Their teams of engineers stayed on, making them two of the many "acqui-hires" that the biggest companies have used to feed their great hunger for tech talent.

Great hires pay dividends every single day they are employed - and poor hires are an invisible daily "tax" on the Team's ability to deliver business value.

Instead, Bauli hires lots of seasonal workers to work on dedicated production lines: up to 1,200 of them at peak times, more than its permanent staff of around 800.