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Wool Customers Change
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 6:45 pm | Wool Exporters Council
The profile of New Zealand wool exports has seen a significant change in the current season. More >>
Wool Exporters Double Promotion Funding
Monday, 7 November 2011, 8:44 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Wool Exporters Double Promotion Funding Wool exporters have renewed and strengthened their commitment to the Campaign for Wool and other wool promotion projects. Mr John Dawson, who has just been re-elected as president of the Wool Exporters Council, ... More >>
Wool Industry: Extra Quarter Billion Dollars Here to Stay
Thursday, 27 January 2011, 2:39 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Strong wool prices settled at today’s Napier and Christchurch wool auctions and wool is now pumping an additional $200 to $250 million dollars into the rural communities compared to last season, says the president of the New Zealand Wool Exporters Council ... More >>
Exporters Say Don’t Take Your Anger Out On Us
Friday, 7 January 2011, 6:39 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Wool Partners Co-operative is trying to muzzle the Wool Exporters Council from encouraging woolgrowers to ask a few hard questions, but the Exporters’ Council is unrepentant for pointing out the shortfalls in a prospectus to raise $65 million. More >>
Wool Co-Op Will Never Get Across The Line
Friday, 7 January 2011, 12:22 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Wool Partners Co-operative claims that it has $35 million investment support, which verifies the independent research findings that this float will fail, in spite of the optimism of its chairman Jeff Grant. More >>
Jeff Grant Challenged To Front Up With The Float Facts
Friday, 31 December 2010, 7:15 pm | Wool Exporters Council
31 December 2010 Jeff Grant Challenged To Front Up With The Float Facts The chairman of Wool Partners Co-operative Jeff Grant has been challenged to come clean and provide an accurate update of how many growers have signed up for the $65 million capital ... More >>
Survey Indicates Wool Partners Co-Operative Float Is Sinking
Thursday, 30 December 2010, 5:46 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Over 70 percent of wool growers will not be applying for shares in the Wool Partners Co-operative float, according to an independent survey by Horizon Research that was commissioned by the New Zealand Council of Wool Exporters. More >>
Wool Exporters Determined to Restore Woolgrower Prosperity
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 10:15 am | Wool Exporters Council
Exporters, better than anyone, understand the need to restore profitability back into the wool industry and should not be the politicians’ whipping boy, says the president of the Wool Exporters Council Mr John Dawson. More >>
Taskforce Report Pleases Wool Exporters
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 4:16 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Wool exporters think that the Wool Taskforce did a reasonable job and that its report could lead to resolving some of the issues in the wool industry. Exporters Council president John Henderson said that the Taskforce has to be complimented on opening ... More >>
WPI - Act on the Market Signal
Tuesday, 8 September 2009, 12:34 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Wool exporters say that Wool Partners International should be wound up immediately. They say that rejection of the wool levy is a clear indication that the market interference programmes undertaken by Meat and Wool New Zealand and the Wool Industry Network ... More >>
Wool Vote Disappoints But Paves The Way For Unity
Monday, 31 August 2009, 2:37 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Wool exporters are disappointed but not surprised that farmers have rejected Meat and Wool New Zealand’s wool levy proposals. But they see the veto as a golden opportunity to re-unite the wool industry and collectively work together to ensure wool growers ... More >>
Farmers Not Exposed To Export Risks
Friday, 27 March 2009, 3:15 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Meat & Wool NZ chairman Mike Petersen is on the wrong track in suggesting farmers were out of pocket, because a few wool export contracts have been renegotiated. Growers who supplied the wool would not pay a cent for any losses from renegotiated contracts, ... More >>
Exporters Welcome Elders Wool Initiative
Monday, 16 February 2009, 2:27 pm | Wool Exporters Council
The Wool Exporters Council welcomed the two recent wool marketing arrangements announced by Elders Primary Wool; firstly a deal with the world’s biggest carpet retailer and secondly in setting up a support and supply relationship on behalf of Romney ... More >>
New Wool Venture “Scary”
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 3:53 pm | Wool Exporters Council
The lack of a basic understanding by Meat and Wool New Zealand chairman Mr Mike Petersen and by Wool Partners International chairman Ms Theresa Gattung, of how the wool industry operates has been described by the Wool Exporters Council as “positively ... More >>
US Crossbred User Drops NZ For South America
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 10:05 am | Wool Exporters Council
A major US buyer of New Zealand wool say it will now buy wool from South America rather than deal with New Zealand, because of approaches made to it by the Wool Industry Network. More >>
Win Offers Incentives—Growers Will Pay
Wednesday, 20 August 2008, 3:58 pm | Wool Exporters Council
Offers of large sums of promotional money direct to international wool manufacturers is once again on the agenda for the Wool Industry Network as a way to create business for its new grower co-operative hybrid company. More >>
Exporters Calming Wool Supply Uncertainty Fears
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 9:13 am | Wool Exporters Council
13 August 2008 Exporters Calming Wool Supply Uncertainty Fears International users of crossbred wool are becoming increasingly concerned the proposed grower cooperative-hybrid wool company will intervene in the market and disrupt their supplies. There is a ... More >>
Bring Back The Woolmark--We’ll Help Growers Pay
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 4:33 pm | Wool Exporters Council
More than 40 wool industry leaders, who are not aligned to the new PGG Wrightson wool company, want to see international wool promotion resurrected and they’re offering to help fund it from their own pockets. More >>
Wool Company Claims Questioned
Friday, 18 July 2008, 12:07 am | Wool Exporters Council
Wool exporters are questioning the validity of much of the publicity about the new Wool Company and say that recently appointed Chairman, Ms Theresa Gattung, has been thrown a hospital pass on a subject that she demonstrated yesterday that she knows ... More >>
