Leney : key performance indicators (K.P.Is )1916-1919

Post date: Feb 25, 2015 6:1:26 PM

Starting in May 1917 a monthly report was made to the Leney board covering a number of Key Performance Indicators (K.P.Is) (not a term used then): barrels of Cask beer output; Bottled beer output in dozens; crate beer output in crates; wine and spirits in £s; together with some primitive financial indicators (cash receipts; cash payments; bank balance).

Comparatives for the previous year are included so we have data starting in May 1916. Although the minutes record the report as being read to the board no further comments are recorded in the board minutes. It is disappointing that we do not have comparative data from before the war.

The 28 reports available attached to the minutes of the Leney Board (Kent archives U3555/2/L/Ba2/1/1.) are shown on the attached spreadsheet.

To summarise (for 1916 data has been annualised from those months for which statistics are avaiable):

• barrels of beer output fell by nearly a third from 25,633 in 1916 to 18,153 in 1917 with a similar level (18208) in 1918 before climbing to 22,626 in 1919 i.e. not back to the 1916 level.

• bottled beer, dozens output showed an even larger fall (40%) than barrelled beer from 1916 (47,996 doz.) to 1917 (28,944 doz) , recovering a bit in 1918 ( 30,413 doz) before another fall in 1919 (22,476 doz).

• crate beer output is devastated from its 1916 level of 96,858 crates falling to 36,787 crates in 1917, and then further in both 1918 (29,839 crates) and 1919 (19469 crates).