The News Review:
- Tasmanian wholesaler adopts Pronto ERP platform
- Tasmania’s official onion legend
- Court allows Wielangta logging in Tas
Tasmanian wholesaler adopts Pronto ERP platform
supply chain review – Nov 30, 2007
SIW will implement PRNT-ZI across its Cash N Carry Foodservice division which supplies dry frozen and chilled grocery products to Woolworths and independent supermarkets throughout Tasmania. Launceston-based SIW employs 350 staff out of two distribution centres and three Cash N Carry Foodservice outlets. It is majority owned by Woolworths with independent retailers holding the other 40 percent. SIW General Manager David Lanham says the Pronto ERP rollout will enable SIW to consolidate its IT infrastructure improve financial control and stock visibility and set the business up for their next stage of growth.
Tasmania’s official onion legend
abc.net.au – Nov 30, 2007
Don Fawkner from Spreyton received the Reg Miller award from nions Australia at a dinner last night. Don was working with Clements and Marshalls in the 1960s when onions started to be grown commercially in Tasmania and spent the latter half of his working life breeding better onions. “These days the consumers want a certain type of onion and a certain size with a certain type of skin and so forth and to do that you must be very good at planting. ” In this report: Don Fawkner onion grower and recipient of the Reg Miller award for his contribution to the onion industry Latest Country Hour Stories.
Court allows Wielangta logging in Tas
The Age – Nov 30, 2007
Justices Ross Sundberg Raymond Finkelstein and John Dowsettunanimously upheld an appeal by Forestry Tasmania setting aside aprevious Federal Court judgment that logging in the 10000 hectareforest be banned because of the impact on threatened species. In the original case brought last year by Australian Greensleader Bob Brown Federal Court Judge Shane Marshall ruled thatlogging in the forest about 50km north of Hobart was illegalbecause it threatened endangered species such as the stag beetleTasmania’s wedge tailed eagle and the swift parrot. Forestry Tasmania then appealed the decision with the backing ofthe federal government. The decision led Senator Brown to accuse then federalenvironment minister Malcolm Turnbull of “a glaring hypocrisy” inseeking to have the ban lifted. “Malcolm wants to stop the logging and burning of rare andendangered species like the orangutan in Indonesia but wants tooverturn a court ruling protecting a rare and endangered species inTasmania. It doesn’t add up” Senator Brown said. He said the $200 million from the Howard government to slow upillegal logging in Indonesia was offset by the $100 million givento Tasmania’s loggers since the 2004 federal election for forestryintensification including accelerated logging and burning ofancient forests.