Major Disaster Plans
The Bottom Line
BBC
4.6 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The view from the top of business, presented by Evan Davis. The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies.
This week, Evan's top executive guests include two hoteliers and a soft drinks manufacturer. They discuss recent events in Japan, and explore to what extent companies can really prepare for major disasters.
They also reveal how much they know about life on the shop floor and where the problems lie.
Producer: Ben Crighton.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the Bottom Line podcast. In this week's program, Evan Davis asks his guests how prepared they can really be for major disasters. He also finds out how much they know about life on the shop floor. |
| 0:15.3 | Hello and welcome to the bottom line. I have two hoteliers with me today and a soft drinks manufacturer. We will talk |
| 0:23.4 | about world events with them, of course, and we'll also find out from them how much they really |
| 0:28.2 | know about life on the shop floor of their business, or the hotel reception, and how they get the |
| 0:33.8 | best from the frontline staff. Our first guest is Paul Moody, Chief Executive of the Drinks Company, Brit Vic. |
| 0:41.1 | Leading brands, Paul? |
| 0:42.8 | Well, the most recognised brands would be Robinson Squash, Fruit Shoot, J2O, |
| 0:47.1 | and we licence from Pepsi Cola, Pepsi and 7Up. |
| 0:50.9 | And we shouldn't forget tango either. That's one of yours. |
| 0:53.2 | No, indeed. Tango, you know when you've been tangoed, which has not been around for a long, long while, but everybody still recognises it. But that slogan went out about eight years ago. It's amazing. It was about eight, nine years ago, but everyone recalls it. And another of our brands is R. White's Lemonade. And we all recognize the secret lemonade drinkers so it just demonstrates the strength |
| 1:11.1 | of brand it does indeed we'll talk more about soft drinks a little later on and then also in the |
| 1:16.0 | studio we have the different ends of the hotel industry represented here guy parsons is chief |
| 1:21.3 | executive of the UK budget hotel chain travel lodge and guy actually you don't call yourself a hotel |
| 1:26.6 | you call yourself an eier. You call yourself |
| 1:27.5 | an e-commerce website, I think. That's right, Evan, because we take 90% of our booking through our own website. And our website's about the same sort of size as people like b.a.com, it's a top 30s website. So we're a sort of e-commerce-based business that happened to sell hotel rooms. and they're very different hotel |
| 1:25.4 | than Rowlands. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.4 | Well, I should say |
| 1:28.3 | Roland Voss is president of based business that happened to sell hotel rooms. And they're very different hotel rooms than Rowlands. |
| 1:45.5 | I should say Roland Voss is president of Starwood hotels in Europe, Middle Eastern Africa. |
| 1:51.6 | Starwood being a huge operator of luxury hotels. |
| 1:54.1 | And Roland, your brand's Sheraton, but it's a lot of others too. |
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