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WPI Chief Executive Officer Iain Abercrombie has also announced that he will be stepping down from the business at this time to pursue other opportunities. During his tenure, WPI has succeeded in pulling together an integrated value chain for wool including the wool brokering business of PGW, the exporting business of Bloch & Behrens and the Wools of New Zealand marketing arm and has overseen the launch of Laneve into the US and European markets.
The success of these strategies has become evident in recent months as WPI has secured brand royalties from manufacturing partners internationally and has started offering added-value contracts to growers in New Zealand.
Mr Gould acknowledged the outstanding work Theresa Gattung, Keith Sutton, Craig Norgate and Iain Abercrombie have done on behalf of WPI and growers alike.
A new Chief Operating Officer, Craig Osborne, has been appointed to lead the WPI business. Having been raised on a Manawatu sheep farm, Mr Osborne comes to the role with a 20-year career in agriculture and agricultural co-operatives.
"It’s a privilege to be asked to lead this business and an exciting time to be joining it,” said Mr Osborne. “WPI has a very good business which I think others in the industry are now starting to recognise. There are a lot of opportunities in front of us and I look forward to pursuing those and working with growers to help facilitate WPC Plan B."
Source:PGG Wrightson (PGW)
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