Australia, SA pledge closer ties in wine
By Wine Atlas, Friday 19 August 2005 :: Wine - Australia :: #51 :: rss
CAPE TOWN — Johan van Rooyen, CEO of the South African Wine and Brandy Company (SAWB), and Paul Chambers, president of the Winemakers Federation of Australia (WFA), yesterday said that a closer relationship was necessary to boost sales in the face of competition from Europe and the US.
The attempt to forge closer ties has come during a visit to SA by Chambers in which both groups acknowledged that, despite competing for the same shelf space in Europe and other wine markets, there were plenty of beneficial opportunities for closer co-operation in wine(...)
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