1.   Industry should be allowed to fashion and to shape its own policies based on the needs of the employer group companies.

2.   Other reasons given were the sale of subsidiaries, tightening controls on costs and improving the structures and systems of group companies.

3.   Quarmby will now be responsible for business development and managing director of group services, coordinating services to all group companies.

4.   Pieces from continental Europe were brought in by other POETS group companies, and PandO Containers transported works from Japan and the USA.

5.   In all the group companies, the process is well advanced.

6.   Alternatively, the business may be run as divisions of separate group companies.

7.   Only one former Torvale group company is still trading at Pembridge.

8.   Birla group companies have done particularly badly.

9.   Airline organizing drives are difficult because a union must win the support of a majority of an employee group company wide, rather than at a single location.