Day 062 - 06 Dec 94 - Page 50
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2 Q. Perseco Europe, it has to be called something, and you
3 happen to have called it Perseco Europe, but it does all
4 that which can conveniently be managed from your office in
5 the United Kingdom, rather than in Illinois or Singapore?
6 A. Yes.
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8 MR. MORRIS: So, for example, your chart which was 7.3, just as
9 an example, this has suppliers in -----
10 A. Distribution centres.
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12 Q. Sorry, distribution centres in about 12 countries?
13 A. Yes.
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15 Q. You have named some other countries that they also supply
16 some materials to?
17 A. Yes.
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19 Q. But, presumably, there are suppliers in Iceland and in
20 Russia, East Europe, Morocco?
21 A. How it mainly starts is that if a new country is
22 developed, it will first of all be supplied from one of the
23 already existing larger distribution centre. For instance,
24 if a new restaurant or a new country is actually opened,
25 the first restaurant is in a new country, in Eastern
26 Europe, it will be supplied from WLS which is located in
27 Germany. Then once there is enough restaurants in a
28 country to actually sustain a distribution centre, they
29 will set up a distribution centre. For instance, on this
30 graph you will not find a distribution centre for Italy.
31 Recently we do have a distribution centre for Italy but in
32 1992 we did not.
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34 So, if this specific country is not here -- Reykjavik, for
35 instance, has been begun to be delivered from Golden West
36 Foods, the distribution centre who is responsible for the
37 UK. That is purely as a matter of convenience, economics.
38 You start out from one of the established distribution
39 centres and later on it will actually split out.
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41 MS. STEEL: So in 1992 ---
42 A. Yes.
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44 Q. -- say in Morocco or something, would they get all their
45 packaging from a European company?
46 A. There was not a restaurant in Morocco in 1992. I think
47 they opened in 1993.
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49 Q. Right. Say one of the ones in -----
50 A. Eastern European, the Czech Republic?
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52 Q. Yes. Would they get all their packaging from the ones,
53 kind of, in Western Europe?
54 A. Mostly, yes, unless they could set up a local supplier,
55 then sometimes in the beginning there would be direct
56 delivery, something like that, but major items, yes, that
57 is how it went.
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59 MR. MORRIS: If we could look at 7.1, the last paragraph on 7.1,
60 it says: "These DCs waste treated as if they served 100
