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A little anecdote of interest from BS:
The fruit processor has experienced a massive boost in sales while the future of its cannery at Shepparton in central Victoria came under a cloud.
SPC Ardmona managing director Peter Kelly reckons:
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“I don’t tell people to buy it out of guilt, I’m saying consider us and we’ll earn our spot with you.”
Prime Minister Tony Abbott reckons:
“We said SPC Ardmona had a good future and it does. We said that it didn’t need $25 million from the commonwealth and it doesn’t,” he said.
There’ll always be a job for Tony Abbott in marketing at the cannery if the prime ministership doesn’t work out!
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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