs that no one else wants. I can not see them challenging the big boys anymore as the sgb name is mud.
 
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