The contempt of the signalmen for the people that ultimately pay their wages has left a very nasty smell in Aromascan Plc’s electronic nose: it got its flotation away successfully and raised the UKP12m it wanted, but had to give away rather more of the equity than it wanted, and had to settle for a UKP27m valuation on the company instead of the UKP35m to UKP40m it hoped for; the reason is that its top brass was prevented by the rail strikes from coming down from Manchester to make presentations to City institutions.
