The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

23
Owens Transport New Zealand – Bryan Curtis
We finished the 2006/07 financial year on par
with last year, a reasonable performance given
the difficulties we
faced in the last four months of the year.
The current year is one of challenges for us,
the largest of those is the need to dramatically
increase our sales. Our sales teams are
concentrating all their efforts on targeting
and gaining new business which is starting to
produce exciting results.
In recent months we have looked at
opportunities outside of the normal freight
that we handle, these include bulk liquid, bulk
fertiliser, animal feed in bulk bags and industrial
waste cartage – with a varying degree of
success. We have, historically, shied away from
these opportunities and concentrated on our
core LCL business. This untapped potential
is now part of the service that we can offer
existing and new customers and is in line with
our thinking that we have not reached our peak
in New Zealand.
At the annual Branch Managers meeting held
in March several awards are made recognising
the superior performance of Branches and for
individual excellence in the form of “The Pickle”
award. This year the Pickle was awarded to Bob
Bain of Owens Auckland who demonstrated his
commitment by trying to stop flooding at the
old Owens depot at Felix Street depot.
The attached photo of Bob sums up his never say die attitude.