{"id":2609,"date":"2014-08-27T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awtawooltesting.swim.net.au\/news\/victorian-wins-wool-broker-of-the-year-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:19:10","slug":"victorian-wins-wool-broker-of-the-year-2014","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/awtawooltesting.com.au\/zh\/news\/victorian-wins-wool-broker-of-the-year-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian wins Wool Broker of the Year 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">REX Bennett\u2019s innovation and dedication to improving his clients\u2019 bottom line has bagged him the title of Wool Broker of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;\">The Wangaratta-based Elders representative was shortlisted to present at the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia annual general meeting last week, along with Rodwells Horsham\u2019s Brent Flood and Lachlan Sutton from Elders Broken Hill branch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">It was the second time Mr Bennett was shortlisted as a finalist, after being pipped by last year\u2019s winner Greg Tilbrook from Primaries in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">In its third year, the competition aims at fostering and rewarding the innovation and talent of a wool broker with less than 10 years\u2019 industry experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cIt\u2019s certainly a great honour to stand up with the calibre of people on the short list, and it\u2019s a terrific initiative for young people in the wool industry,\u201d Mr Bennett said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">After starting out in 2004 as a trainee at Elders Lara, Victoria, he quickly rose up the tree to become a district wool manager at Elders Bendigo, Vic, and Albury branches, before moving on to his current position at Wangaratta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Mr Bennett is also involved in several key Merino benchmarking and performance testing events, including the Ovens Valley Wether Trial, which he has grown by 35 teams for next year\u2019s incarnation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">On winning the competition, he highlighted the importance of having a mentor in the industry, and noted Elders\u2019 national wool selling manager Simon Hogan had taken all three finalists under his wing early on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u201cA lot of people in the industry are willing to help young people but they don\u2019t always ask, so I think using your initiative and going out and asking questions is a really good thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Following the NCWSBA AGM, Mr Hogan replaced Chris Wilcox as the body\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><em style=\"color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Original Author: Stock &amp; 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