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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2009 (11/12/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2009 (11/12/09)

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."  Eleanor Roosevelt

  • All over the world
  • Biosecurity

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2009 (04/12/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2009 (04/12/09)

"The only sure thing about luck is that it will change."  Bret Harte

  • Biosecurity
  • Innovative marketing

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2009 (27/11/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2009 (27/11/09)

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."  Oscar Wilde

  • Market development: Grapefruit and soft citrus
  • Southern Hemisphere citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2009 (20/11/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2009 (20/11/09)

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."  Aesop

  • Board meetings
  • Grower returns in 2009

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2009 (13/11/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2009 (13/11/09)

"We are like tea bags – we don’t know our strength until we are in hot water."  Sister Busche

  • 2009 review valencia
  • Country of origin promotions
  • Tree census

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2009 (06/11/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2009 (06/11/09)

"We make a living by what we get and we make a life by what we give."  Winston Churchill

  • Country of origin promotions
  • Carbon footprint
  • WTO dispute resolution

 

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2009 (30/10/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2009 (30/10/09)

"The price of greatness is responsibility."  Sir Winston Churchill

  • Greetings from Tokyo

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2009 (16/10/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2009 (16/10/09)

"It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack."  Katherine Hepburn

  • 2009 review navels
  • Southern Hemisphere Congress

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2009 (09/10/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2009 (09/10/09)

"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons."  Alfred Newman

  • 2009 review lemons
  • Citrus grower assets

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2009 (02/10/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2009 (02/10/09)

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."  Barry LePatner

  • 2009 review grapefruit
  • Tonnage off tar

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2009 (25/09/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2009 (25/09/09)

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."  Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Electronic age
  • Exports to Russia: South Africa and Argentina
  • Competitiveness

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2009 (18/09/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2009 (18/09/09)

"Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things."  George Carlin

  • Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • Standards workshops
  • Citrus Marketing Forum

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2009 (11/09/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2009 (11/09/09)

"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."  Bill Crosby

  • Logistics

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2009 (21/08/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2009 (21/08/09)

"Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw."  Murray Mexted

  • Toyota New Harvest of the Year competition

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2009 (14/08/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2009 (14/08/09)

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."  George Burns

  • Transformation administrator
  • Maputo

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2009 (07/08/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2009 (07/08/09)

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore and wrong too often for us to rely on." Patrick Young

  • Biosecurity
  • Foskor

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2009 (31/07/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2009 (31/07/09)

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."  W. Edwards Deming

  • CGA AGM and Board meeting
  • Citrus Coordinating Meeting
  • EU requirements
  • US visits

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2009 (24/07/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2009 (24/07/09)

"Success is the result of making many mistakes, and learning from the experience." 
Winston Churchill

  • CGA Annual Financial Systems (AFS) and AGM
  • China market development

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2009 (17/07/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2009 (17/07/09)

"A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject."  Winston Churchill

  • Certfied nurseries
  • AGM
  • Tonnage off tar (ToT)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2009 (10/07/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2009 (10/07/09)

"In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe."  Michael Jackson

  • Foreign exhange earnings
  • Japan coordination
  • Supermarket investigation

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2009 (03/07/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2009 (03/07/09)

"Watermelon—it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face."  Enrico Caruso

  • Registration of FBO codes
  • Supermarket investigation

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2009 (26/06/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2009 (26/06/09)

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."  Stephen Covey

  • Global Citrus Teleconference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2009 (19/06/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2009 (19/06/09)

"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."  Karl Marx

  • AgriTV
  • USDA Aphis visits
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • FVO visit

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2009 (12/06/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2009 (12/06/09)

"Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements against those of other people."  Nido Qubein

  • AgriTV
  • 2009 Toyota New Year Harvest of the Year competition
  • Domestic market
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Mentorship

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2009 (06/06/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2009 (06/06/09)

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."  Errol Flynn

  • AgriTV
  • Shipments to Japan from Port Elizabeth
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2009 (29/05/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2009 (29/05/09)

"I wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness”, but that doesn't work."  Anon

  • AgriTV
  • Phytosanitary checks
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Maputo
  • Post Harvest Innovation (PHI) Fund: Commonwealth logistics and cold chain workshop

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2009 (22/05/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2009 (22/05/09)

"Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing world, is to correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them."  Hans Zinsser

  • AgriTV
  • June and July - RSA hosts international delegations
  • List of production units prohibited from exporting to CBS sensitive markets

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2009 (15/05/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2009 (15/05/09)

"The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi."  Bill Gullickson

  • AgriTV
  • First ships off to Japan
  • South African cabinet
  • Youth in Citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2009 (08/05/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2009 (08/05/09)

"An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job."  Anon

  • Unemployment
  • Covering costs

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2009 (30/04/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2009 (30/04/09)

"Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on."  Bill Connolly

  • Citrus Black Spot
  • Russian residue requirements
  • Third country exports from Spain

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2009 (24/04/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2009 (24/04/09)

"Our elections are free – it’s in the results where eventually we pay."  Bill Stern

  • Reference material
  • Surviving the recession

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2009 (17/04/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2009 (17/04/09)
  • Department of agriculture website
  • Northern Hemisphere season
  • Chile acces to USA
  • Packing DVD
  • Food and Veterinary Organisation (FVO) visit to South Africa

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2009 (10/04/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2009 (10/04/09)

"If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment."  Dave Allen

  • Global Teleconference
  • Grapefruit to Japan

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2009 (03/04/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2009 (03/04/09)

"America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming."  John Kerry

  • Climate change
  • Packaging material 2009
  • Sterile Insect Technology

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2009 (27/03/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2009 (27/03/09)

"Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the centre of the city."  Oscar Wilde

  • Exchange rates
  • PPECB inspection levies for 2009
  • CGA administered levies
  • Satsumas and lemons

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2009 (20/03/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2009 (20/03/09)

"Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative."  Maurice Chevalier

  • SA Fruit Journal
  • Grower Roadshows and institutional memory
  • Satsumas and lemons

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2009 (13/03/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2009 (13/03/09)

"One drink is enough. Two drinks are never enough."  Sam Knott

  • Logistics
  • Tree census
  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2009 (27/02/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2009 (27/02/09)

"If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."  Aristotle Onassis

  • Japanese inspections
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • CGA
  • Grower Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2009 (13/02/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2009 (13/02/09)

"I’m not telling you it is going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it."  Art Williams

  • Packhouse workshops
  • Variety Focus Groups and Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2009 (06/02/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2009 (06/02/09)

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."  Anton Chekhov

  • Greetings from Fruit Logistica in Berlin
  • CGA Roadshows

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2009 (30/01/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2009 (30/01/09)

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." 
AA Milne

  • Oranje Rivier region
  • Shipping rates
  • CGA Roadshows
  • Fruit Logistica

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2009 (16/01/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2009 (16/01/09)

"By the time that a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong."  Charles Wadsworth

  • Idle time, idle brains
  • Shipping
  • Northern Hemisphere citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2009 (09/01/09)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 01/2009 (09/01/09)

"All I can do is be me, whoever that is."  Bob Dylan

  • Touch-Pause-Engage
  • Global Citrus Telecon - December 2008

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