Day 067 - 15 Dec 94 - Page 50
1 Q. Have you visited Hungary?
2 A. No, I have not. I have again about a week ago, the
3 last conversation I had with Mr. Doug Gullang, we discussed
4 Hungary. We went over a lot of the things that would cover
5 this as well as who set the issues, the processing
6 capabilities, where have they gone and where are they now?
7 He expressed and told me that they have done a lot of
8 improvements; they have improved significantly to the point
9 that they are as well as most of the suppliers at this
10 time.
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12 Q. Just while I think of it because I forget to ask you at the
13 beginning, there is nothing here, say, from Japan where you
14 have a 1,000 stores or something in Japan?
15 A. Yes.
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17 Q. I suppose the UK is not so important because we have
18 witnesses anyway from that. There are obviously a lot of
19 other countries, but did you just not get any replies from
20 some countries?
21 A. That could be the case. In your particular example of
22 Japan we import beef patties from the US, we import also
23 could be -- they are always global sourced, they are
24 sourcing their products from our suppliers around the
25 world, so they could buy today from the US, the next month
26 they could buy from Australia, the following month from New
27 Zealand. They will only buy from our approved suppliers
28 though.
29
30 Q. What about all the other countries that did not answer or
31 whatever? It cannot be more than half of the McDonald's
32 countries down here in this list at most?
33 A. Let me just answer that by saying that these were
34 answers or responses that came back in 1992. We have added
35 a number of I would say probably 14, 15 countries in which
36 we operate today.
37
38 Q. Sorry, these forms?
39 A. Yes.
40
41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They are exactly the same number as the
42 letters of he alphabet which is 26. You operate in 74
43 countries, so that is approximately a third of the
44 countries are spoken for on the forms. That is what is
45 being put to you.
46 A. OK. It would also be fair to add that some of the
47 responses include some of the countries where the product
48 has moved to that country. We do not have suppliers of
49 beef or chicken or pork in every single country. But to
50 answer your question more directly, no, I did not get a
51 response from every single country that is available.
52
53 MR. MORRIS: So are you saying that there are no countries
54 outside these ones who have local suppliers for their ----
55 A. No, I did not say that. There could be a few countries
56 who have a supplier and did not answer.
57
58 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, what one does notice, for example, is
59 that most of Europe is not in this selection of documents.
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