The UK business of BSI is now only a portion of the organization. Its
corporate thrust appears to be more interested in expanding overseas than
worrying about the cost of BS's to poor arbs or Ms Jones with her tree in
the back garden.
However if the intellectual knowledge wrapped up in a BS is provided by a
team of professional volunteers I would be interested to know what the cost
base of producing a BS is. Low print runs as a basis doesn't seem to an
issue with PDFs available via the web and the cost of much more widely used
BSs seem to be the same as BS5837.
Having worked for organizations with 10% of costs going to HQ corporate
overheads but with nothing to show for it in return I am sure we are paying
in part for business class flights and corporate entertainment to keep the
fat cats going. But of course we all realise that is why we are here on
earth so I'd better shut up and generate the funds to keep them going.
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cullen [mailto:dscottcul@xxxx.net]
Sent: 22 March 2006 12:32
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: Storm the BSI!
So then operating profit margin is 7.19% and profit margin before tax is
3.43%. So I'm hard pressed to see this as a scandalous profit. How do
these margins compare with industry generally or the publishing sector? If
profits have grown becuase overhead has been reduced and either prices
charged have stayed constant or been increased mybe that was all to get this
behemouth to stay afloat.
SC
----- Original Message -----
From: jon heuch
To: UK Tree Care
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:17 PM
Subject: RE: Storm the BSI!
FYI
BSI turnover to Dec 2004: 242 million smackers
Operating profit for the period: 17.4 million
Profit before tax for the period: 8.3 million
Director remuneration for the period: 1.1 million
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