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M: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the launch of our new company. This is a special day for us. Now we have merged with Sinclairs to become Riverside Clothing Limited. and we are confident that our success at selling our own brand of clothing will continue. There have been some important staff changes. Our previous Chief Executive, Simon Marsh, has moved on to become MD of another company, so congratulations to our Sales Manager, David Shaw, who will become Chief Executive. We wish him every success in his new role.
     The position of the new premises here was carefully chosen so that we would be at the new airport, instead of being in a city center like. a lot of other factories.
     These premises are far bigger. Although our sales area has remained about the same and we have slightly more room for design workshops, it is the manufacturing area that we have expanded the most.
     As you can see, this is a very exciting time for us and we will continue to improve our facilities for staff. There will now be plenty of space to build a new staff car park. as parking has always been a problem. That’ll be completed in the spring. However, the staff canteen is now open and I hope you will be joining us for lunch there later.
     Now that we’ve moved, we intend to expand into two new areas of the clothing industry. In addition to our existing adults’ range, we are ready to start on a range of children’s clothes. These will be in production by next month, followed later in the year by a new range of sportswear.
     We already have a strong market for the range—in America and Japan, but will be targeting Australia next, which is an unknown export market for us.