New Owner for C5alive
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:08 am
From the C5alive website
" It gives me great pleasure to inform you all that C5alive now has a new owner !!
I am 100% sure everyone will be chuffed to hear that Karl ( booboo ) will become the new owner as of a week on saturday after agreeing to buy the business for a cheap price of £2.6 million ( hey ! what can I say, he obviously knows its worth £4 million !!! )
As much as I am extremely gutted and sad that I am having to sell C5alive due to my poor health, I cant think of anyone in the world who would be as perfect for the helm of C5alive than Karl. He has the right enthusiam and attitude to take the business to new heights and I know it will continue in the true spirit of what C5alive is all about.
I have really really enjoyed running the business over the last 17 months. The success of the monthly meetings including the big London to Brighton run will always go down in my life as something to be proud of. Also, over the last 17 months C5alive have raised alot of money for charity, with £300 being raised on the first ever meeting, a further £1200 raised on the big L2B run, and also I have always made a point of dontaing a percentage of all profits over the last year - so in total I think C5alive has raised over £3,000 for charity. C5alive have also been in Evo magazine, many newspapers and local radio stations and even had a mention on Channel 4 which I hope has gone a fair way to making the C5 "known to the world" again !
However, I am not leaving the C5 scene.
I will still be at all the meetings and enjoying it just as much.
Also, as Karl and I discussed, I will still be offering a C5 repair and restoration service ( solely via C5alive ) and I will still also be supplying C5alive with quality used C5's for sale. I will also still be hiring out my C5's for events, again, solely via C5alive.
I am really going to miss being Mr. C5alive man as I love it so much, so its great that I will still be getting involved with C5's in the repair and servicing, supplying and hiring side of things.
I know you will all welcome Karl to the helm. The official hand over date is next saturday. Any orders placed before that date, as well as any orders still outstanding, will be sorted out before this date. After that date, please be aware that there may be a very slight delay in sending out orders while we go through the change over details.
So lets all here you shout your votes of confidence for Karl, we all know he is going to do a superb job, so lets all tell him so as I know how nerving it is when taking over - I have been there myself !!
Mark
Soon to be ex-C5alive ( sniff sniff ) "
A new chapter of my life seems to have begun....
" It gives me great pleasure to inform you all that C5alive now has a new owner !!
I am 100% sure everyone will be chuffed to hear that Karl ( booboo ) will become the new owner as of a week on saturday after agreeing to buy the business for a cheap price of £2.6 million ( hey ! what can I say, he obviously knows its worth £4 million !!! )
As much as I am extremely gutted and sad that I am having to sell C5alive due to my poor health, I cant think of anyone in the world who would be as perfect for the helm of C5alive than Karl. He has the right enthusiam and attitude to take the business to new heights and I know it will continue in the true spirit of what C5alive is all about.
I have really really enjoyed running the business over the last 17 months. The success of the monthly meetings including the big London to Brighton run will always go down in my life as something to be proud of. Also, over the last 17 months C5alive have raised alot of money for charity, with £300 being raised on the first ever meeting, a further £1200 raised on the big L2B run, and also I have always made a point of dontaing a percentage of all profits over the last year - so in total I think C5alive has raised over £3,000 for charity. C5alive have also been in Evo magazine, many newspapers and local radio stations and even had a mention on Channel 4 which I hope has gone a fair way to making the C5 "known to the world" again !
However, I am not leaving the C5 scene.
I will still be at all the meetings and enjoying it just as much.
Also, as Karl and I discussed, I will still be offering a C5 repair and restoration service ( solely via C5alive ) and I will still also be supplying C5alive with quality used C5's for sale. I will also still be hiring out my C5's for events, again, solely via C5alive.
I am really going to miss being Mr. C5alive man as I love it so much, so its great that I will still be getting involved with C5's in the repair and servicing, supplying and hiring side of things.
I know you will all welcome Karl to the helm. The official hand over date is next saturday. Any orders placed before that date, as well as any orders still outstanding, will be sorted out before this date. After that date, please be aware that there may be a very slight delay in sending out orders while we go through the change over details.
So lets all here you shout your votes of confidence for Karl, we all know he is going to do a superb job, so lets all tell him so as I know how nerving it is when taking over - I have been there myself !!
Mark
Soon to be ex-C5alive ( sniff sniff ) "
A new chapter of my life seems to have begun....