Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 43
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2 Q. But they are included as part of the advertising spend?
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: (To the witness): The 46m or 47m which you
5 have just mentioned, is that the equivalent in 1993 of the
6 41m there, or the 41 plus the 5m, or the 41 plus the 5m
7 plus the 2m?
8 A. When I say "advertising", as I did, 5 per cent of our
9 sales goes to the co-op, the advertising co-op. Those
10 monies are spent on making commercials.
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12 Q. I think I misunderstood "General Facts". The 41m there
13 includes the 5m spent on local store marketing and 2m on
14 national and community projects; does it?
15 A. That is how I read it.
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17 Q. And the 46m or 47m you have given me?
18 A. It will include ----.
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20 Q. For this year is the equivalent of the 41m there or not?
21 A. It misses the local store marketing piece; it has got
22 everything else. The 5m local store marketing is another
23 piece.
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25 MS. STEEL: So it will be?
26 A. When I add in.
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28 Q. 51m or 52m?
29 A. Excuse me?
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31 Q. The total spend this year will be 51m or 52m?
32 A. It might be 53m or 54m.
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, Because the local store may have gone up
35 as well?
36 A. May have gone up a bit.
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38 MS. STEEL: Again that would include sponsorship and such like?
39 A. It includes some sponsorship. It does not include
40 everything, but it is probably 98 per cent of it.
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42 Q. Right. Seeing as we are on the same page, the note at the
43 bottom says:
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45 "UK system wide sales in 1993 were 650,851,000, running an
46 operating profit of £75.4m and that profit after tax for
47 the year end 31st December 1993 was £20,046,000."
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I just come back to something you said
50 this morning about return on investors' money? As
51 I understand it, what you are saying is it is not just a
52 question of those who are running the Company deciding that
53 they will pay more to employees, and have a pre-tax and
54 post-tax profit which is less, because if the Company is
55 going to continue at all, it needs people to own its
56 shares?
57 A. That is correct, sir.
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59 Q. If they no longer find that the Company is giving them a
60 sufficient return on their money, we talk about the
