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Gordon Slater - Chairman Byron Bay Cookie Company

Topic - Know Risk - No Risk, pushing down barriers and using your passion

Profile - Byron Bay Cookie Company has been Exporting since 2002, Byron Bay Cookie Company’s key markets include the UK, Ireland, Europe, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore. Cookies from the Byron Bay Cookie Company are not only found here and overseas, but in the airspace between, on airlines such as Qantas and Virgin Blue. Quality is key, and the team aim to maintain the same quality that was found for the local market. They attribute part of their export success to creating specific market plans, packaging and flavours for each market they target. An office in the UK serves that market as well as enabling them to sell into nine other European markets. They’ve recently increased staff in the UK office as part of a new export strategy to take on the US. The company took home the 2001 NSW Telstra Small Business Award, as well as being named a finalist for the following three years.

Bruce Napier - Principal, Napier & Associates
Chairman - SC Environmental Industries Group

Topic: Bringing Change in the Marketplace – The Experience of Environmental Industries

Bruce will relate the experience of Environmental Industries (Sunshine Coast) in bringing new ways of thinking to challenge established practice. Drawing on some surprising analogies, he will share some of the highs and lows, the “do’s and don’ts” and his perspective on changing the world.

Profile: Bruce Napier is one of the Sunshine Coast’s leading Environmental Consultants

Over the last eighteen years his practice has grown from a home office on his front verandah in Nambour, to a multi-disciplinary consultancy working throughout Queensland. His unique business structure allows his firm to utilize the skills of some of the region’s best and most innovative environmental professionals.

Bruce admits his passion for sustainable water management probably stems from growing up in the bush and having to “make the best of everything” but believes we have a lot to learn from the philosophy of “being thankful and taking nothing for granted”.

In his role as Chair of Environmental Industries (Sunshine Coast), Bruce works with some of the coast’s most creative and dynamic leaders in business education and State and Local Government organizations to help diversify of the local economy by developing and promoting sustainable practice across all areas of business and industry.