Hotel ‘super-shopper’
PA Wellington Lidia Hunter is a super-shopper who orders in hundreds and thousands. As purchasing manager for the new Wellington Parkroyal Hotel, Ms Hunter has a shopping list that would set up the average household many times over — and the shopping has to be done by early next year. Thirty-eight housekeeping mops and 20 vacuum cleaners will be bought to clean the 230-room hotel, which is due for completion in early March. On the 300 beds will go some of the 2500 sheets and 3500 pillowcases Ms
Hunter must buy. The bathrooms need 2700 facecloths and 422 bathrobes. She will also be spending money on 1500 champagne glasses, 55 frying pans, 3500 teaspoons, 250 electric jugs, 200 coathangers and 1100 ashtrays. Two South Island manufacturers have won plum contracts to furnish the hotel —Christchurch’s Ferryway the beds and Dunedin’s Otago Pinecraft the wardrobes, coffee tables, desks, television stands, luggage racks, mirrors and bedside cabinets. Otago Pinecraft’s contract is valued about $1.25 million. J
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