Day 202 - 11 Jan 96 - Page 33
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2 Q. So let us assume it is for 1991?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. You achieved a consolidated supervisors' profit after
6 controls, PAC, of 34.07?
7 A. Yes.
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9 Q. Per cent, that is. When you say percentage, that is pence
10 and pounds, is it?
11 A. Per cent of top line sales, yes.
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13 Q. Per cent of top line sales?
14 A. Yes.
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16 Q. Which was 0.20 per cent up but still 0.39 per cent behind
17 budget?
18 A. Yes.
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20 Q. So the budget was higher from what was achieved the
21 previous year?
22 A. That is right, yes.
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24 Q. Or the target was higher, the target budget was higher.
25 Then you go on to say, "was obtainable despite a shortfall
26 in sales"?
27 A. Yes.
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29 Q. "Versus plan". There we see, just very briefly, that
30 Clacton 194 had failed to achieve its budget by a greater
31 percentage than High Street Colchester, yes?
32 A. That is right, yes.
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34 Q. Yes, Ipswich had the highest profit after controlables?
35 A. It also had by far the highest sales, yes.
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37 Q. And the highest sales. The conclusion of this whole
38 section -- sorry, I am just trying to grasp what the
39 important points are ---
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well -----
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43 MR. MORRIS: -- to put.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think the points of detail
46 necessarily help me. Your case, as I understand it, is
47 that McDonald's ethos is so keen on profit and the various
48 margins and targets of their clients that other
49 considerations go to the wall, and one of the
50 considerations which goes to the wall, you argue, is the
51 interests of the crew and that is what we are on, the whole
52 of this evidence which we have been hearing since April of
53 last year.
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55 MR. MORRIS: Yes.
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57 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is what you want to concentrate on. One
58 of the ways in which you said it has gone to the wall is
59 this docking of pay, which is why Mr. Atherton has been
60 recalled and why we are hearing Plaintiffs' witnesses for
