"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved – and always will solve – the problems of the human race."

Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the USA (1923-1929)

Have you ever wondered why, at BBR, we call our team a "Global Network of Experts"? It was – and remains – important to us that any slogan we use should reflect the qualities of our organisation – an international presence, our interconnection and positive working relationships and, above all, the attitude of our people. I believe that the BBR Network embodies the "Three Ps" – professionalism, persistence and pleasure – which go together to make a successful business. Professionalism is when organisations and individuals go the extra distance to develop and launch products or produce leading-edge project solutions. Next comes “Persistence” – this, for me, is about not giving up. For example, when testing something or finding the best solution for a project, you have to try more than once to find the right recipe – optimising and changing things as you go. Thirdly, we have “Pleasure” – the BBR Network can undoubtedly put smiles on faces. A key secret of the BBR Network is that we are in fact a family who respect each other as individuals and as professionals, have a desire to learn and enjoy working together – this is quite evident at all our meetings and indeed at our Global BBR Conferences.

If your credentials and aspirations match ours, we would very much like to hear from you – we are always looking for good, highly qualified people and market-leading organisations to join the international BBR Network. At BBR, we inspire our team members to improve themselves, both personally and professionally. For further information, please contact us by e-mail, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Over the next 12 months, we expect to be harvesting the fruits of our labours – with some additional product launches within the BBR VT CONA CMX series. These products will be larger sizes – including world recordsized multi-strand tendons which will be used in the nuclear industry. We have new products for external post-tensioning and will be launching a proprietary product mainly geared for strengthening structures. As far as the market place is concerned, we anticipate that the energy sector will continue to perform strongly in 2008 and beyond. We are also looking forward to exciting cable stayed bridge projects which typcially feature cross-continental BBR Network collaboration – more of that in the next edition Finally, we have also grown as a Network and I’d like to welcome some new faces who have joined us.

January 2008

BBR VT International Ltd

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