Comdisco UK Ltd duly announced that it has bought – on undisclosed terms – the UK lease portfolio of Adia SA’s Meridian Computers Ltd, and the rest of the European business has already been liquidated: Comdisco says it will honour all existing lease agreements and will offer its master rental agreement to those that want to upgrade; word is that there were two other bidders for the base, one the UK end of El Camino Resources Inc; about 17 people lost their jobs in the closure; Comdisco has also integrated Comdisco Disaster Recovery Services with Comdisco Europe, changing the names of Failsafe ROC Ltd here and Agerus International SA in France to Comdisco Disaster Recovery Sevices Europe; in the US, Meridian continues trading, and may have to run its own operations down since its leases could prove too complex to be of interest to competitors.
