Famly firm closes after ...

• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  29 October 2015     20:04287571
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  epps the builders have shut doors after 174 years trading...
  
  http://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/family-firm-goes-bust-after-45528/
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  29 October 2015     20:19287572
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  Very sad news but the article doesn't mention the recent design award for the architects of the wing at Capel. Epps actually built it.
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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  29 October 2015     20:24287573
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  I know of a few builders who have been starting up their own company because of the upturn in the industry seems odd for reputable firm to be closing, mismanagement perhaps.
  Arte et Marte
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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  29 October 2015     21:02287575
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  strange affair all round.
• Guest 745

  • Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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  29 October 2015     22:35287576
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  Undercutting and a Race to the bottom , builders from EU county's using currency difference in the EU to gain the advantage .