Latest news from the Plenty Food Group
12 August 2009
- Win Business With Your Website Seminar
- DPI Agribusiness Group and RDV Food and Beverage Group Newsletter
- Hume Business Breakfast – Building a Stronger and Fairer Australia
- VECCI 2009 Victoria Summit – Workplace Futures
- Trade 2020 Opening Conference
- NBAA Breakfast – How Green Design Can Make a Better Zoo for People
- Boost Your Business - The Small Business Advisor Program
- VECCI – Fair Work Act Briefings Here. Now. Free
- Lean to Green – Integrating Business Excellence and Sustainability
- Trade-In Your Work Experience for Formal Qualifications
Win Business With Your Website Seminar
Wednesday 19 August 2009, 6.00pm to 8.00pm, Broadmeadows
Just like any business tool, your website can be an extremely effective way to achieve business growth. Through real life case studies, this seminar will identify lessons and strategies employed in designing and implementing a successful website, as well as tools used to measure success.
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DPI Agribusiness Group and RDV Food and Beverage Group Newsletter
Winter 2009 – Food Business – Taking Victorian Food to Market
Victoria prides itself on being recognised as a reliable and competitive producer of quality food and beverages for the world stage. The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development Victoria is working with industry to develop the capability to identify and adjust to evolving supply and demand challenges and opportunities, and to stimulate improved international competitiveness. Together the two departments are ensuring Victoria remains Australia's leading exporter of food products.
In maintaining their strong relationships and networks with producers, industry bodies, processors, retailers and buyers, the DPI Agribusiness Group and the RDV Food and Beverage Group have developed a new electronic quarterly newsletter to keep the industry up to date with timely, relevant information about current issues and market information. The newsletter will also inform industry of the services provided and outcomes achieved by the DPI Agribusiness Group and the RDV Food and Beverage Group
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Hume Business Breakfast – Building a Stronger and Fairer Australia
Wednesday 26 August 2009, 7.00am to 9.00am, Hilton Melbourne Airport
Join the Hon Lindsay Tanner MP at a Special Business Breakfast where he will report on the Government's plans for the long term productivity and growth of the Australian economy.
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VECCI 2009 Victoria Summit – Workplace Futures
Wednesday 26 August 2009, 10.00am to 11.30am, Melbourne
The VECCI Victoria Summit is a business, community and Government partnership that seeks to respond to the key issues that face not only our business community, but the broader Victorian and national economies.
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Trade 2020 Opening Conference
Wednesday 26 August 2009, Crown Melbourne
Trade 2020 opening conference is aimed at harnessing the most creative ideas across the nation to inform and help shape the vision for Australia’s ongoing trade and investment success. Utilising forum discussions and presentations from experts and practitioners, the program will explore issues and opportunities confronting Australian business and industry in the decade ahead.
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NBAA Breakfast – How Green Design Can Make a Better Zoo for People
Thursday 27 August 2009, Preston
Michael Pearce has been working in Australia, the UK, Zimbabwe and Zambia for 42 years. His experience covers a wide range, from building in remote parts of Central Africa to converting old buildings in North-East England and large-scale city developments in Harare and Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, an ecological exhibition centre in Belgium and the CH2 council office block in Melbourne, Australia.
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Boost Your Business - The Small Business Advisor Program
Are you looking for some expert advice to assist your business?
Boost Your Business is a free* Small Business Advisor service to assist local businesses in Whittlesea. Supported by the Box Hill Institute Business Enterprise Centre and the Whittlesea Council the confidential one hour one-on-one sessions are designed to help with business planning & growth, changes in and to your business, identifying goals and much more.
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VECCI – Fair Work Act Briefings Here. Now. Free
August to October 2009
The new Fair Work legislation means employers need to quickly understand the impact of the changes to industrial relations – workplace relations laws. The VECCI briefings are supported by the Federal Government. All employers, large and small, and employees are encouraged to attend, whether you’re a VECCI member or not.
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Lean to Green – Integrating Business Excellence and Sustainability
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The Business of Sustainability is not just topical, but in many cases critical to on-going survival. In the future, as the cost of material and energy continues to increase and becomes a larger component of the cost of manufacturing, organisations will need to adopt ‘sustainable’ strategies.
The program will help you to understand the competitive advantages for sustainable organisation. Through the exposure to tools and techniques you will complete a self-assessment, together with a planned and prioritised reduction program of your key resources – eater, energy, landfill and material consumption.
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Trade-In Your Work Experience for Formal Qualifications
Centre for Competitive Operations – Kangan Batman Tafe<
Find out how simple it is to get your skills formally recognised through our fast-tracked Skills Recognition program which offers qualifications in automotive manufacturing, competitive (‘Lean’) manufacturing, plastics or polymer engineering, logistics and supply chain management and process manufacturing. Having qualified employees can bring better business outcomes for companies.
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For all enquires on the Plenty Food Group contact
Marshall Dwyer
Food Cluster Co-ordinator
Phone +61 3 9217 2148
Mobile +61 408 587 941
Fax +61 3 94099808
contact@plentyfoodgroup.com.au