Though sport is the focus of such ventures, experience in security or transport requirements, press operations, accommodation and catering, cleaning and waste management are valuable in different settings too.

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That accommodation, which may vary store to store, depending on management, made the offer particularly generous, said Greenberg.

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He said the top three factors to improving front-line services while delivering savings are to strip out duplicated layers of management, reduce debt repayments to the banks and drive down accommodation costs and overhead.

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