The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

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