MANAGING DIRECTOR’S REPORT
To the Executive Leadership Team - Tim Penney, Sophie Higgins, Ann Cattelan, Greig Shanley, Yousaf Saifuddin with additional input from Leisa Coupar - thank you for your hard work and absolute passion and dedication to delivering for our Members. During the government mandated COVID restrictions and lockdowns, our essential workers at Wetherill Park have done an amazing job, enduring changed conditions of work, COVID tests and other inconvenience but continued on, such is their support and commitment to Go Vita. We salute them.
that are offered to the Member/shareholder and will be made available to Members on a regular basis, summarising the value in their membership of the group. The long and protracted search for a Common POS solution has led us down many paths but throughout the work we’ve done to date, we’ve learnt more and more about Member requirements and the advantages we may be able to bring to each Member and the group as a whole. We are continually striving to bring new and unique products to our Members, both within our Private Label stable and with other suppliers. We have some exciting plans to for the 2021-2022 FY and plan to announce these at Conference in March. From a compliance and governance point of view, together with the board, we have delivered a new constitution, modernising the company, allowing us to grow and develop as a true Cooperative, adhering to the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) principles. There is still much work to do and many more challenges ahead, which the Board and ELT have recognised in the development of our Strategic Priorities and the subsequent Business Plan and Budget for the year ahead. Before signing off, I’d like to acknowledge two members of the Go Vita family who were lost to us this year. Richard Challinor, a long time member of our warehouse team unfortunately succumbed to illness and John Baker, former Chair and long term director of Go Vita and an industry icon has recently passed. We are indebted for the contribution of these two men to our business and the industry. I’d like the thank the Chair of our Board, Trish Ridsdale for her support and encouragement and together with her calm and reasoned approach has assisted with some of the more difficult challenges we’ve faced this year. Likewise to the other members of the board who have made themselves available to me for counsel and support. Thank you.
The entire Go Vita Group Team, those at Wetherill Park in the warehouse and office, Liz Chan who works so studiously in the background on our TGA compliance matters and Michael McGeorge our NutriVital brand manager, remote in Brisbane, on behalf of the entire group, we thank you for your continued dedication, effort and support of Go Vita. And lastly to all our Members; thank you for your continued support and embrace of the cooperative that is Go Vita.
Clinton Hayes, Managing Director 6 October, 2021.
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