It’s sometimes harder to sell Australian products at David Jones than at Harrods. Samea Maakrun explains why export was the fastest route to success for her skincare brand Sasy n Savy.
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Unveiling a new Camry this week, Toyota Australia has declared it will continue to export from its Melbourne plant, despite tough conditions in the car manufacturing industry.
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Lisa Goodhand explains why communicating correctly with the right person is key to avoiding falling victim to Chinese whispers.
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Nissan Australia’s casting plant has won a global tender to manufacture parts of the company’s flagship electric car. The contract is to produce three cast aluminium parts for the inverter box of the battery-powered Leaf model, currently sold in Japan and the USA. The deal will guarantee more than $150 million in export revenue over [...]
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Falling exports and rising imports will damage Australia’s $102 billion food and grocery industry, according to a new report by the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) and KPMG. The annual State of the Industry 2010 report details the pressure the sector has come under in the last six years, underlining the $4.5 billion surplus [...]
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Machinery exporter Kelly Engineering has been named Telstra’s 2010 South Australian Business of the Year. A machinery manufacturer which custom-makes equipment for agricultural purposes, Kelly Engineering took home the top honour at the recent awards ceremony. Now located in Booleroo Centre, Kelly Engineering started as a hobby business on a farm 20 years ago and [...]
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Victorian Premier John Brumby last week opened a major manufacturing facility for biscuit and cake makers Unibic, proving that manufacturing is still an important part of the state’s business. “Victoria is Australia’s food bowl, leading the nation in food production, processing and export and we will continue to work with the industry to further increase [...]
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Want to read a book about China and the people who actually work in the factories? My good friend Steve Welsh (IMS) recently lent me Factory Girls: Voices from the heart of modern China, by Leslie T Chang and I have to highly recommend it. Factory Girls is a modern account of the lives, loves [...]
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National Manufacturing Week and Austech (NMW 2010) began yesterday with a call for more people to enter the industry as the advanced manufacturing sector grows. “Despite international competition, the GFC and other challenges, Australia’s manufacturing industry is alive and well,” said Shane Infanti, CEO of peak body Australian Manufacturing Technology Institute (AMTIL). “Manufacturers contribute more [...]
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Australian manufacturing has suffered a number of blows over the years, and it’s the advanced segment that’s bouncing back from the ropes and the business is still going global. Manufacturing is dead. At least, that’s what the media seemed to report when Pacific Brands moved their textile production offshore last year. But it seems manufacturing [...]
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