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pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2010 (23/12/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 50/2010 (23/12/10)

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."  Eric Sevareid

 

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2010 (17/12/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 49/2010 (17/12/10)

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."  Albert Einstein

  • Wise words

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2010 (10/12/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 48/2010 (10/12/10)

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."  Theodore Roosevelt

  • CGA elections
  • Fruit Logistica, Berlin
  • Capespan Group appoints new CEO
  • Russia

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2010 (03/12/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 47/2010 (03/12/10)

"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."  Richard Vaughan

  • Bactrocera Invadens (BI)
  • Continued vigilance

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2010 (26/11/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 46/2010 (26/11/10)

"Laws are like sausages. Its better not to see them being made."  Otto von Bismarck

  • Morpholine
  • Grapefruit promotion feedback
  • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2010 (19/11/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 45/2010 (19/11/10)

"You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life."  Winston Churchill

  • South African Farmer of the Year
  • Grapefruit feedback sessions
  • Interest rate cuts

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2010 (12/11/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 44/2010 (12/11/10)

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."  Thomas Edison

  • Western Cape Farmer of the Year
  • Grapefruit feedback sessions
  • Logistics Focus Group

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2010 (05/11/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 43/2010 (05/11/10)

"It was heartbreak tonight ... We weren't good enough and we got comprehensively outplayed. To our fans down in the Cape, sorry about that, it was just one of those nights."  Schalk Burger

  • Estimates

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2010 (22/10/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 41/2010 (22/10/10)

"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side."

  • Toyota New Harvest of the Year Award

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2010 (15/10/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 40/2010 (15/10/10)

"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."  Louis L’Amour

  • Accept responsibility

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2010 (08/10/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 39/2010 (08/10/10)

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." 
Sir Barnett Cocks

  • Exchange rate

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2010 (01/10/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 38/2010 (01/10/10)

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."  Mahatma Gandhi

  • Turkey gains entry to Japan for grapefruit
  • River BioScience
  • Citrus Improvement Scheme (CIS)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2010 (24/09/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 37/2010 (24/09/10)

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places."
Henny Youngman

  • Global Citrus Conference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2010 (17/09/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 36/2010 (17/09/10)

"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."  Benjamin Disraeli

  • High cube pallets
  • DAFF Integrated Growth and Development Plan 2011-2031

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2010 (10/09/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 35/2010 (10/09/10)

"Let China sleep. For when China wakes, it will shake the world."  Napoleon Bonaparte

  • China

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2010 (03/09/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 34/2010 (03/09/10)

"The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it."   P.J. O'Rourke

  • Informing and educating

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2010 (27/08/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 33/2010 (27/08/10)

"Character is like the foundation of a house - it is below the surface."  Anon

  • Citrus Foundation Block (CFB)
  • Southern Hemisphere exports to the EU

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2010 (20/08/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 32/2010 (20/08/10)

"Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock."  Will Rogers

  • CRI Citrus Research Symposium

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2010 (13/08/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 31/2010 (13/08/10)

"Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you."  Winston Churchill

  • Citrus Grower Development Chamber (CGDC)
  • Citrus Research Symposium

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2010 (06/08/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 30/2010 (06/08/10)

"It is better to be almost right than perfectly wrong."

  • Russia
  • CGA AGM and Board meeting

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2010 (30/07/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 29/2010 (30/07/10)

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." 
Maggie Thatcher

  • CGA AGM and Board meeting
  • PPECB Board
  • 30% discount on your CGA levy

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2010 (23/07/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 28/2010 (23/07/10)

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well mannered."  Voltaire

  • CGA AGM and Board meeting
  • Post-harvest DVDs now also available in Afrikaans

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2010 (16/07/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 27/2010 (16/07/10)

"If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door."  Paul Beatty

  • CGA
  • Global Citrus Conference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2010 (09/07/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 26/2010 (09/07/10)

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose."  Bill Gates

  • Global Citrus Conference (GC)
  • Phytosanitary inspections

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2010 (02/07/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 25/2010 (02/07/10)

"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside."  Wayne Dyer

  • Local market standards
  • Communication pertaining to citrus exports through Maputo
  • Global Citrus Conference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2010 (25/06/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 24/2010 (25/06/10)

"In order to be successful one needs to have luck, technical skill, ability and must be organized."  Carlos Alberto Parreira

  • CGA Key Industry Statistics 2010
  • Electronic Data Interchange takes another step forward
  • International Federation of Produce Standards (IFPS)
  • Global Citrus Conference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2010 (18/06/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2010 (18/06/10)

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day."  Mickey Rooney

  • International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)
  • Hans Noddeboe
  • Global Citrus Conference

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2010 (11/06/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 23/2010 (11/06/10)

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed up in overalls and looks like work."  Thomas A. Edison

  • Competition Commission
  • Grapefruit Campaign
  • Global Citrus Conference (GCC)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2010 (04/06/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 22/2010 (04/06/10)

"If you think you can or you think you can’t – you are right."  Henry Ford

  • Between a rock and a hard place
  • ISPM 15: Marking of pallets

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2010 (28/05/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 21/2010 (28/05/10)

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

  • Transnet strike
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2010 (21/05/10  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 20/2010 (21/05/10

"I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time."  Marilyn Monroe

  • Conventional shipping
  • Transnet strike
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Global Citrus Conference
  • Cara Cara to Japan

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2010 (14/05/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 19/2010 (14/05/10)

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."  William Butler Yeats

  • Transnet strike
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Global Citrus Conference
  • united Arab Emirates (UAE)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2010 (07/05/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 18/2010 (07/05/10)

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." 
Albert Camus

  • Be sure about your planting decisions
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Global Citrus Conference
  • Transnet strike

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2010 (30/04/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 17/2010 (30/04/10)

"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."  Ayn Rand

  • Southern Hemisphere citrus
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2010 (23/04/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 16/2010 (23/04/10)

"Message from London to Iceland - We said "Send CASH, not ASH."" 

  • Global Citrus Teleconference
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Grapefruit promotions

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2010 (16/04/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 15/2010 (16/04/10)

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything."  Charles Kuralt

  • Japan
  • Railing citrus

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2010 (09/04/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 14/2010 (09/04/10)

"I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it."
Charles Schulz

  • Plant Health Measures for 2010
  • Southern Hemisphere citrus
  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2010 (02/04/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 13/2010 (02/04/10)

"Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth."  Anon

  • Citrus volume estimate for 2010
  • Tatse for citrus

 

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2010 (26/03/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 12/2010 (26/03/10)

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."  Mark Twain

  • Citrus Marketing Forum (CMF)
  • Citrus standards
  • Packing material specifications and palletisation protocols
  • Crop estimates

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2010 (19/03/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 11/2010 (19/03/10)

"It is not the strongest that survives, it is the most adaptable to change."  Charles Darwin

  • Grapefruit Market Development - UK
  • Flooding

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2010 (12/03/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 10/2010 (12/03/10)

"I have found out that there is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."  Mark Twain

  • Grower Roadshows
  • Maputo

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2010 (05/03/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 09/2010 (05/03/10)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."  Winston Churchill

  • Special market registrations
  • Grower Roadhsows
  • Training DVDs

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2010 (26/02/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 08/2010 (26/02/10)

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."  Michel de Montaigne

  • Strategic planning
  • Rearranging the deck chairs

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2010 (19/02/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 07/2010 (19/02/10)

"Being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work until one is better."  Samuel Butler

  • Markets
  • Packhouse workshops

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2010 (12/02/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 06/2010 (12/02/10)

"An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do."  Dylan Thomas

  • CLAM, SHAFFE, Freshfel and Global Citrus meetings
  • US access

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2010 (08/01/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 05/2010 (08/01/10)

"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough." 
Earl Wilson

  • Fruit Logistica

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2010 (29/01/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 04/2010 (29/01/10)

"Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."  Albert Einstein

  • Small grower misery

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2010 (22/01/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 03/2010 (22/01/10)

"I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it is not raining."  Groucho Marx

  • UK fruit promotions

pdf CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2010 (15/01/10)  Published Popular

CGA - CEO Newsletter 02/2010 (15/01/10)

"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."  Will Rogers

  • London
  • Tax break
  • What are the competitors doing
  • Cuba

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