"It's a good thing that he's gone," said Clive Langley, who hired Mr Lange in 2006. "I would imagine that the board at this moment in time are looking back thinking 'gosh, we should have done this several years ago'."
So, it begs the question "why didn't you ?!"
Mr Langley said he was confident Neptune could turn its fortunes around, despite a plunge in net profit to $800,000 in 2009-10.
"It's sad to think that Neptune can't win every job because Neptune should have 20 teams probably everywhere in the world working right now," he said. "I can guarantee that with the correct management of the various divisions that to achieve more than $800,000 profit isn't very difficult to do."
O.K. then - put your money where your mouth is and do it if it is so bloomin' easy. Stop talking, just DO. Actions and results will speak louder than words and it is NOW that people want action.
The past is the past, make the 2010 AGM the point at which we turned around and said "enough has been enough" and CHANGE things, because shareholders are sick and tired - they want to see profit and they want to see the board making steps towards that profit.
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