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Business View Oceania - October/November 2017
The Efficacy Of Efficiency
Much like many of its finely tuned
machines, Tollman itself operates like
a finely tuned machine. It’s more than
apparent that under Dodson’s leader-
ship, efficiency is King, which is like-
ly another branch to the success sto-
ry of the business. An example of this
resourcefulness coming into play? The
company has only one site of opera-
tions with no ambition to build any-
more.
“To get the unit cost of production
down, you need to really work your site
hard,” Dodson explains.
“It can be a difficult country, Austral-
ia, the distance and costs of trans-
portation are vast. It’s cheaper to do
it here, and if we need to ship to the
west, we can do so for a reasonable
amount of money.”
Fundamentally, Dodson clarifies that
the goal at Tollman is to maximise