Quinn Glass Act Fraudulently Against Biggest Customer “DIAGEO”

We brought you important news some weeks ago how a concerned employee wrote a letter to Paul O'Brien, CEO of Quinn Group about the danger to employees at Quinn Cement and other things happening at Quinn Group.  Paul responded to a journalist in the Fermanagh Herald with only a partial answer to one question asked “saying that no one at risk as it was just a shed which no one goes into”. (Still not fixed)

Let’s see how Paul responds to this allegation and the general public deserve an answer.

This a very serious issue which I will now relate and the general public can be the judge?

Quinn Glass manufacture container glass for large bottling companies such as Diageo. They get no bigger than Diageo which are probably the largest drinks company in the world and which Quinn Glass rely heavily on for orders to keep  a large workforce in employment. With this in mind would you try cut off the hand that feeds you? It looks like the present management are doing just that.

Quinn Glass containers are manufactured using a batch system which can be anything from 10 thousand bottles up to millions of bottles. Manufacturing companies always like to have long production runs as it cuts down on job change. Starting a new production line is very time consuming and expensive which presently is causing severe problems for Quinn Glass.

All batch jobs have works orders and each bottle is laser marked for identity and should anything go wrong it can be easily traced back through the works order number. If something is found to be faulty the complete batch is recalled. One such batch order job was processed and despatched to Diageo. This batch took months to complete. It's every company’s worst nightmare when the customer finds a fault in a product and they return it to the manufacturing plant. It can easily break a company.

We all can remember the horse meat scandal. All products were recalled and destroyed.

As the bottles were for a drink product for public consumption, companies like Diageo take no chances when something is not correct and returned the full batch to Derrylin. Quinn Glass was then supposed to destroy and recycle this returned glass.

They would have to do a new production run to replace what was returned.

Well that is the way it is supposed to happen but Quinn Glass took a different route.

Adrian Curry (former Quinn Glass Director under Sean Quinn) but who was demoted to senior management by Paul O'Brien went to see Diageo on a business meeting looking to get more sales and better prices. When he entered the business meeting and after the normal good mornings etc., he was presented with a letter from a member of staff in Quinn Glass written to Diageo. This staff member must have being disgusted at what Quinn Glass had fraudulently done and wrote to Diageo and told them the full story about what happened. Diageo informed Mr Curry this would be the first item on the agenda for urgent discussion.

You can only image the look on Adrian’s face to be found out. Quinn Glass had committed a fraudulent act and instead of destroying the faulty batch they just removed the wrapping from the pallets and put new labels on the goods and shipped them back to Diageo a second time well known what they were doing was illegal and a danger to the Health and Safety of the general public.

Well Diageo after receiving the letter returned the second batch and this cost the company millions and put at risk all future business dealings with Diageo. We have to wait and see what Diageo will do next.

Mr Curry highly embarrassed hops on a plane right after the meeting back to Derrylin, County Fermanagh for an urgent meeting with Paul O'Brien and other senior management and spent 2 days in Derrylin trying to find out who wrote the letter.

At a employees general meeting a few days later Mr Paul O’Brien turns up spitting fire and brimstone about how some person had embarrassed Adrian Curry and put the company at risk with writing such a letter. Instead of being apologetic he was determined to weed them out whoever wrote this letter. (Another witch hunt on-going)

Now judge for yourselves what type of people you are dealing with in the present Quinn Group Management and bear in mind your own Health and Safety.

Another of Quinn Group companies manufacture a product that every household in the country use "Butter Tubs" Are any shortcuts happening there?

Can we trust Paul O'Brien and his management to safeguard our Health and Safety after what happened at Quinn Glass and Quinn Cement?

Why is Paul O'Brien still allowed to be CEO of a company where he has no respect for Health and Safety in the work place or for the containers he produces which we eat and drink from supplied by Quinn Group Manufacturing?