Reply To: Paper Makers' Allied Trades Assc.

Thanks for your contribution Barry.

It is interesting to see how attitudes are changing.

Suppliers to the paper-industry, more than most industries, were faced with many customers with a high sense of entitlement to “perks” – personal (copious lunches, freebies etc) and business (expectation of instant service and suppliers’ personnel doing jobs that the mill couldn’t be bothered with but were important for the operation).

Led to a blurring between perks and bribery which certainly was not healthy to the long-term industry.

The oil industry recognised this in the 1990s and were much stronger for it.