Lynch Sales Company

Alfred Smith & Son

Furnishers of Distinction

Penzance, Cornwall

1st November 2008

Mr. Gareth Price
Lynch Sales Company
1 Stanley Road
Emsworth
Hampshire
PO10 7BD

Dear Gareth:

I just thought I should drop you a line as we approach the finish line! What an amazing three weeks we’ve had – unlike anything we have experienced before. When Daren outlined our targets, I was concerned that we wouldn’t even come close. Here we are, having exceeded the total by nearly 50% and having crammed in the best part of 4 months’ business into 24 days’ trading.

You know how skeptical we were that your formula could be successfully applied to sleepy Penzance. Well, I take it all back. Everything has happened just as you predicted, right down to the length of the queue on the first day! (Although I think we even confounded Daren with the length of the queue on the third day!) Daren has been fantastic. Right from the moment he walked through the door (which now seems so long ago) he has kept us focused on the talk in hand, encouraging and cajoling both the staff and us by equal measure to make sure we maximise this opportunity. We will all be sad to say goodbye to him tomorrow evening.

I’m not sure what we are going to do now- the warehouse has been emptied of stock and Christmas is just around the corner! I guess we will have to concentrate on getting all the deliveries out and collecting the money! Oh yes, I nearly forgot, the phone call to the Bank Manager to say we will not need to borrow as much a we originally thought to complete our extension!

With grateful thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Marcus Wilkinson
Director