NARGA Chairman John Cummings

NARGA contact details

by Ken on August 4, 2008

NARGA has moved.  Our new address is:
Suite 9, Level 2, 33 Macmahon Street, Hurstville, NSW, 2220.
Telephone: 02 9585 0721, 02 9586 4671, 02 9580 1602  Fax 02 9579 2746
Media contacts:
John Cummings, Chairman, 0418 953 845
Ken Henrick, Chief Executive Officer, 0417 849 041 or 02 9580 1602

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Submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics detailing NARGA’s concerns that the independent grocery sector is losing market share to the extent that their wholesaling and distribution networks will become unviable.
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Access of Small Business to Finance #2

30 May 2010

Second NARGA submission to Senate Standing Committee on Economics detailing how other governments and jurisdictions support small business access to finance.
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Submission to NEPM Regarding Packaging Waste

18 May 2010

Mechanisms aimed at reducing the volumes of packaging waste disposed in landfill or making packaging more resource efficient are rarely assessed in the context of their impact on the total supply chain.  The current [NEPM] RIS fails to do so, taking as a given the validity of the National Waste Policy and the need for [...]

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Access of Small Business to Finance

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A review of current bank interest rates as regularly advertised in national dailies shows a substantial difference in the rates being charged to home owners as opposed to businesses.  This is in spite of the fact that business loans are often secured through mortgages on private property suggesting that the risk profile is not all [...]

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Plastic Shopping Bags and Reusable Bags – A Comparison

6 March 2010

Comparison of factors that affect the ‘greenness’ of both plastic disposable and reusable shopping bags, demonstrating that reusable bags may not be as environmentally friendly as many people believe.
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Submission to Australian Bureau of Statistics – Review of the CPI

3 March 2010

Submission to Australian Bureau of Statistics to outline the links between the Consumer Price Index and the practical issues confronting the independent grocery sector.
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Current Issues in Australian Competition Policy – Creeping Acquisitions

19 February 2010

Australian consumers will be exposed to increasingly uncompetitive market sharing by the two largest supermarket chains if nothing is done to address current trends. 
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Current Issues in Australian Competition Policy – Anti-Competitive Price Discrimination

18 February 2010

Many other countries have legal prohibitions against anti-competitive price discrimination  -  where a company sells identical product to different customers at different prices.  Australia does not.
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Letter to Food Standards Australia New Zealand – Semi-Dried Tomato Processing

1 February 2010

NARGA recommendations to FSANZ regarding proposed extension of regulations covering manufacture and processing of semi-dried tomato products.
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