摘要：As Hank Vander Pol looked around the table he could see the concern on the faces of theother Board members. It was a beautiful day in late November 1998, but the mood in theBoardroom of Essex Continental Distributors Inc. (ECDI) was somber. The main topic at themeeting was the voluntary receivership of Essex Continental's largest wholesale customer,Botner Wholesale Ltd. Botner operated on the Montreal Food terminal selling a wide rangeof produce to customers from their terminal location. While the company had been a bit slowpaying its bills, the move into receivership caught the ECDI directors by surprise. ECDIstood to lose $250,000 in receivables but, more important, it had just lost its only access tothe wholesale food terminal and over $1M in sales annually.
