TechGuy wrote:
I believe he bought A2B Taxis in Solihull (500+ drivers) last year, he has big plans to improve services to drivers, improve the amount of work, improve customer experience, and profitability.
Like to know how that can be achieved.
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| Author: | cardifflad [ Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Apparently Paul Ragan who a few years ago bought Dragon Taxis in Newport for £1.2m has bought their Cardiff namesake. As Dragon in Cardiff are the biggest firm in South Wales (rumoured to be 650/700 drivers) I'd say he paid a damn site more than £1.2m Nothing in the news about this current deal but here is something from when he purchased Dragon Newport... http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/8 ... b_company/ |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
cardifflad wrote: Apparently Paul Ragan who a few years ago bought Dragon Taxis in Newport for £1.2m has bought their Cardiff namesake. As Dragon in Cardiff are the biggest firm in South Wales (rumoured to be 650/700 drivers) I'd say he paid a damn site more than £1.2m Nothing in the news about this current deal but here is something from when he purchased Dragon Newport... http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/8 ... b_company/ Sounds like he's got plenty of scratcholia to buy Dragon of Cardiff. |
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| Author: | TechGuy [ Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
I believe he bought A2B Taxis in Solihull (500+ drivers) last year, he has big plans to improve services to drivers, improve the amount of work, improve customer experience, and profitability. I'm told he has plans to buy many more taxi companies across the UK. |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Mon Mar 23, 2015 7:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
TechGuy wrote: I believe he bought A2B Taxis in Solihull (500+ drivers) last year, he has big plans to improve services to drivers, improve the amount of work, improve customer experience, and profitability. Like to know how that can be achieved.
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| Author: | Cabby John 1 [ Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Quote: Apparently Paul Ragan who a few years ago bought Dragon Taxis in Newport for £1.2m has bought their Cardiff namesake. As Dragon in Cardiff are the biggest firm in South Wales (rumoured to be 650/700 drivers) I would hazard a guess that it is more likely to be 450/500 drivers and no word on the block as of yet...... Dragon selling. As ever everything hyped up....500 drivers working (I know dreamland) a 40 hour working week, getting two calls per hour and they would have to have 40,000 jobs a week going through their books Or if you like 5,714 jobs per day......no way in Cardiff. |
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| Author: | cardifflad [ Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Cabby John 1 wrote: Quote: Apparently Paul Ragan who a few years ago bought Dragon Taxis in Newport for £1.2m has bought their Cardiff namesake. As Dragon in Cardiff are the biggest firm in South Wales (rumoured to be 650/700 drivers) I would hazard a guess that it is more likely to be 450/500 drivers and no word on the block as of yet...... Dragon selling. As ever everything hyped up....500 drivers working (I know dreamland) a 40 hour working week, getting two calls per hour and they would have to have 40,000 jobs a week going through their books Or if you like 5,714 jobs per day......no way in Cardiff. Their website says they have OVER 500 vehicles .. http://dragontaxis.com/ They also say in the "about us" page they field 40,000 calls a week.. http://dragontaxis.com/about-us As for the takeover, it has happened it was finalised a few weeks ago and Dragon are now owned by Veezu. Drivers were informed officially on Friday. Interesting times ahead. |
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| Author: | Cabby John 1 [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Quote: They also say in the "about us" page they field 40,000 calls a week.. Can you see that in Cardiff for one company alone  Bearing in mind you have Capital and Premier also large companies I just cannot see it, as the place is not awash with money.
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| Author: | grandad [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Cabby John 1 wrote: Quote: They also say in the "about us" page they field 40,000 calls a week.. Can you see that in Cardiff for one company alone Bearing in mind you have Capital and Premier also large companies I just cannot see it, as the place is not awash with money.That is 4 calls a minute, every minute. |
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Cabby John 1 wrote: Quote: They also say in the "about us" page they field 40,000 calls a week.. Can you see that in Cardiff for one company alone Bearing in mind you have Capital and Premier also large companies I just cannot see it, as the place is not awash with money.Maybe they're cheap fares. |
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| Author: | Cabby John 1 [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 4:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
toots wrote: Cabby John 1 wrote: Quote: They also say in the "about us" page they field 40,000 calls a week.. Can you see that in Cardiff for one company alone Bearing in mind you have Capital and Premier also large companies I just cannot see it, as the place is not awash with money.Maybe they're cheap fares. Nope.......we are still running off a 2011 tariff 
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 7:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Cabby John 1 wrote: Nope.......we are still running off a 2011 tariff Does that not make it cheap? |
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| Author: | Cabby John 1 [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 7:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
toots wrote: Cabby John 1 wrote: Nope.......we are still running off a 2011 tariff Does that not make it cheap? Tbh I think ( I could stand corrected) that "Premier" followed by "Dragon" are the dearest in Cardiff. The Hackneys are governed by the Council/L.A. that is a lower tariff than the two companies mentioned. |
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Cabby John 1 wrote: toots wrote: Cabby John 1 wrote: Nope.......we are still running off a 2011 tariff Does that not make it cheap? Tbh I think ( I could stand corrected) that "Premier" followed by "Dragon" are the dearest in Cardiff. The Hackneys are governed by the Council/L.A. that is a lower tariff than the two companies mentioned. So taxis are cheaper than ph in Cardiff? |
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| Author: | Cabby John 1 [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
[/quote] So taxis are cheaper than ph in Cardiff?[/quote] Yes. |
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| Author: | toots [ Tue Mar 24, 2015 8:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Dragon Taxis Cardiff taken over??? |
Cabby John 1 wrote: So taxis are cheaper than ph in Cardiff?[/quote] Yes.[/quote] Are they purpose built or saloon taxis? |
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