The extra mile : the first seventy years of Southern Transport / edited by Clive Lind ; with contributions by Ken Bell, Hamish Petrie and Simon Vincent.
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Invercargill, New Zealand :
H W Richardson Group,
2017.
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| Summary: | "Southern Transport was born out of financial necessity in 1946 when a timber company found itself in difficulties. It became the formidable business it remains today when 20-year-old Bill Richardson took charge in 1960. Seeking opportunities wherever they offered, by initiative, ingenuity and hard work, he built a transport company of such strength that it became the springboard for the formation of the HW Richardson Group. That, in turn, became one of New Zealand's largest privately-owned companies with a hugely diverse range of interests from the bottom of the country to the top, and across the Tasman as well. All that enterprise began with Southern Transport and the down-to-earth philosophy of its managing director, Bill Richardson, whose autobiography, Wheels and Deals, became a best-seller when published in 1999. Bill Richardson died in 2005 but he and the people who have run the company since lived by one indisputable truth. Great staff and the service they give make great companies or, as Southern Transport has shown, a willingness to go The Extra Mile. This is the inspirational story of the people who have proudly done that for the past seventy years"--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 207 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm |
| Notes: | Bib#: 2680129 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780473376529 0473376520 |
| Bib#: | 2680129 |
