The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight
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Sydney Super Site taking shape<br />
Other highlights for the year have been:-<br />
• <strong>The</strong> success of our “sales cadet” programme<br />
which has seen the introduction of some<br />
outstanding young people into our business<br />
across Australia who have a strong desire to<br />
develop a career in sales with us.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> opening of our new Owens Transport<br />
branch in Melbourne (brilliantly run by Jade<br />
Carlson) to compete hard in the local wharf<br />
cartage market and to service the needs of<br />
our international business.<br />
Special Company…<br />
We recently had some particularly devastating<br />
floods in the Newcastle region along the Hunter<br />
River. Unfortunately, Andrew Smith, one of our<br />
valuable Newcastle team, came home from<br />
work to not only find three feet of water right<br />
through his house but that the family’s only car<br />
was completely destroyed along with a lot of<br />
irreplaceable family possessions.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> continued improvement in the<br />
operational interaction between our various<br />
brands in relation to supply chain selling<br />
and the success of our “Big M” meetings<br />
and cross brand training and induction<br />
programmes run by Marty Devereux and the<br />
training team.<br />
• Our continued involvement in the Books in<br />
Homes programme.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> new and improved depots we have<br />
moved into in Newcastle, Canberra and<br />
Townsville along with the improvements we<br />
have made to our Brisbane and Melbourne<br />
depots.<br />
• Making the decision to introduce the<br />
Chemcouriers brand into the Australian<br />
market place over the coming year.<br />
• <strong>The</strong> good work that the Owens Transport<br />
team have done to better highlight the brand<br />
through depot and team presentation and<br />
the increasing number of Owens vehicles<br />
and trailers we are seeing on the roads in<br />
Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.<br />
• Work starting on our massive new Sydney<br />
super site that we will occupy from mid-<br />
January 2008.<br />
Although it is obviously a devastating time for<br />
the Smith family, one positive to come out of<br />
this situation has been to see how well the<br />
<strong>Mainfreight</strong> family, right around Australia, have<br />
come together to provide some assistance. This<br />
will hopefully go a little way to helping Andrew<br />
and his family, Rebecca, Skye, Mckayla and<br />
Jarred, through this period.<br />
So many of the team have helped out that we<br />
probably should not individualise but Scott<br />
Wade (Ballarat branch manager) and his wife