The Team's Board Report - Mainfreight

Incidentally at this meeting, Bruce
gave the team what some of us
thought was one of the most
powerful and entertaining talks
we have ever seen - all done at
short notice using Don’s overhead
presentation, as Don could not
attend at the last minute.
Tamara deserve special mention for their
generosity.
We know Andrew and his family are totally
overwhelmed and humbled with the generosity
shown by the team and it is times like these that
we all appreciate what a unique company we
really are involved with.
Branch of the Year
We had a brilliant Branch of the Year awards
ceremony as part of our combined annual
Branch Managers meeting in the impressive
south coast region of New South Wales.
Bruce put the first slide up which
contained six key points that he duly spent half
an hour running through; ad libbing brilliantly on
some areas where he was not quite sure what
Don was getting at. He then decided to go to
the second slide only to realise the slide he had
just run through was the agenda slide and there
were another ten slides following that had all
the detail that Bruce had been looking for…
We were privileged to have our founder
and Chairman Bruce on hand to make the
announcement that Mainfreight Distribution
Sydney was this year’s winner of the important
Branch of the Year award. In second place
was Mainfreight International Perth with
Mainfreight Distribution Melbourne an unlucky
third.
Congratulations to Mike Reid and the Sydney
team who have done an outstanding job over
the last year to really build Sydney into a
flagship operation that we are all very proud
of.
On seeing the spontaneous unbridled pride
and emotion that Mike showed as he accepted
the Captains bat, it is easy to see why the
Sydney team have done so well.
To the other branches, really make the effort
to improve in the areas that may have let you
down as winning this award and holding the
title of Branch of the Year is really something to
aspire to.