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The headlines on the latest edition of the BRS company newspapers tell vastly different tales from around the country.
Wilf Bates up in the Northwest says he made -a respectable profit." Len Atkinson over in eastern says he is -set fair to meet the budget.John Farrant of Southern and Ron Fortune of North Eastern claim ''a good year'', while Eric Shortland modestly says "A better year for Morton's-. Ron Irons at Western will "be on target-, Steve Abel is unusually coy about Midlands' achievement, but the man who gets our sympathy this week is John Copland, of Scottish Road Services.
At the end of its first full trading year as SRS, he reports -a poor year.SRS made only six per cent return on capital, and will be lucky to achieve 60 per cent of its budgeted profit
John doesn't mince his words: "1977 has been a disastrous trading year," he says.
Well, a man's halfway to success when he recognises and admits his shortcomings.
BRS Group as a whole had a good year, as David White tells us on page three of the BRS company newspaper, quite out of character. The normally quiet David refers to his group as -Super BRS"