RM Williams heading for the world stage

Now you can get a nice "RM Williams" handbag and some luggage to go with that.

Yep; you really need robust boots & clothes sipping lattes in Canberra!
:)

Jeez Terry your game. Or is it just like the tide.
Cheers,Dave.

I will stand corrected.... but isnt IGA now owned by a South African crowd?

Aldi is German.

IGA is a member driven buying group and is owned by the members who are on the board..... not one in particular person or company owns it.

You may be correct Tony. How do we really know. But we, my wife and I, try to keep our hard earned cash in Australia.

We wanted to visit a mountain range on a 1mil acre plus Australian station. In the process of getting permission (all good by the way) we ended up talking to the owners who are Saudis. Would you believe it.

Boobook I know.

That was my point and why we personally do not shop there. Sorry that I did not make that clear. We cannot do much about it but we try to support the Australian shop or business owner and buy Australian owned and made etc etc when we have a choice. And definitely not because of cost.

We even buy all our jams on line from JDs Jam Fatcory in Young. Note that we are just customers.



Phil

JD's is not there(In the Piccy) anymore, it's now a Distillery "BlueStill". JD's has been sold and is now in a different spot. Still Young.

Hi Phil,

I do not usually get involved with this type of post, however;

I read your comments with interest. You wish to support Australian/locals yet you shop at Woolies.
Metcash is indeed owned by OS interests; however it is not that simple. IGA branded stores are in the main owned by your average local Australian.
A quick research would have told you that this company originated in Australia and was eventually brought out by the South African based company Metcash.

Metcash/IGA>D are the suppliers of goods for all of your IGA stores. I reiterate that these stores are, in the main, owned and operated by local Australians. We have to purchase from Metcash, there is no other supplier.

For you, and others, that shop at Woolies/Coles please do not complain when there is no alternative… you are not shopping locally, nor are you supporting your local operator.

How do I know, I own an IGA branded, independently owned supermarket and if you wish for more information please send me an MM.

Rgds
MJ

Hi Michael

I was just trying to say that we try to shop local but sometimes for various reasons we do not. I used that german oowned place as an example because we do not shop there at all. And if possible would do the same to any foreignowned place. But when you only have a certain time on saturday mornings to plan the next fortnights meals, build up a shopping list from that and actually buy it before the sun goes down we do not have time to stuff around on the almighty internet and see who owns what. We just stay away from the ones that we know are foreign owned. eg we do not buy Kraft and prefer Dick Smiths stuff.

Some people who rave about the bargains at that German owned place do not seem to care. As do those who import directly from OS.

At least we try. Each to his own. But if you do purposely shop at OS owned places then don't complain when some iconic alternate shop to the OS one also goes goes fully OS. We also look for those Australian Produce etc tags. Wont shop at Cos_whatever_co either

I have RMW boots and shirts. Maybe made OS but at least purchased local.

Not complaining mate just unhappily accepting the fact that it's a global market.

Phil

I didn't know that. It's all done with emails and my wife does all that.

Catchya

olcoolone posted:

"IGA is a member driven buying group and is owned by the members who are on the board..... not one in particular person or company owns it."

So how does that help the topic. You didn't say whether the board members etc are Australian or OS. Should we shop there or not if we want to "buy Australian"?

Phil

Apologies PJR, I misread your Aldi comment. I slapped myself.

No worries BB. We all do that.

Did I got in a pickle on Thursday???? An obvious young bloke was after help for a Cape York trip and he started with the words "new to 4x4 big trips". Grammar was totally missing and word were out of place and little if any punctuation.

I took that statement as he was new to 4x4 and wanted go on a big trip Cape York and needed advice. I basically said go with someone or stay home until you have some experience. I was quite unnecessarily attacked by one bloke (mountain man) and then others who just followed his lead, believed him and obviously did not even read my post. I did clarify things but people like that wont read it all.

Aaaaagh I was so angry at the obvious ignorance. This young bloke was a bit of a hoon also and needed good advice because he had been "playing in the mud" as young ones do.

So have a good day and don't sweat about it.

Phil

IGA is a part of Metcash's Food and Grocery division. Metcash is listed on the ASX (not sure if it's on another overseas exchange). The owners of Metcash (and therefore IGA) would be the shareholders - retail and institution investors. Profits would be distributed to shareho

You want to ensure some of Metcash's profits remain in Australia, trot down to your local Broker and buy some shares.

T shirts, some dress shirts, some jackets, some fashion accessories and some other low end low cost products are made OS..... they still make their leather belts, oil skins, some jackets boots, most pants and shirts here...... for how much longer is the question.

They went OS to be competitive in a lower cost market first with their T shirts and other stuff followed.

There use to be a member on here called BREW who worked and still does for RM Williams here in SA at Salisbury.

If you have a look on their site they will tell you if it is made in Australia..... if it has no origin of manufacture it's made OS.

Yes you are quite right Olcoolone. You must remain competitive or the consequence is you go out of business.

Yes Al, I think "Yuppie" is still a word......... amongst our age-group anyway. LOL
Will you still serve me if I come in wearing moleskins?

hahaha yeah mate, I'll still serve ya..
I've still got me old moleys too ..

Wow, that is an optimistic view of how it may turn out Alan. I hope you are right. Unfortunately LVMH has a history of moving manufacturing to China and spending most of it's profit on marketing and copyright infringement litigation in the fashion side of their businesses. I hope that 50.1% share stays in place.

As i said, all things being equal, nothing stopping the current owners cutting jobs and sourcing from low cost countries.
Just making a point ownership and source of product are two different issues.