Executive Shaving Summer Sale

[PeteyB]

A shame they've gone bust.

Good creams and customer service.

I was appalled by their blade prices though which is what I buy most regularly!

 

[The Geordie Shaver]

Whilst any closure of a shaving supplies entity is a loss , I have to say that I stopped using ES some time ago , I found the prices excessive.
Having said that the excessive prices don’t seem to have served them well .

 

[Rohleder]

Whilst any closure of a shaving supplies entity is a loss , I have to say that I stopped using ES some time ago , I found the prices excessive.
Having said that the excessive prices don’t seem to have served them well .

Likewise, I always called them Harrods of shaving.

I did buy my first decent brush there, a Simpsons Duke 3 back in 2016... At the time the prospect of spending £90 on a shaving brush took some self convincing but I did it! A shame they ended up limiting their own sales by stopping the sale of natural hair brushes.

 

[Philtrum]

Fair play to whoever got a Konsul or an Ambassador for a steal. I guess it at least saved me from hammering the credit card today! (though feeling a bit gutted to miss out….)

I bought a Konsul for a 30% discount, which has been delivered and so I’m chuffed.

 

[Mike Smart]

I am not on FB, but I agree with that post. ESC have been abysmal and completely deceitful. What was Brian Mulreany position was he actually retired or still on the payroll. My sympathies are with the staff bulleted without notice, disgraceful.

Brian sold the company to the staff

 

[Roy]

I wonder if their decision not to sell badger brushes was the start of their down fall? I know why they did it, but custome4s like a choice.
There's a saying you see quite often.....go woke, go broke. Just a thought.

 

[Driftwood]

Brian sold the company to the staff

Then why is he informing them of the closure and handling all final orders?

 

[Mike Smart]

Then why is he informing them of the closure and handling all final orders?

You’ll need to ask him that question

 

[NatJag]

Brian sold the company to the staff

The company transferred to an Employee Ownership Trust June 22. Someone still needed overall say, which it seems was still Brian.

Looking on companies house, Brian and his wife were still listed on the business May 24. He was listed as director on the accounts filed Sept 23 for year ending March 23.

 

[OrangeSport]

What a shame. I liked ES and their points system was a good incentive to keep using them.

 

[globalm]

Good discussion gents but please avoid imputations of impropriety as I'm not set up to field libel writs.

Ta!

 

[Gem]

Purchased gravitas edp and a cake of mwf on Tuesday 27 August, received it on Friday 30th for £44 including delivery, a cracking buy imho
Used them many times previously without any problems, sorry to see them go

 

[Shaun48]

I wonder if their decision not to sell badger brushes was the start of their down fall? I know why they did it, but custome4s like a choice.
There's a saying you see quite often.....go woke, go broke. Just a thought.

All those companies that have gone broke after going woke such as, um, nobody. If their business was reliant on the sale of brushes and not stocking badger brushes led to their collapse, then it’d be an unsustainable business model anyway.

 

[NatJag]

All those companies that have gone broke after going woke such as, um, nobody. If their business was reliant on the sale of brushes and not stocking badger brushes led to their collapse, then it’d be an unsustainable business model anyway.

Victoria Secrets went broke in the UK, particularly when the featured a plus sized transgender model on their advertising.
Gillettes income reportedly dropped when they tried to align with #metoo

 

[wayne_m]

Personally I can't see selling the odd Badger or Pig Hair brush for around a £10-15 profit at best keeping a shaving retailer going. If you actually look at forums a lot of us are Shaving Snobs, myself included. As such we don't tend to buy Bog standard shaving gear like Muhle, EJ etc. The mass manufactured pot metal stuff.
We buy our Razors direct from the Manufacturer, Soaps and Brushes too. I've never owned any of that kind of stuff they sold since my first set up. I don't even want to buy Blades from places like that as when Ebay sold blades they were 50% cheaper.
Nah, keeping a shaving company going can't be an easy thing to do and I doubt if they did sell natural hair brushes would have kept their head above water. There aren't that many of us using and buying traditional shaving gear to support places like this for long, In my relatively short time using wet shaving gear I've seen more companies go bust than be successful.