Day 248 - 13 May 96 - Page 23
1 again. They all differ, depending on their purpose.
2
3 Q. You do not know how many nutrition leaflets you printed?
4 A. No, not off the top of my head.
5
6 Q. Not even roughly?
7 A. No.
8
9 Q. Has that leaflet been reprinted, the leaflet that the
10 300,000 copies were originally produced?
11 A. I do not think so.
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13 Q. Right. In tab 25 there is another memo from Edi Bensilum
14 from the communications department to Gavin Griffith; do
15 you know who he is?
16 A. Yes.
17
18 Q. Who is he?
19 A. Works in the informations services department.
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21 Q. At McDonald's Head Office?
22 A. Yes.
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24 Q. Right. This is dated 9th June 1994. "Please can you
25 arrange for the following message to go down the Hunter
26 ASAP?" The Hunter is the system that you use to
27 communicate with all the stores round the country is it
28 not?
29 A. Well, it does much more than that. It is a time
30 recorder payroll system, and we have the facility to send
31 messages back and forth on it too.
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33 Q. Right. It carries on, "London Greenpeace customer
34 hand-out. Despite several memos I understand that a number
35 of restaurants are still displaying this hand-out in their
36 did-you-know boards. This meant that many of your
37 customers who previously knew nothing about the court case
38 are now replying to ask me for further information. This
39 was not the purpose of producing the hand-out."
40 A. That is exactly right. This was not the intention of
41 making the hand-out. We did not want to inform the world,
42 we did not intend to make this a big media issue in
43 people's minds. We wanted to speak directly to individuals
44 who had a specific question.
45
46 Q. You were basically concerned that people would find out
47 about the case, and you had something to hide and did not
48 want them to?
49 A. Ms. Steel, I have nothing to hide. That is why I am
50 here.
51
52 Q. You are ashamed of this case?
53 A. No. I wish it had not have gone on for so long, for
54 sure, but I am not ashamed of it.
55
56 Q. Incidentally, because it is raised by you as one of the
57 reasons for carrying on putting out information, where it
58 says "This means that many of your customers who previously
59 knew nothing about the court case are now writing to ask me
60 for further information", you are not in a position say
