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Barry Lichter

230 TAB staff given marching orders - leaders still there

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6 hours ago, scooby3051 said:

As Barry says...easy to get rid of the small people..but the ones at the top caused the shit to start with...none of them get the chop first round what a big darken waste of time.

Cutbacks across all areas at TAB (From racing news.)

 The Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) confirmed on Tuesday changes it was taking in response to the impact of COVID-19, including a reduction of 230 roles, including 150 permanent staff, across all areas of the TAB.

 The decision follows consultation with staff on a range of proposed changes aimed at ensuring the business was sustainable for the future and best placed to meet the needs of New Zealand racing and sport. 

 The changes, which impact 30 percent of all roles, are expected to deliver savings of more than $11 million per annum in addition to further operational cost savings throughout the business. 

 RITA Executive Chair, Dean McKenzie said the decision was very difficult but the organisation was left with no alternative with TAB monthly revenue almost 50 percent below forecast and customer numbers down more than 35 percent.

 “There are incredibly talented, experienced and committed people at the TAB who have delivered so much to our customers and the wider racing industry over many years. We will be very sorry to see them go,” McKenzie said.

 “We have had to make some tough decisions as we focus on the essential parts of our business that generate the funding required to keep the racing industry and many National Sporting Organisations running.”

 Services impacted by the changes include:

 ·      not resuming Trackside Radio programming following its suspension after the cancellation of all domestic racing in March

 ·      no longer offering the Phonebet betting service (Touchtone remains)

 ·      moving away from providing manual, on-course, betting facilities and increasing the number of Self Service Terminals from the current level of 55 percent of all race meetings and increasing customer education of TAB’s online platforms

 ·      changes to Trackside production and presentation with a reduced number of cameras and presenters continuing to operate from the studio and not be on course, with the exception of supporting marquee events 

 ·      Trackside television programmes will feature fewer presenters and with no dedicated racing shows, with the exception of a no-frills betting show, previewing the weekend’s racing

 ·      closure of four retail branches

 An independent review of the structure of the Executive Leadership team is underway with consultation on any proposed changes expected to start next week.

 “The implication of COVID-19 has extended beyond the immediate impact to the TAB, with racing and sport continuing to look unpredictable over the next year,” McKenzie said.

 “The reality is these changes will help the TAB to be a leaner, more efficient business and focused on driving our core wagering and gaming offering to our customers.” - RITA

Very short-sighted poor decision making, more added to the unemployed ranks.

It's time the executives got out into the real world at the coal face.

The reality is in Auckland everything is up and back to usual, except Government Departments.

 

Wake Up Wellington

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37 minutes ago, meomy said:

Mark Stafford was one of them, who are the others?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12334978

I wish the stupid fuckin media would stop blaming Covid-19 for racing's demise! :rcf-angry-2:

Do some investigative journalism for a change "you lazy halfwits"... and look into the real reason the industry's in this predicament! :rolleyes:
 

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2 hours ago, Crow said:

Alright having independent review but at what cost, more money going down the shute  and whos friend is doing it. They still keeping owners and trainers in the dark over next seasons stakes and where is the promoting of the industry gone or coming from, all negative to date. So while everyone in the industry is back getting horses ready for racing one can only conclude they haven't got their finger on the pulse and our industry will die a slow death.

Can't see the need for an independent review.  Why can't Dean McKenzie just do this as part of his job? 

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12 minutes ago, Insider said:

And they way that they are saying that Winston bailed out the Racing Industry says it all!
He bailed out a government run organisation called the TAB, nothing more, nothing less. 

Exactly.....all he's done is covered the Suits arse's temporarily.....nothing here to grow the industry.
In fact the Suit's have completely fucked the future with more of their poor mentality thinking and decisions  made since Covid-19 lockdown!
Media Radio/TV , Tote Operators , Commentators, Presenters etc etc....UNBELIEVABLE!

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2 hours ago, Baz (NZ) said:

I wish the stupid fuckin media would stop blaming Covid-19 for racing's demise! :rcf-angry-2:

Do some investigative journalism for a change "you lazy halfwits"... and look into the real reason the industry's in this predicament! :rolleyes:
 

Sometimes we must help the media do some investigative journalism.

Current editor of the Herald & his son both are keen sports people.

Have you reached out to them with relevant information?

Do bear in mind they are originally from Australia so need a helping hand to steer them ahead with names.

 

We have been reliably informed they are over the whole Covid b/s so how about we help them get the truth out there about who is responsible for this mess?

One thing that's certainly come to the fore out of Covid19 is the complete lack of common sense and awareness of Common Laws by Politicians and bureaucrats across the world and people who should know better who are CEOS/ business owners etc not exercising basic Duty of Care and applying pre existing laws before signing things off that has created this Complete Chaos.

 

Since when have we had no Head of State/ Sovereignty?

 

How many of you have got off your butts and written to the British High Commission? Governor General? Or Queen Elizabeth expressing your concerns?

Elizabeth as we all know is an avid racing fan who must also be mortified by what's unfolded over the last few months across the world and in Commonwealth countries.

 

Think about it guys, there's plenty of options.

Use the internet to network and reach out to others across the world and how they are trying to get their heads around it all.

We are all in the same boat.

 

 

 

 

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13 minutes ago, shaneMcAlister said:

Oncourse bookies are dying world wide.  Less and less in UK, Ireland and Australia.  With betfair you can choose who you lay, not let the customer choose.

Old school bookmakers are also getting older... Not so many younger ones coming through the ranks.

What NZ call bookmakers are not really bookmakers at all.

 

bring back the days of decent dividends like in the 1980's.

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1 hour ago, Insider said:

And they way that they are saying that Winston bailed out the Racing Industry says it all!
He bailed out a government run organisation called the TAB, nothing more, nothing less. 

The blame for that lies with that animal activist dude who has it in for racing who isn't worth taking a scrap of notice of as he started that damaging "RUMOR"

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3 hours ago, mikenz said:

The whole nz media is fucked

Mediaworks went downhill with Clark Gayford & his cronies due to his ties to Ardern.

Owners of Mediaworks should have dealt to that as have legal obligations to provide balanced journalism, Kindy & Facebook stories are not investigative journalism.

 

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4 minutes ago, Stables said:

As the hour gets later your posts get more and more ludicrous, have another drink Meomy

Hahah, just had a delicious hot cup of milk, best drink in the world all New Zealand people should drink before bed to keep our countries economy operating.

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Can’t help thinking Deano should have moved quicker with what he had to work with.

Outsourcing to Australia would have been the best option 12-18 months ago, when TAB NZ may have actually been worth something, and we could have been treated just like another state, with a guaranteed income stream for stakes distribution.

Hindsight is a great thing, but seemed a little obvious for a long time.

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The down sizing continues , this just goes to show how bad things really are , I fear for stakes in the new season .

Mark Stafford gone , 

Mark Stafford, the long-time face of the TAB, has revealed that he was recently made redundant by the sports betting agency.

The news comes after the TAB confirmed it will cut 230 jobs due to the Covid-19 downturn, which has seen revenue plummet with most live sports and racing cancelled over the last few months.

Stafford, who was the TAB's media manager and had also worked with Sky TV, released a video on Twitter announcing that he was made redundant.

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24 minutes ago, tripple alliance said:

The down sizing continues , this just goes to show how bad things really are , I fear for stakes in the new season .

Mark Stafford gone , 

Mark Stafford, the long-time face of the TAB, has revealed that he was recently made redundant by the sports betting agency.

The news comes after the TAB confirmed it will cut 230 jobs due to the Covid-19 downturn, which has seen revenue plummet with most live sports and racing cancelled over the last few months.

Stafford, who was the TAB's media manager and had also worked with Sky TV, released a video on Twitter announcing that he was made redundant.

Be interesting to see what the redundancy package was. Mark had been there over 20 years. 

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All this is cost cutting, I would be interested to see revenue growing strategies too.

I personally think it will be hard to grow revenue with less presenters, radio etc.  Happy to be proved wrong.

I think there is very little for our domestic market to get excited about.  Scary.

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8 minutes ago, shaneMcAlister said:

All this is cost cutting, I would be interested to see revenue growing strategies too.

I personally think it will be hard to grow revenue with less presenters, radio etc.  Happy to be proved wrong.

I think there is very little for our domestic market to get excited about.  Scary.

Agree.

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19 hours ago, Stables said:

I am sure that some of the big wigs will be gone once the review is completed

Henry and Woodham at least.  Ex-NZ Post mates of John Allen and utterly unaccountable for the wasteful "investment" of the past five years.  They have collectively destroyed the balance sheet on a prayer of windfall gains.  Dreamers and charlatans.

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13 minutes ago, shaneMcAlister said:

All this is cost cutting, I would be interested to see revenue growing strategies too.

I personally think it will be hard to grow revenue with less presenters, radio etc.  Happy to be proved wrong.

I think there is very little for our domestic market to get excited about.  Scary.

Revenue growing strategies will be throwing more bonus bets around and giving away $20 if you open a new account in the hope it attracts new customers, plus tightening the already insane restrictions to squeeze another half a percent profit from the dwindling turnover while at the same time sucking the remaining life out of the punters that prop the industry up in the first place.

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56 minutes ago, shaneMcAlister said:

All this is cost cutting, I would be interested to see revenue growing strategies too.

I personally think it will be hard to grow revenue with less presenters, radio etc.  Happy to be proved wrong.

I think there is very little for our domestic market to get excited about.  Scary.

Don’t agree. Presenters here add very little to increasing revenue.....credibility is the key.

The Australians have people who know the industry, the horses, the form...compare Duff, Lizzy Jelfs, the Get On crew ( Hutch and Marshall particularly)and others with what we have...no contest. When Lizzy picks one out in the yard the betting on that horse goes up immediately...that’s value.

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15 minutes ago, Ohokaman said:

Don’t agree. Presenters here add very little to increasing revenue.....credibility is the key.

The Australians have people who know the industry, the horses, the form...compare Duff, Lizzy Jelfs, the Get On crew ( Hutch and Marshall particularly)and others with what we have...no contest. When Lizzy picks one out in the yard the betting on that horse goes up immediately...that’s value.

Yeh but when our guys pick one you can leave it out of your combinations so that is value too!

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