It has been truly awful sitting on the sideline watching the Australian wine industry tear itself to pieces over the reform of WET (Wine Equalisation Tax). On the one hand, I do have sympathy for those who have invested in assets, have to figure them into their cost base only to get out-competed by those […]
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Wine Business Solution’s Direct to Customer Benchmarking Survey is now underway. This now the second year the research has been undertaken. It is designed to measure the importance of this fastest growing path to market, one that is normally eight to ten times more profitable than selling through three tiers of distribution. The project is being supported
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That was the question asked of me by Tessa Nicholson of NZ Winegrower magazine. If clients look to put together business plans that extend past 3 years, I usually suggest that they not to waste their time. Years 4 and 5 onwards typically descend into extrapolation and pure guess work as the mountain of things
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It’s that time of the year again when we prepare to go on the road with our Workshop series. After the overwhelmingly positive response we received last year and as a result of the survey of customers to which 128 of you responded, we’re going to be building upon the theme of dealing with vastly changed
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