RE: So anyone have thoughts as to the saleβ¦.29 Mar 2022 09:29
MIB, sounds like a very successful business, well done.
But let's say hypothetically your paper mill had a fixed pool of raw materials. You designed and built your mill on the basis of some tests on those materials, which are low quality to start with but your engineers tell you it'll be OK, and an estimate of their amount. As soon as you start production you find the quality of your raw materials is worse than you thought, and you had overestimated their amount. You manage to tweak the mill to produce some paper but it's a fraction of what you had planned. Even though the price of paper has gone up, you're not making enough of it and have to keep borrowing money - on top of the money you borrowed to pay for the mill - to cover your costs. Nine of your employees hurt themselves last quarter and your chief of health and safety just left so there seems to be a major cultural issue at your operation if you can't keep people safe from harm. Your shareholders want to know what the f is going on.
How do you turn it around?