The red door of “FEXCO Stockbroking Ltd” on 74 South Mall. Cork City, Ireland has been closed every time I have passed since 1st January 2009. I cannot comment on the significane of this, perhaps it is to reduce drafts, but it does call forth thoughts of FEXCO. Who or what is FEXCO?
FEXCO - which capitalises it’s name for stylistic reasons - is a “services company” headquartered in Kerry. It was established in in 1981 and has 930 employees in Ireland. In 2007 FEXCO recorded revenues of €205m and operating profits on ongoing activities of €19.6m.
It is a company that has been compared to Quinn - both being founded outside Dublin - but FEXCO seems to have a teflon coating. Even its imvolvement with Western Union (a brandname associated with many scams throughtno fault of its own) has not tarnished its image.
Published March 12th, 2006
in western union, telegram and uncategorized.
Western Union sent its final telegram message last on Friday, February 3, 2006, ending 145 years of history.
The company said the last ten telegrams included birthday wishes, death condolences and the notification of an emergency. They also included messages from several people simply trying to be the last telegram sender.
Other companies still offer telegrams in a few countries such as TeliaSonera (SE)
The pricelist is no longer on the westernunion.com site, but I remember looking at it a few years ago and it while it was comparable to a 24hour courier it would have been much cheaper to send a fax or of course an email.
The company, now Western Union “Holdings” was once known as Western Union “Telegraph Company”. One wonders when BP will sell their last drop of petroleum, as they recently changed their tagline from “British” Petroleum to “Beyond” Petroleum. Continue reading ‘The last telegram’
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