Fletcher exports rose to $16M

Press, 31 May 1978, Page 12

Fletcher exports rose to $16M

Fletcher Holdings, Ltd,; reports that direct overseas] sales of Fletcher products and services amounted to $15.9M in the year to March 31, compared with $11.4M in 1976-77, and $5.3M in 1975176. - In a time of generally re’ll duced economic activity it was especially pleasing that the group had achieved a 39 per cent increase in exports compared with the previous fiinancial year said the chairman (Mr J. C. Fletcher). ; Over the past two years executives from almost I every trading division and subsidiary had travelled (widely on overseas sales and market development work, he said. A sound base had now been established for significant expansion in a ' wide range of items from I timber to housing from steel to project management. ‘The Fletcher group regards the winning and servicing of new export markets as a central business objective rather than as- a bonus addition to domestic 'salps

“It is to be hoped that in Export Year other New Zealand companies regardless of size will encourage and insist upon export-con-sciousness from the factory floor right through to senior management” said Mr Fletcher.