Highwood alfa closing down
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Well that's not awesome. I had heard that they were having supply issues, but I didn't know they closed down. Did the email say that explicitly?
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Highwood Alfa
Anybody know if Highwood is still in business? I believe the business was sold a while back and Chris Sweetapple is not with it anymore. Several emails over several months and nothing. Karen Macgowan
www.alfabb.com
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Recall plus 15 years ago making a phone enquiry with Highwood Alfa talking to Chris the owner for a mirror to suit my then GT1600Junior, supplied at one third of price of local supplier and on my door step within 3 business days.
A great shame if business closure not managed to reflect the years of good service.
A great shame if business closure not managed to reflect the years of good service.
Chris sold it some time ago.
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That's a shame. It would be great if they can straighten things out and be back to 100% in the future. They always had parts we can't find new on this side of the Atlantic.
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He's retired, that's why he sold it.
It was a bit sad to see this all fall apart, especially for Chris after spending so many years building up an excellent business with a great reputation then watch it wither away in a year or less.
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I don't think it can necessarily be described as withered away, Chris had a good number of regular clients. So he would likely have sold the business, stock and goodwill at the point he wanted to exit the business to hopefully fund a long and happy retirement. For small business owners an exit strategy is often quite difficult so well done to him for achieving that. Businesss like that often have a lot of stock assets so hopefully he exchanged a big pile of AR parts for a smaller pile of cash.
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