Bankrupt U.S. auto interiors supplier Collins & Aikman Corp. which plans to sell off its business units, said on Wednesday that Frank Macher has resigned as president and chief executive officer.
Bet he got a huge compensation for quitting.
I use to work at Collins and Aikman, from 2000-2003, and got caught up in the big lay-off in 2003. Things were bad at the time I involuntarily quit. We had to bring our own pens in, they would only buy pencils and they limit how much paper we could buy each month.
How did C&A get into such a spot?
2 things, the Board of Directors and under bidding to get programs.
The B of D were shady, buying businesses that belonged to themselves for outragous sums and then liquidating them only months after C&A bought them.
The also under bid to get programs. One of the programs I was working on at C&A, the Jeep Liberty front & rear fascia, we were bascially attaching a $20 bill to each fascia. That is how much they underbid to get the program thinking that they could get Chrysler to raise their prices after the program launched.
Collins & Aikman announced in November that it would sell its operations in whole or in parts rather than emerge from bankruptcy. It filed for court protection from creditors in May 2005.
I still have plenty of friends that are working for C&A, although the plant I was working at was closed down last year.
C&A is in bad shape and may not last long enough to be picked apart and sold.
This is what can happen to a company when the executives don't have the companies best interest in their sites.