— You will hear five speakers talking about business trips.— For each recording

The journey should turn out to be worth it. They’re obviously keen to do business with someone, and I just hope it’ll be us. They seemed to like the samples I showed them, and said they thought our terms were fair. Of course actual details would get discussed later, but I’m hopeful they’ll come on board, and it’s a part of the world where we need customers. We’ll have to see.

It’s quite an event in itself, getting all the partners together- only happens about once a year It’s tough, trying to fit everything into a couple of days, especially when we’ll be living with the decisions for a long time to come. But we have established a way forward, both targets and routes to meeting them. I think we’ll be able to strengthen our market position this way, with new branches and customer growth.