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To: MoneyPenny who wrote (964)	9/29/2005 4:06:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217615

<I did not know F&P was a Kiwi company. I love their dishwashers, so efficient and different. I look forward to their other innovations. I specify them all the time for clients.> The two drawer dishwasher is excellent for Jews and others who require separate washing of some utensils. Not to mention the convenience, capacity, efficiency, speed etc. I don't know whether they've retained their creative people, but during my time associated with them, I decided they were the second best company I've come across after QUALCOMM Incorporated. I have been closely involved with hundreds of companies and fairly well involved with thousands as an fuels and lubricants salesman and sales engineer and other oily jobs in Canada, New Zealand, London and Antwerp. It's not just F&P's creativity, it was also their management, which was excellent and I assume still is, though I note they appointed Norman Geary to the board of directors and I do NOT have confidence in him [he used to work at BP Oil in my era]. It's interesting, given all the whining about outsourcing in the USA, that a manufacturing company is moving equipment OUT of Australia and New Zealand INTO the USA, rather than setting up shop in China or India. The USA is obviously competitive. Making dishwashers and washing machines is also somewhat labour intensive, so the economics is interesting and shows the USA is not dead yet. Mqurice