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  • 27th March 2017 at 16:45 #688
    Chris Bennett
    Keymaster

    Best known for the Annual Dinner where the suppliers ply their potentials.
    Attached is the programme and delegate list for 1983.

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    1. Paper-Ind-Allied-Trades-1983.pdf
    18th June 2020 at 11:18 #998
    Barry Lloyd
    Participant

    Fascinating! Quite a few familiar names on there, not just of people, but of companies I had forgotten. I well remember those dinners. Two a year, one for the men and one for the ladies.  Copious amounts of alcohol were consumed at both I seem to remember!

     

    18th June 2020 at 11:32 #1000
    Chris Bennett
    Keymaster

    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.

    18th June 2020 at 17:06 #1001
    Barry Lloyd
    Participant

    Thanks Chris,

    That’s exactly how I saw it, too. Our ‘entertainment’ budget was, to a large degree, unlimited. We frequently held events for the industry in the two great houses we owned, one in Bury and the other in Blackburn. Both had full-time staff and accommodation and were used for ‘in-house’ (if you’ll pardon the pun), events as well. The trade dinners, as previously mentioned, were the highlights of the year and reading the list of ‘reserved’ tables, I recall that my former employers, Scapa-Porritt, probably had the largest number!

     

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