FM Conway - Going the Extra Mile

Going the Extra Mile

And secondly – and more importantly – it opened my eyes to the possibilities of recycling.

was another room, and if there really were any other people in it. But the Liquidator solemnly shuttled between our room and theirs (or so he said), coming back to us with helpful remarks like ‘You’re getting close’ or ‘You’re not far away now’. Well, in the end, we bought it, and we thought we did a good deal, too. But the real value of Caerleon Concrete, which now became Conways Concrete Products (CCP), was not so much in the existing business as in the two important lessons that I learned from it. Firstly,

it gave me the chance to see the business from end to end: seeing the margins that the manufacturer made as well as the margins that the contractor could get. That was interesting, and I wasn’t going to forget it. And secondly – and more importantly

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