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Equipment monitoring can be tricky
I was talking monitoring systems at a party earlier this week, with a man who sells them, mainly to transport companies. He said in Britain the approach of management to implementing monitoring systems, is to say straight out to employees, we are fitting these to your vehicles to weed the crooks from the company.
Germany's face is more than a veneer
Lonely Planet says Germany is more than Mercedes Benzes and shampooed poodles. Indeed it is. Having just spent most of the last week in the Bavarian capital city of Munich to attend a media preview for the forthcoming bauma (see news item), it is easy I suppose to make conclusions that maybe don't apply to the rest of the country. But here goes.
Employee share plan drives contractor to 25% annual compound growth
For every year of its 28 years in business, Perth based company Ertech Pty Ltd, has recorded 25% compound growth. But founder and principal Jim Giumelli, said in a toolbox session at the CCF’s national conference in the WA capital called Hand it On or Hand it Over: “I don’t think we’re going to do it this year. However we haven’t made a loss yet and I don’t intend to.”
Mack Trucks’ Weapons of Mass Construction take Sydney by storm
Volvo-owned Mack Trucks, staged a media day at Sydney’s Olympic Park yesterday, titled Weapons of Mass Construction.
Perth conference an unqualified success
The Civil Contractors Federation's annual conference is over for another year and very successful it was too.
