Because all the data is accessible through a central portal, we now have far more information available to us about our retail business than ever before. This has led to precision trend analysis while making it easy to control access to confidential information.

Competition is very fierce in the health-and-beauty sector in the Netherlands. When prices drop, we can maintain profitability only if we keep costs in hand. By carefully monitoring inventory and turnover, we are able to save several million euros in stock value.

Managers at headquarters now have an up-to-the-minute picture of how every part of the retail business is performing, which has aided accountability and helped shape strategy.

We combined radio uplinking SPOTs that give us accurate positions and data-logging PATs that store information for the duration of the programmed mission, ... By using two types of tags, we're able to accumulate a larger dataset on the sharks' habitat and preferences with a greater accuracy than we've been able to do before.

They got a lot of information that we had no other way of getting and they shared it with us.

Therefore I would ask that any member of the public who has got any information that would assist us as to the whereabouts of Mr Hardy to contact police.