Birmingham Mail - Tag - ldv

LDV workers lose out on £2,800 payments

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:05:00 GMT

HUNDREDS of ex-LDV workers owed up to £2,800 each after a union tribunal victory over arrears due following the firm’s £75 million collapse have been told they won’t receive a penny.

Birmingham should get rail yard

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT

MANUFACTURING expertise means that Birmingham is the obvious location for a high-speed rail maintenance depot, city council leader Mike Whitby has claimed.

Russian tycoon blasts UK Government over LDV collapse

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:00:00 GMT

RUSSIAN billionaire Oleg Deripaska has accused the UK Government of a “brutal desire to kill” LDV in an outspoken attack over the collapse of the Birmingham van maker.

£200m rail depot site raises hopes for ex LDV and Alstom workers

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:59:00 GMT

MORE than 2,000 former LDV and Alstom workers forced onto the dole queues following the closure of their factories could be thrown a new jobs lifeline by a £200 million scheme.

LDV creditors report revealed

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

HUNDREDS of creditors of failed Birmingham van-maker LDV will share a maximum of just £600,000 in compensation payouts – from a total debt mountain of £75 million.

Creditors and Eco Concept in tussle over LDV tools

Birmingham Mail — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

EFFORTS by the new owner of the assets of collapsed van company LDV to collect tools from former suppliers have been called “the funniest thing since Morecambe and Wise”.

LDV creditors 'to get nothing'

Birmingham Mail — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

HUNDREDS of creditors of van-maker LDV are set to receive “little or nothing” following its £75 million crash – with paltry dividends of less than 1p in the pound, it emerged today.

Hodge Hill MP Liam Byrne admits his six-month battle to save LDV had failed

Birmingham Mail — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

BIRMINGHAM MP Liam Byrne admitted his six-month battle to save LDV had failed – and described the business’s Chinese buyers as “asset-strippers”.

Thousands of jobs at risk in East Birmingham after end of LDV

Birmingham Mail — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:44:00 GMT

CITY MP Liam Byrne has warned that east Birmingham urgently needs investment, following the announcement that vanmaker LDV is to shift assets overseas.

LDV closure: Council reacts to end of production

Birmingham Mail — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Birmingham City Council has expressed disappointment over the news that van production at LDV will not be resuming after the company is sold to a Chinese vehicle engineering firm.