董事长年会讲话稿英语版

Address at the Annual General Meeting

董事长年会讲话

As you know, both subsidiary companies have faced considerable problems recently, becauseboth the factory in Suzhou of Jiangsu Province and the factory in Dongguan of GuangdongProvince produce the same range of products. A major question with the Board is whichcompany to close. Briefly these are some of the facts we have looked at: overall production inDongguan was down 10% over the last year. In Suzhou, the figure was nearer 27%. This lowfigure for Suzhou reflects the great increase in the amount of time lost through industrial unately, Dongguan has not had the same problems. But neither company made any realprofit during the last financial year. Our Marietta share in Vietnam is lower this year than before,but at the same time our wage-bill is also lower. In India, too,our market share dropped badlylast year, but the number of employees is in fact higher.

大家知道，我们的两个附属公司都面临着相当多的问题。因为在苏州和东莞的.两家工厂目前都在生产同一种产品，董事会所要讨论的一个主要问题就是决定关闭哪家工厂。下面我们简单地来看一组数据：东莞的总产量去年下降了10%，苏州的总产量下降了将近27%。苏州的数字让我们看到，劳资纠纷导致的时间损失越来越多。幸运的是，东莞目前还没有这些问题。不过，这两个公司在上一财政年度中都没有创造实际利润。在越南，我们的市场份额今年也比往年低，但是工资支出也比较低。在印度，我们的市场份额在去年同样是大幅度下降，但是员工数量却比以前更多了。