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Woman:And next you turned to ambulance production.
然后你们转为生产救护车。
Man:Well, we soon decided we needed to expand our customer base by developing another product of our own,
嗯，很快我们就决定开发另一种我们自己的产品来扩大客户群。
so we started working on a design for producing a new line in ambulances.
所以我们正在设计一条新的救护车生产线
Economic changes aren't as much of a problem as they are for manufacturers of other types of vehicles.
对其他类型汽车的制造商来说，经济变革不是什么大问题。
Ambulances will always be needed.
救护车总是需要的。
Woman:And did you have any problems?
你们遇到了什么问题吗?
Man：Well yes, at that time one supplier had the monopoly of the entire market,
是的，当时一家供应商垄断了整个市场，
but as our prices have always been very competitive that's helped us to win customers from them.
但是由于我们的价格一直很有竞争力，这帮助我们从他们手里赢得了客户。
Since then we've developed our own market, and got several contracts to produce ambulances for major organisations.
从那以后，我们打开了自己的市场，并与几家大型机构签订了生产救护车的合同。
Woman:And I've read that your company organisation is rather different.
我还听说贵公司的组织机构与其他公司不同。
Man:Well, management on the production and development side is strong and we all work well as a team.
嗯，我们公司在生产和开发的管理方面式很强的，我们团队合作得很好。
But what is different is that we've achieved our success without a marketing manager.
但不同的是，我们在没有市场销售经理的情况下取得了成功。
I look after all that, with my two fellow directors.
我和我的两位主管同事负责这方面的工作。
It's obviously working turnover will be up again next year, and that's just the beginning!
很明显，明年的营业额还会上升，而这仅仅是个开始！
Woman:It all sounds too good to be true! Don't you have any problems?
这一切听起来令人难以置信！你们没有遇到什么问题吗?
Man：Well, we have a strong balance sheet, and a satisfactory cash flow, but yes we do have our problems.
我们拥有稳健的资产负债表，以及令人满意的现金流，但是，我们确实遇到了一些问题。
We need another twenty people, and there aren't any suitably qualified people living locally.
我们还需要20个人，而且当地没有合适的人。
There are trained workers in other parts of the country looking for jobs,
其他地方有训练有素的求职者，
but we've found they're not willing to move here and we're certainly not going to move we like it here too much.
但是我们发现他们不愿意搬到这里，当然我们不愿意搬到别处去，我们太喜欢这里了。
Woman:Well, I hope you manage to sort it out. Thank you for talking to us, Michael.
我希望你能帮我们解决这个问题。谢谢你和我们谈话，迈克尔。
Man:Thank you.
谢谢你！
