Captions by 3D and 6D Pictures for the Woolworths Museum
Music: Dame Vera Lynn 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye ...'
Keith Fleming: 'When you hear some of the things said, the Store Manager said that it makes him proud to be part of Woolworths again.' [Music: '..cheerio, here I go on my way..']
Bob Hetherington: 'I'm not smart enough to know it can't be done - it can be done!' [Music: '..you and I..']
Stephen Round: 'I mean on the 6th September we started, on the 6th December we agreed to do a live trial, and by 28th February, year 2000 and all, we managed to open a store that worked.'
Music: 'Give me a smile I can keep all the while, in my heart while I'm away...'
Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy: 'The rationale for the demerger is very simple - be able to compete better.
Trevor Bish-Jones: 'Woolworths is a great brand. I mean last week seven million customers visited our stores, and that tells you how they feel about us. [Song: 'Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye]
Bish-Jones: 'And we're going to have tremendous fun driving Woolworths forward.' [Song: 'Cheerio, here I go on my way']
Christopher Rogers: 'Double figure sales increases, and increase the margin by between one and two percent.'
Steve Lewis: 'Don't be afraid to put in the extra ten percent.'
Trevor Bish-Jones: 'Is this better than last year?' [Others in background snigger.]
Gill Barr: 'It is a Cinderella-scale transformation.'
Jonathan Hart: 'The hard work and the effort, I think, hasn't been repaid yet. The competitive environment continues to be pretty tough, and we haven't seen the results in our sales that I think we deserve.
Song: 'Give me a smile I can keep all the while, in my heart while I'm away...'
Steve Johnson: 'My judgement is that it is highly unlikely that any such conversations will lead to anything happening to this business.'
Trevor Bish-Jones: 'And having got to a position where we now have NO debt in the business, we've got a very, very strong platform from which to move forward. Song (crescendo): 'Good---bye----!'