Day 079 - 27 Jan 95 - Page 23
1 immediately before 9A.
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3 MR. MORRIS: Have you visited Jarrets regularly?
4 A. Yes.
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6 Q. How many times, off the top of your head?
7 A. Six or eight times.
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9 Q. When was the last time you visited?
10 A. A week ago.
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12 Q. You have a good relationship, do you, with your suppliers?
13 A. Yes.
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15 Q. How long have Jarrets been a supplier?
16 A. Since about 1984.
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18 Q. You know Mr. Jarret personally?
19 A. I know Mr. Bob Jarret, yes. I have met him.
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21 Q. You have very detailed specifications for your suppliers.
22 Do you feel that because of your close relationship with
23 your suppliers that the specifications are really mere
24 guidelines rather than actual specifications?
25 A. No.
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27 Q. So they have to take them seriously, do they?
28 A. Very.
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30 Q. Why do they have to take them seriously, your
31 specifications?
32 A. Because their meat is inspected when it arrives at
33 Milton Keynes or Scunthorpe and because they are inspected
34 by members of my staff who use the specification as their
35 working tool.
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37 Q. What, all the specifications?
38 A. All the meat specifications.
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40 Q. The ones at the back of your statement: "Specification for
41 chilled, frozen boneless beef forequarter and flank for
42 beef patty production", which you refer to -----
43 A. Are you looking at the meat buying specification or are
44 you looking at the production specification?
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46 Q. I do not know.
47 A. Well, if you tell me the number, I will look at it and
48 see.
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50 Q. "Raw material specification" dated October 1991.
51 A. Is it in this file?
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53 Q. It was at the back of your statement.
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55 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, there is a copy at page 43 of tab 9. It
56 starts at page 43; it may not be, it may be 214?
57 A. This one is not numbered, but I think you are looking
58 at the raw material specification?
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60 MR. MORRIS: That is the one.
