Profits up at Craib
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ABERDEEN HAULIER ARR Craib Transport has bounced back from two difficult years of trading to increase pre-tax profits by nearly 80%.
The Scottish operator lost its biggest customer last year, when BPB shut its Davidson Mill; in 2004 it was hit by a single had debt of £250,0(X).
Pre-tax profits for the year ending 31 March 2006 were £574,198 against £321,421 last year. Turnover in both years was more than £33m.
Managing director Eddie Anderson says he is pleased with the latest profit figures, but that there is some way to go.
The profits increase moves the profit on turnover from 1 % to closer to 2%, but Anderson is aiming for 5%. "We've further improved it this year so I'm reasonably happy," he says.
One of the ways Craib has reinvented itself is to separate its sales and traffic departments more clearly.
Anderson adds that the reorganised sales team has dramatically increased the number of customer enquiries that have been converted into sales.